"hashknife" Philanthropist

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Hashknife Hartley and his easygoing partner Sleepy ride into Badger City with little more than dry wit, hard nerves, and a lingering grudge against the elusive Toothpick Thompson. What begins as a restless cow-puncher's roam turns quickly violent when they're ambushed near the river, and the pair answer gunfire with cool, quick force. In a cattle town where the Bar 80 has become the JHE, stock is vanishing, and Sheriff Bill Ells and prosecutor Abe Spooner seem to carry more menace than law, Hashknife and Sleepy find themselves in the middle of a widening web of rustling, corruption, and hidden influence. With razor-edged humor and an instinct for trouble, Hashknife refuses to be bullied, bought off, or pushed aside. He tangles with the town's power brokers, humiliates a drunken bully, survives an ambush, and finally turns the tables on the sheriff and Spooner themselves. But the real mystery lies deeper, in the troubles surrounding old man Crosby, his daughter Molly, the Lazy U, and the men profiting from fear and false accusations. Tough, funny, and fast-moving, this is a frontier tale of cattle-country justice, outlaw suspicion, and two riders who never stay out of trouble for long.