Richard Matheson

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    ,John Benton was one of the toughest men ever to wear a Texas Ranger badge.Â  But eight years ago, in August 1871, he hung up his guns for good.,
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    ,Or so he hoped.,
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    ,Then young Robby Coles challenged him to a fight over some imagined slight to the boyâ€™s sixteen-year-old girlfriend.Â  At first Benton tried to laugh off the affair.Â  Why, the boy was little more than a child.Â  But rumors and gossip spread like wildfire through their dusty frontier town and soon enough the entire community seems to be goading both men towards a fatal confrontation neither one truly wants.,
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    ,Benton doesnâ€™t want to kill again.Â  Robby is secretly terrified of facing the legendary gunfighter.Â  Yet, with both menâ€™s honor on the line, is there any way to avoid a duel to the death?,
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Westerns,Fiction
The Gun Fight