Wayne D. Overholser

Rainbow Rider Wayne D. Overholser

Publisher Marketing: CLASSIC OVERHOLSER!The three short novels in this brilliant collection amply demonstrate the range of imagination and depth of characterization that mark Wayne D. Overholser's Western Fiction. "The Leather Slapper" is set in Colorado, where a company employee is having second thoughts about the way his employers are seizing homesteads. In "The Fence," an Oregon sheriff has to protect his former fiancee after her father and grandfather are brutally murdered. And the title tale features a man battling a family's prejudices to win the hand of the woman he loves. Three very different views of the Old West--but each one a prime example of Overholser at his best! Review Citations: Booklist 10/15/2001 pg. 383 (EAN 9780786227389, Library Binding) Contributor Bio:  Overholser, Wayne D Wayne D. Overholser won three Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and has a long list of fine Western titles to hiscredit. Buckaroo's Code was his first Western novel and remains one of his best. Overholser's Western novels are based on a solidknowledge of the history and customs of the 19th-Century West, particularly when set in his two favorite Western states, Oregon andColorado. Almost invariably, his stories weave a spell of their own with their scenes and images of social and economic forces often inconflict and the diverse ways of life and personalities that made the American Western frontier so unique a time and place in humanhistory.