The Prodigal Gunfighter — Lewis B. Patten

Slade Teplin was said to have killed sixteen men, and he was not yet thirty. Today Teplin was returning home. The little town of Cottonwood Springs wasn't preparing a friendly reception. They waited and wondered -- why was Slade coming back after all these years? Was he really going to get Johnny Yoder for trying to win the love of Slade's estranged wife -- the woman Slade rejected but would not give up to anyone else? One thing was certain. Before Slade left town, he was bound to kill again!