Legend of a Gunfighter by Robert Vaughan

Legend of a Gunfighter by Robert Vaughan

In 1885 Buck Elliot, already a legendary gunfighter, comes to Canyon Diablo, Arizona Territory, to aid a friend and several small, but honest ranchers who must deal with Nigel Smythe, a titled Englishman who is trying to build a fiefdom under the Mogollon Rim. Smythe has hired as many gunfighters as cowboys, using them to force the smaller ranchers out of business, but Buck who has been commissioned an Arizona Ranger by the governor, organizes the small ranchers to defend their rights. In a direct confrontation between Buck, his friends, and the outlaw army of Smythe, good prevails over evil.

A little more than forty years later Buck Elliot, a still-living iconic gunfighter of the Old West, comes to Hollywood to be a technical consultant for LEGEND OF A GUNFIGHTER, a movie about his life. He discovers that the star of the movie, Clive Malone, is more interested in playing himself than he is in portraying the true story. Buck enlists the aid of Ernest Haycox, author of the book from which the movie is to be taken, and they try to get the studio to bring the picture more into line with the truth.

Robert Vaughan has been on the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller lists under his own name and various pseudonyms. He's earned a slew of honors, including the SPUR Award for Best Western Fiction for Survival. Vaughan earned the Readwest President's Award for Excellence in Western Literature and was inducted into the Authors' Hall of Fame. Vaughan lives on the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a distinguished and retired army lieutenant who served three deployments in Vietnam.