Riders of the Skull

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Jord Blaine, one of the riders for the Skull outfit, falls out of favor with the foreman and goes to work for a rancher named Carlson, building fence with a young man named Jimmy Baker. Blaine and Jimmy finish the job and go their separate ways. Blaine finds work with an outfitter who is going to take out a group of deer hunters. During the hunting expedition in the mountains, the outfitter is killed by a shot that seems to be intended for Blaine. The trip ends in disorder. The Skull riders come for Blaine, and Blaine kills the Skull foreman when the foreman tries to ambush him. Blaine heads for town and learns that Jimmy will now be a rider of the Skull.

Author Bio

John D. Nesbitt is the author of more than forty books, including traditional westerns, crossover western mysteries, contemporary western fiction, retro/noir fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He has won the Western Writers of America Spur Award four times--twice for paperback novel, once for short story, and once for poem. He has won the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award twice--once for novel and once for short story. He has been a finalist for the Spur Award twice, the Peacemaker five times, and the Will Rogers Medallion Award seven times. He has also received two creative writing fellowships with the Wyoming Arts Council--once for fiction, once for nonfiction--and he has won the fiction award four times with the Wyoming State Historical Society. Recent works include Coldwater Range and Silver Grass, frontier novels with Five Star. Visit his website at www.johndnesbitt.com