Rick Proctor wasn't a killer. But his father was. And now old Jay Proctor was out to kill a man who had once been his friend and the father of the girl Rick planned to marry. That's when Rick strapped on his Colt. He didn't relish gunning for his own kin, but he didn't have a choice - two of his father's men had already come to kill him...
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.