Rustlers of Beacon Creek — Max Brand

A quiet lone wolf cowpoke with a cast-iron face arrived in Beacon Creek, and the folks couldn't seen to find a fitting name for him.

Even the sheriff didn't believe his name could be Alfred Percy Lamb. So they dubbed him with a gentle moniker -- “The Lamb.”

The Lamb soon met up with Big Jim Montague, who had a nasty habit of rustling a few cattle here and there. Their meeting was very tough on The Lamb. He was beaten, beaten bad. And he didn't like it.

He vowed to get Montague and break his gang -- and a lot of people got hurt when The Lamb went through an unholy transformation into a cross between a mad tiger and a wild mustang/
Beacon Creek was never the same again!