Lawman's Choice — Ray Hogan

Shoham was about to become no-man's land--a town without a marshal, and Matt Kollister, caught in a murder frame-up and heading south to save his neck, was a marshal without a town. But was Matt, on the run from the law himself, really the man to clean up Shoham? Even if he could single-handedly stop the gang of bloodthirsty desperadoes that had taken over, he might find he'd saved the townspeople, but put his own neck in the noose instead...