Book excerpt: Hell on high red wheels! Cotton Drennan had packed a good many smoky years into a short span of time. For him, death lurked in shadowy alleys, and he watched them carefully always. He owed his life to that care—and to a fast and accu­rate gun. The Broken Ring Ranch was the biggest on the range and get­ting bigger—with the help of a gun-heavy crew. And nobody but Cotton Drennan seemed to give a damn about the injustice of Broken Ring's big grab. Cot­ton had been through range wars before, but never with the odds quite so great against him—never with so few on his side. BUCKAROO'S CODE All He Asked Was An Even Draw Three-time Winner of the Spur Award Wayne D. Overholser