Buckaroo's Code

by Wayne D. Overholser

Book by Overholser, Wayne D.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1992

About the author

Wayne D. Overholser (born September 4, 1906 in Pomeroy, Washington; died August 27, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado) was an American Western writer.

Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for best novel for Lawman using the pseudonym Lee Leighton. In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award for The Violent Land. He also used the pseudonyms John S. Daniels, Dan J. Stevens and Joseph Wayne.

Reviews

[Rogue-van (the Bookman) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good, basic western story. Characters are well drawn. Cotton is fed up with his money-grubbing boss and hired guns who get paid twice as much as he does. He is also upset about disturbing recent events. His two sidekicks, Bill and Santiam, add a little Laurel-and-Hardy-type levity as Cotton investigates. A couple of love interests could go in several directions. Not easy to predict--keeps you reading.

[Kellyt · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty basic western. Decent but not great. This is the second book of his where I’ve found one of the main female characters to be fairly flighty. To the point that you couldn’t understand why the main male character kept coming back to her. She was so annoying and changeable in her attitudes towards him that you wanted him to just drop her and move on!

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

a waste of reading time, sorry i read it