Lee Leighton
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Lee Leighton is a pseudonym of Wayne D. Overholser. Wayne D. Overholser (born in Pomeroy, Washington) was an American Western writer. Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for best novel for Lawman using the pseudonym Lee Leighton. In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award for The Violent Land. Three additional pseudonyms were John S. Daniels, Dan J. Stevens and Joseph Wayne; combinations of his three sons' names. - Wikipedia The author is pictured here (sitting) with his son Steve Overholser (standing) who is also an author.
Books
You'll never hang me
Rick Patterson was still a young man, sitting there in the Elk City jail, waiting for the sheriff to call him to his hanging. He'd packed an awful lot of living into his less than thirty years - until he took on greedy cattlemen from up in Montana and down through Wyoming. But even Rick Patterson couldn't stand up against all that power. Sitting in that jail, waiting for it, Rick knew one thing for sure - they'd never hang him.
Hanging at Pulpit Rock
Pulpit Rock was a mining town where fistfights were entertainment, and the law was whatever foul temper Sheriff Hawk Fremont was in that day. The town had enough of Hawk's brand of justice. When he went off on a fishing trip, everyone knew the only way he would come back was dead. But no-one had counted on Deputy Johnny Johnson.