The Sheriff's Son (Annotated)

The Sheriff's Son follows Roy Beaudry, heir to the name of a dead frontier lawman, as he enters a cattle country governed less by statute than by family feud, rumor, and the quick draw. Raine makes the familiar materials of the Western—rustlers, range rivalries, pursuit, and romantic peril—serve a moral Bildungsroman: Roy's outward adventures mirror his inward education in courage. The style is br...