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"John Hawk was unemployed. His outriding job had ended at Vacaville in Arizona Territory. He has only $100, and isn't going anywhere until he makes more money. He overhears a conversation about a string of horses that are to be exchanged with a bill of sale at Hunter's Spring for a down payment of $100. Hawk seizes his chance, rides to Hunter's Spring, meets the man holding the horses, pretending he's the agent for the man buying the obviously stolen...

This duo combines two book-length Western stories by the incomparable Lauran Paine, marked by his characteristic authenticity and strong characters. In "Outlaw's Hide-Out," drifter Hap Thompson has lived in a secluded valley since robbing a bank made him a wanted man. But his tranquil life is interrupted when he discovers a strange horse and tracks it back to an injured young woman. Wesley Potter is the "Sheriff of Hangtown," and friend to Dick Ruffin,...