Oakley M Hall

"It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered - Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. That's where this extraordinary novel begins. But the story it tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling "cat skinners" of Southern California, driving graders and bulldozers to...

The adventures of a tenderhearted lush who talks to horses, a red-headed stinkpot brat, a dwarf with a traveling pharmacy, a world-weary grizzly named Duke, an army of dark, violent riders, and perhaps even the Devil himself-- all are part of the magic of The Coming of the Kid. In this salty and irresistible fable, Oakley Hall pays homage to the legends of the Old West, serving them up with subversive good humor. This is the story of how the marvelous...

A sheriff is brought in to clean up the crime-ridden town of Warlock.