Clarence Edward Mulford

The Man From Bar-20: "Cowboy Johnny Nelson, the protege of Hopalong Cassidy, leaves Bar-20 in search of even greater adventure and finds more than he bargained for. He finds a hidden valley between Twin Buttes with more than two hundred CL ranch cattle rebranded as QE. He finds a gang of rustlers out to steal the rest of CL's beef. He finds the country's fastest gunfighter looking to cut him down. What he should have found was a fast way out of that...

Johnny Nelson thought life on the Bar-20 was the best. Even after most of his friends had moved to the Tin Cup in Montana, he'd stayed on the Bar-20 in Texas. When farmers, sheep, barbed wire, and railroad towns made life unbearable, Johnny moved north to join his friends on the Tin Cup. But it seemed his friends were suffering from matrimony disease and were no longer available for Johnny's idea of a good time. Johnny figured he'd have to get married...