At the age of eighteen, Oliver James Blackstone was the youngest deputy marshal in the state of Texas, and as the handpicked recruit of Marshal Andrew Lofton, there was no time to ease him into the position. Fortunately, after years spent working in his uncle Jedediah's gun smith shop, there was hardly a firearm forged by human hands that Oliver couldn't expertly wield.
As Marshal Lofton would soon discover, not only was his new deputy deadly accurate,...