West of Cheyenne — Lee Hoffman

When they told Hawkins to quit, they dug their own graves. Eben Hawkins was a frightened man, running from his past toward an uncertain future. When Hawkins headed west, he thought he could leave the past behind. Free after several years as a prisoner, he just wanted to be left alone. His brother Jacob might have helped, but when Eben finally located him near Cheyenne it was too late. Jacob was dead. Perhaps murdered. What Eben found was his brother's grieving widow, and his brother's homestead threatened by a big rancher who drove settlers off the range. Hawkins could stand a lot of heat, but when a rancher named Starrett and his bully cowboys tried to burn him out of a homestead where he had every right to be, they were tangling with the wrong man. Eben found something else too: a new danger -- and the birth within himself of the strength to meet it face to face.