Gene Shelton

How the West Was Lost Gene Shelton

The Legends are Back Buck Hawkins and Dobie Garrett, fresh off the outlaw trail and cleared of all trumped-up charges against them, are back doing what they do best as ordinary cowboys on the Singletree Ranch in the Texas Panhandle, happy as a pup with a buttered biscuit. But they can't escape their largely unearned reputations as deadly, cold-eyed gunmen, living legends of the Old West. Buck and Dobie's contentment ends when a stranger rides up to Singletree headquarters looking for the pair. He makes them an offer - a job that pays more money than they ever dreamed, a chance to earn enough for a ranch of their own. The only catch is that they have to agree to be Special Range Marshals in Necesario, the toughest town in Texas, where rustlers, back-shooters and a brewing range war await them-and they still can't shoot straight ...