jimsreadingandstuff 's review for:

4.0

Interestingly for a Western this novel starts at sea, where two shanghaied sailors strike up a friendship. One is badly beaten by the bully of a captain and dying extracts a promise from his shipmate to take care of his ranch in Wyoming along with his wife and daughter. Honoring this promise Rafe Caradec mutinies and rides out to Wyoming to find the ranch deserted and some bad men ruling the roost in the small township of Painted Rock.
Louis L'Amour can tell a yarn, the hero is smart, tough and quick with his guns. The natives are treated sympathetically and there is plenty of action in the usual western manner.