Showdown in Gun Town, Lauran Paine
Showdown in Gun Town, Lauran Paine
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Showdown in Gun Town

Author: Lauran Paine

Narrator: Alex Boyles

Unabridged: 4 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2020

Categories: Fiction, Western


Synopsis

An exciting Western from the author of Lockwood and Dead Man’s CañonWalt Hodge had delivered eighty horses to Whipple Barracks for the army, and he wasn’t in a big hurry to get home. He traveled down the Saginaw Mountains and into the upland cow country of Sunflower, Arizona, seeking only a cold glass of beer, food, and a bed for himself, along with feed for his horse. He should have listened and turned around when he asked the hostler what was going on and was told: “Trouble, mister. Bad trouble.”After he had a drink, surrounded by silent cowmen, he discovered why the town of Sunflower was so unusually quiet and empty. He had walked into the middle of an emerging range war over water rights in the middle of a blistering summer.Being mistaken as a one of Jim Bricker’s B-Back-to-Back men annoyed Walt, but being knocked out by a Bricker rider, who said Walt was a Mike Weedon man, was just more than he could take. Then he met Bricker’s daughter. It doesn’t take long for Hodge to find himself in the middle of things, once he is blamed for the killing of a Bricker man.By the time the war was over three men would be dead, the town of Sunflower would find its self-respect, and a jailhouse would be full of demoralized cowmen.

About Lauran Paine

Lauran Paine (1916–2001), with more than a thousand books to his name, remains one of the most prolific Western authors of all time.

About Alex Boyles

Alex Boyles has been acting pretty much his entire life. He got his BA in theater–acting/directing performance from CSU Long Beach and his MFA in acting performance from Ohio State University. He started narrating audiobooks in 2019 and hasn’t looked back!


Reviews

Goodreads review by Francia on February 07, 2024

This was a good western book. I really appreciate the care the author puts into writing the characters and establishing the tension between them.The town people were were written well and it was engaging for the reader to see them stand up to the gang that was terrorizing their town in the end. My c......more


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“Paine has published several of the finest Westerns of the past decade, stories that even non-Western readers can enjoy.” Kirkus Reviews, praise for the author