Larry and Stretch 16: Face the Gun (A Larry and Stretch Western)

The old sheriff had to quit … and three men hungered to inherit the tin star.
That was how it began for Larry and Stretch, the drifting free-swinging trouble-shooters from the Lone Star State. Bayone County was about to elect a new sheriff, and the Texans had their own ideas as to who most deserved the coveted badge.
To steal the horses of the Lone Star Hellions was to invite disaster. Larry and Stretch had a personal score to settle with the obsessed Wes Howland, vengeance-hungry killer who kidnapped a cattle baron’s daughter and held her for ransom.
Fists fly, guns roar, and Larry and Stretch are at it again, sharing the dangers that confronted the deputy destined to become a tin star target.

Leonard Frank Meares (February 13, 1921 - February 4, 1993)
Sydney born Len Meares aka Marshall Grover, published around 750 novels, mostly westerns. His best-known works feature Texas trouble-shooters Larry and Stretch. Before starting to write, Meares served in the Royal Australian Air Force, worked in the Department of Immigration and sold shoes. In the mid-1950s he bought a typewriter to write radio and film scripts. Inspired by the success of local paperback westerns, he wrote Trouble Town, which was published by the Cleveland Publishing Company in 1955.
His tenth yarn, Drift! (1956), introduced Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson. In 1960, he created a brief but memorable series of westerns set in and around the town of Bleak Creek. Four years later came The Night McLennan Died, the first of more than 70 westerns (sometimes called oaters) to feature cavalryman-turned-manhunter Big Jim Rand.