Title: The Rider of Lost Creek
Author: Louis L'Amour
Date: 1976
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0-553-25771-4
Length: 153 pages
Quote: "We're wild, and we belong to the far, open country."
Matt Davis didn't want other ranchers close enough to need fences. Lance Kilkenny, a feral gunslinging type, becomes his ally long enough to have a few violent adventures. At the end of the book Kilkenny has a partner with a settled business, but he rides away making the classic cowboy-movie-hero excuse.
Not my genre, but these novels appeal to a lot of people and everyone has to admit that L'Amour researched the parts of the nineteenth-century "West" about which he wrote, thoroughly. No hoop skirts in 1880, no railroad through Texas in 1840. Men like Kilkenny were fewer and lasted less time in real life than they do in fiction, but they existed, and people find them interesting, so why shouldn't L'Amour have written fiction about them.
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