Renegade's Trail

by Gordon D. Shirreffs

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Gordon Donald Shirreffs was an American author of Western and young adult novels.

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another hard boiled classic from Shirreffs.

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

When I run out of action-oriented frontier fiction by Louis L'Amour, I turn to writers like Gordon D. Shirreffs. He's not as polished as L'Amour, But he can put his heroes into mighty tough situations. In Renegade's Trail, man-hunter Lee Kershaw is pressured into going after a renegade Apache, his former tracking partner, Queho. In the hellish territory by the Colorado River, where no white man could survive, Queho is forted up. . . with hostages. No one has had any success in rooting him out. Kershaw isn't optimistic either. Kershaw's last stand? Or Queho's?

[Alton Motobu · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lee Kershaw is framed for a rape; he must serve out his sentence or find three kidnapped women in the mountains. His adversary is Queho, the notorious renegade. Story has good potential but is not tightly developed. Not gritty and taut as other Lee Kershaw stories.