A Gunfight Too Many

<p>Sheriff Sam Hammond was nudging fifty conscious of his years and sometimes wondering just why he'd become a lawman in the first place. Then the troubles really began.</p><p>First he narrowly escaped with his life after a moonlight gun battle with a trio of rustlers. Meanwhile abrasive range detective Herb Hopkirk had ridden into town. Gun-handy Hopkirk shot dead a rash cowpoke crippled Sam's young deputy Clint Freeman and pestered Miss Sarah pretty daughter of rancher John Snyder.</p><p>A man-hungry widow and a bunch of newspaper cuttings about a mysterious bank robber dubbed Dick Slick added to Sam's headaches. Was it time for him to quit the peace-officer business before he wound up dead?</p>