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Able Gate
1992
First Published
4.09
Average Rating
190
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Ruthless badman Barrister McClain has sworn to avenge his brother's death - and that means nailing the hide of Able Gate to the barn wall. But big-name gunfighter and secret Cavalry agent Gate is laying low up Montana way, undercover as the mild-mannered artist Abernathy T. Gatelatch. Even as McClain thunders into town with pistols smoking, the army sends Gate away on a special mission. Publisher's This book has previously been released elsewhere. It has been revised and re-edited for re-release with Wolfpack Publishing.

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Author

Douglas Hirt
Douglas Hirt
Author · 18 books

Douglas Hirt was born in Illinois, but heeding Horace Greeley's admonition to "Go west, young man", he headed to New Mexico at eighteen. Doug earned a Bachelor's degree from the College of Santa Fe and a Masters of Science degree from Eastern New Mexico University. During this time he spent several summers living in a tent in the desert near Carlsbad, New Mexico, conducting biological baseline surveys for the Department of Energy. Doug drew heavily from this "desert life" when writing his first novel, DEVIL'S WIND. In 1991 Doug's novel, A PASSAGE OF SEASONS, won the Colorado Authors' League Top Hand Award. His 1998 book, BRANDISH, and 1999 DEADWOOD, were finalists for the SPUR award given by the Western Writers of America. A short story writer, and the author of twenty-nine novels and one book of non fiction, Doug now makes his home in Colorado Springs with his wife Kathy and their two children, Rebecca and Derick. When not writing or traveling to research his novels, Doug enjoys collecting and restoring old English sports cars. Douglas Hirt is a "fabricator of armchair adventures" who also writes as Jason Elder and Doug Hawkins.

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