The Desert Pilot — Max Brand

The town of Billman was known for its lawlessness, but Reverend Reginald Ingram arrived with high hopes to defeat the power of the saloons and the gunsmoke. It was when young Astrid Vasa introduced him to the idea of sticking up for himself against a man with blood in his eyes that Ingram found he might have to make a choice between his peaceful ways…and survival.