Washoe County Library System

Young Rich Ames never set out to be a gunfighter. It just happened. Still wet behind the ears, he got tangled up with two shootists who did not like his looks. When the smoke cleared, Ames was still alive. Now every young hopeful in the West was looking to challenge him.

Cottonwoods, Utah. 1871. A woman stands accused. A man, sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, a notorious gunman who's come to avenge his sister's death. It doesn't take Lassiter long to see that this once-peaceful Mormon community is controlled by the corrupt Deacon Tull-a powerful elder who's trying to take the woman's land by forcing her to marry him, branding...