The Homestead Act allowed nesters to move onto open range and build new lives for themselves. But for the cattlemen - and Linc Boormann in particular - it meant giving up land he had previously used, free of charge, to feed and house his vast herds. Boormann’s answer was simple...to run off the nesters by any means necessary, no matter how brutal.

The merciless execution of one such nester brought wandering gunfighters Shane Preston and Jonah Jones to Wolf Valley, and the minute they arrived, open war was declared in no uncertain terms. But all the odds were stacked against them. They were two men against an army of gun-toughs. The local sheriff was in Boormann’s pocket, so they couldn’t expect any help from him.

But that was the thing about Shane and Jonah. No matter how impossible things looked, there was just no quit in them.

No quit at all.

Roger Norris-Green was born in Brighton, UK and emigrated with his parents to Australia when he was a schoolboy. Since leaving Unley High School in South Australia, he has written 140 published westerns under six pen names, plus two under his own name.

Roger had his first western "Apache Crossing" accepted by the Cleveland Publishing Company when he was a young man in his early 20s, just married, living in the Adelaide Hills. The pen name he used for his very first western was Cole Shelton. He went on to write his Shane and Jonah series under that pen name. Many of his westerns have received Best Western of the Month’awards. Roger lives with his wife Elaine in Moonta Bay, South Australia. Although retired, he is still writing.