Kinsman of the Gun

Cheyenne, 1888. Ezra McPherson is a gunfighter who cannot escape the past, and Luke Tisdale is a young doctor whose brother has been murdered. Marcus Stokesbury and Eloise Endicott are journalists who are intrigued by the mystery surrounding Ezra. Together with Richard Swearingen, a cattle baron who seeks to establish a kingdom in Wyoming, and Andrew Swearingen, a man who has killed but who is now willing to take an extraordinary step to prevent bloodshed, they all become embroiled in a story of love, greed, betrayal and sacrifice.

Walton Young, the author of Days of Dust and Heat, is senior professor of English at Truett McConnell University in Cleveland, GA, where he teaches creative writing (fiction), Southern literature, and twentieth-century American literature. He received his PhD in English from the University of Georgia. He and his wife, Suzanne, live in Sautee-Nacoochee in the North Georgia mountains.