Deputy Sheriff Dan Youngerman has a problem. For seven years, he has been accepted by the citizens of Dobeville, Kansas. All that time he has successfully hidden the fact that he is the brother of the leader of one of the West's most feared bands of outlaws. Now he's been warned of a raid by his brother on the town where he is the law . . .
Lewis Byford Patten was a prolific author of American Western Novels, born in Denver, Colorado. Often published under the names Lewis Ford, Len Leighto and, Joseph Wayne.
A brother of a notorious gang family is the deputy of a western town which doesn't know his connection, even though he kept the same name as the gang. Background checks weren't a thing then.