The Long, Long Trail

Published: 1921

The Long, Long Trail (1922, First published in Western Story Magazine in six parts under the name George Owen Baxter) 

This is a story about desperate men and the gun code they live by. Since Jess Dreer avenged his father's murder, he’d been a lone outlaw eluding Sheriff Caswell. But a woman in need of help changes all of that when Jess sets out to find and destroy a hired gunslinger. Jess Dreer was an outlaw on the run, living by a gun code and trying his best to elude the Sheriff. When a woman enters his life, he reconsiders his future as a gunslinger.