Dan Quaid was no different from most menโyet at forty he left a safe, comยญfortable farm in settled country, to push out to a rawhide town and a mountain ranch that everyone in town warned him he'd never live to keep.
But Dan had the kind of guts that setยญtled the Westโhe didn't know when to quit in the first placeโand espeยญcially when he was told he couldn't stay.
One of America's greatest Western storytellers,ย Wayne D. Overholserย was born September 4, 1906 in Pomeroy, Washington and died August 27, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado. Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for best novel forย Lawmanย using the pseudonym Lee Leighton. In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award forย The Violent Land. He also used the pseudonyms John S. Daniels, Dan J. Stevens and Joseph Wayne.
Learn more about the author on his website:ย www.waynedoverholser.