Shotgun Marshal

by Will Cook

From back of book:

Bonanza was a gold town...with a highly organized gang that was making a fortune out of the miners, and who weren't about to give up without a fight, the kind that had already cost two dead marshals, one dead mayor and a baker's dozen of dead citizens... When Adam Collier was appointed mayor he knew he had one good marshal to side with him--but he hadn't figured he'd be fighting his own best friends...

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

William Everett Cook was born in Richmond, Indiana in 1922 and died in 1964. He began writing for publication in 1952 for Popular Library. During his short life Cook was a soldier, commercial aviator, deep-sea diver, logger, peace officer, and writer of western and adventure novels and stories. His hobbies included sports car racing, sailing, judo, and barbershop singing. His pseudonyms include Wayne Everett, James Keene, Frank Peace, and William Richards.

William Everett Cook was a writer of western and adventure novels and stories. Collection consists of correspondence (273 letters), manuscripts for his novels, short stories, and one novella, and an extensive collection of western pulp fiction containing short stories by Cook.

Reviews

[Westerns4ever · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not your average, run-of-the-mill western. It has an original plot and good writing. The only downside of this book was the cussing; there's too much for my taste, but that's just me.