The last buffalo
By: Ralph Hayes
Series: A black horse western; Black horse western
Publisher: Robert Hale; The Crowood Press; Robert Hale Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780719805936
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; Fiction
Description: Strong winds of change are sweeping across the Great Plains of the Old West. There has been an invasion of reformers and prohibitionists, and the big herds of buffalo and other game animals are slowly disappearing. In the small Kansas town of Sulphur Creek, the saloon owners have hired gunslingers to intimidate the reformers and young Jock Sumner is caught right in the middle. As ward of Town Marshal Uriah Tate, Sumner is hot property but a hunter named O'Brien, stopping off in town, learns the boy and the town are in trouble and decides his help is needed. In a town full of hired killers there is only one man who can save a young boy's life, and prevent a real war from tearing the town apart...