Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with one large tear on jacket). The Dedication copy, Inscribed by Robert Carson on the dedication page beneath the printed dedication (which states "To my aunt, Bessie M. Phelps, with love") with an arrow pointing from the dedication: "Dear Bessie: You know, with love, of course. But put that pistol down! Bob." An old-fashioned, rip-roaring adventure story set in the American West following the Civil War." Robert Carson is the author of *The Outsiders, The Magic Lantern, Stranger in Our Midst, Quality of Mercy and My Hero; he also wrote screenplays for The Light That Failed, Men With Wings, Bundle of Joy,* and received an Academy Award for *A Star Is Born.*.