Lone Star Valiant

Stretch Emerson plays a lone hand!It had never happened before, but it was happening now, and the taller Texan just had to face up to it. Larry Valentine was in jail, facing a trumped-up charge of murder and theft.One of the Lone Star Hellions imprisoned, wounded and helpless. The other on the loose, and ready to fight every outlaw in northern Nevada for the sake of proving his partner's innocence. This was the situation that threw Finn County into uproar.Like it or not, Stretch had to assume the role of hero, and impersonates Wild Buck Kelsey, the star of Rowdy Rufe's Frontier Show, with hectic and sometimes hilarious consequences … but most of all, to the ultimate downfall of eight unscrupulous enemies! Leonard Frank Meares was an Australian writer of western fiction. He wrote over 700 Westerns for the Australian paperback publishers Cleveland and Horwitz using the pseudonym "Marshall McCoy", "Marshall Grover" "Ward Brennan" and "Glenn Murrell". Leonard Frank Meares was an Australian writer of western fiction. He wrote over 700 Westerns for the Australian paperback publishers Cleveland and Horwitz using the pseudonym "Marshall McCoy", "Marshalll Grover" "Ward Brennan" and "Glenn Murrell". Among his most famous characters were "Larry & Stretch", Larry Valentine and Stretch Emerson. In the Nordic countries they were known as "Bill & Ben". He introduced Larry and Stretch in Drift!, his tenth books for Cleveland.