BRING ME HIS EARS (by the author of the Hopalong Cassidy Series), Comprehensive Collection of Classic Western Novels (Western Novels Comparable to Louis L'amour westerns)

This is not a Hopalong Cassidy Book, however, Bring Me His Ears is an excellent western. It is one ot the few Mulford wrote that did not involve Hoppy or any of the Bar-20 gang. It begins: The tall, lanky Missourian leaning against the corner of a ramshackle saloon on Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri-the St. Louis of the early forties-turned his whiskey-marked face toward his companion, a short and slender Mexican trader, sullenly listening to the latter's torrent of words, which was accompanied by many and excitable gesticulations. The Missourian shook his head in reply to the accusations of his companion….