William MacLeod Raine (1871-1954) is the author of such popular western adventure novels as A Texas Ranger (1910), Yukon Trail (1917) and A Man Four-Square (1919). Raine's fast paced plots and varied settings are the backdrop for gun toting cowboys, tough marshals, mean outlaws and the language particular to the western frontier. In Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West (1921) Dave Sanders becomes personally involved in the bitter feud between honest Emerson Crawford, boss of the D Bar Lazy R outfit, and Brad Steelman, a crooked ranch owner who has a gang of desperadoes. Cattlemen are becoming aware of the riches to be had from drilling for oil. The old feud between Crawford and Steelman comes to a head the night Brad's gunmen steal down upon Crawford's most promising oil strike.
