A Man Four-Square (Old West Classics)

Billie Prince is a man who can be counted on. A cowpuncher—later lawman—who stands by his friends and his employer Homer Webb. When Webb is murdered, Prince’s life takes a sudden turn. Billie Prince’s best friend is Jim Clanton, slight of build but fast on the draw. When they meet Clanton is on a quest to right a tragic wrong committed against his family. Each comes under the spell of two women on opposite sides of a deadly range war. A MAN FOUR-SQUARE, by William MacLeod Raine is a story inspired by the times of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County Wars. Its setting is Washington County, New Mexico. It was a time and place when “To kill a man on the frontier then in fair fight was a misdemeanor. To steal a horse was a capital offense.” The story is fiction, but the telling is authentic. This is one of the better of many fine stories of the old west by the master storyteller William MacLeod Raine.