Trailin’! by Max Brand

A classic Western that begins with murder and ends in a blaze of gunfire -- with a stop for romance in between. Anthony Bard, a motherless boy raised on the East coast, hungers for the adventure that only the western life could bring, but when adventure arrives it comes at a terrible price: his father is murdered, leaving Anthony alone in the world. With nothing more to tie him to the East, he sets out on the trail of his father's killer...