Here are three of Walt Coburn's finest short novels. In He Rides Alone, Bruce McTavish's confrontation with himself and his wild ways takes place on the frontier in Arizona, where he has fled from a possible charge of murder in Montana. The setting for The Badlands Buckaroo in northern Mexico, where the followers of Brother Matthew are seeking the promised land. Brother Matthew's background is in larceny and murder, but he's very convincing in his present guise of religious prophet. Coffin Ranch is a tale of the Wild Bunch, some of whom Walt Coburn knew. Blamed for a train robbery in Missouri while they were in South America, the Bunch, some of whom Walt Coburn knew. Blamed for a train robbery in Missouri while they were in South America, the Bunch comes back when a dying man's confession reveals the hiding place of the loot.