Publication: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951, Garden City
First edition. Fine, bright copy in bright, colorful, dust jacket. Louis L'Amour writing as Tex Burns. On the trail to the lawless town of Seven Pines, Hopalong discovers two men ... one dead, the other badly wounded. Returning with medical help, Hoppy finds the wounded man has been shot through the temple. Who would commit such a crime? To find out, he hires on at Bob Ronson's Rocking R Ranch. There he learns that more than a thousand cattle have been run off by men keeping one scheming eye on the ranch and the other on the monthly stagecoach shipments of gold. Hopalong is determined to stop those responsible. An exceptional copy.
Inventory Number: 24536