Dead Man's Canyon

by Ralph Cotton

Book Overview

Ralph Cotton's reputation for "gun-smoked believability" (Terry Johnston) and "authentic Western detail" (Wild WestMagazine) continues to grow. In Dead Man's Canyon, Ranger Sam Burrack is hunting the Carly twins-one evil and one good. Now one twin has turned up dead-but which one?

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451213254
• ISBN13: 9780451213259
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.4" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Excellent installment of Cotton's Big Iron series.

Sam Burrack is pursuit of outlaw Blake Carly and his brother Abel. He finds one dead and the other alive, saying he's Abel and his brother Blake tried to take his identity, forcefully. Leaving it ambiguous, Burrack takes the twin into custody, not sure which one he has. Is it truly Abel or is it Blake? A spirited "sporting lady" who they encounter along the way who knew Blake intimately can't even tell who he is. Burrack did not know that Blake Carly had found out the hiding place of a stolen shipment of government gold. That the somewhat down-at-heel outlaw band Carly rode with was after that secret. Meanwhile, Chicago-based gunman Dayton Clifford is also after the secret of the gold. The dangerous and sadistic Clifford is something of a stranger to the territory but he gets by well, in a vicious fashion. A real firecracker of a novel, enthusiastically recommended.