Cliff Farrell

This is an excellent western that incorporates a mystery and a search for identity. Lee Jackson is an outcast in the town of Punchbowl. He may be a full-blooded Comanche or the lost sun of a murdered rancher. Either way, he's hated by all, from his Comanche father to his rancher stepfather. The only persons he trusts are the ex-slave Kink and, grudgingly, Clemmie O'Neill, who has identity issues of her own. The search for self-identity is frought with danger from the local ranchers and show more complicated by a prediction that his Comanche father would lie dead at Lee's feet. Farrell tells a western tale that seems almost Dickensian in its concern with the hero's past and identity. show less

A man returns home from South America with a fortune to clear his family's reputation. The theft of the fortune pits him against the local ranchers who remember his father's treachery and a gang of train robbers who have amassed a fortune of their own.