Latigo

Son of a trapper and an Indian princess, Latigo vowed he would never again draw blood after the carnage of the Civil War. Then he returned to find his home a smoldering ruin and his folks forever silenced, murdered by a ruthless railroad tycoon and his hired guns. That was the day Latigo hit the trail to vengeance, the day his guns came roaring back to life … the day a legend was born in the Montana hills … Dean Owen aka Dudley Dean McGaughey was a prolific writer of pulp westerns and popular novels, who published over one hundred books during his lifetime. Dean Owen, the pseudonym he most often used, was then a full-time freelance writer from the early 1950s until his death. His first stories and novels were westerns, and he continued to write them throughout his career. Some of his more notable works were novels adapted from the television shows "Bonanza," "Heck Ramsey," and "The Rebel," as well as a science fiction/popular novel taken from the movie "Reptilicus." He also wrote "The Bride of Dracula" a movie tie-in for the Hammer film starring Peter Cushing. The end of the American Civil War brought despair to many. That included Latigo Cantrell. His dream of being reunited with his folk shattered when they are murdered. Now he has to turn his skills to seek them out and bring them to justice - the frontier way.