Title: Noose At Big Iron
Description: Author's first published Western. Written for young people to old-as-rocks Western fans.
A girl with a secret past accidentally kills a powerful ranch owner's son, when he attacks her in the livery stable. Socrates Smith, who also has a secret past, has to intervene to save her life...while getting his head busted by her and shot during an ambush in the process. It's a battle to overcome the past, while trying to survive the present, in hopes of having a future.
Time periods: 1880's