William E Vance

In Rawhide, they knew him as Logan Marlowe, and he was trusted and respected as the Town Constable. What he had been before, no one asked -- but Marlowe himself knew that he had been with the Wild Bunch, that he had broken into banks, just as a couple of owl hooters were doing the day he first found himself in Rawhide. He had acted instinctively, because he'd come here to go straight. He had shot it out with the bank robbers just as if he'd been wearing...

Sam Tracker inherited the T-Bar Ranch and in four years increased the herd and took on a partner, Kirby Landers. He and Christine Benton were about to be married. Then, in a single day, all was changed. Tracker came back from a visit to town to find the horses gone, Christine gone, Kirby Landers gone, and their capital had been withdrawn from the bank