Robert Irwin Howard (1906–1936) is a legendary American writer, the “father” of the heroic fantasy genre and, among other things, the author of action-packed Westerns presented in this collection...The famous robbers Laramie brothers robbed a bank, shooting the sheriff in the process, and went to Mexico. Six years later, the last of the brothers, Buck, decides to return to his native land and try to make amends. However, at the entrance to the city, an unknown horseman tries to kill him. In addition, it turns out that a gang of... Laramie brothers is operating in the area! Buck decides to solve this riddle...At the approaches to Wahpeton, local sheriff Middleton meets a Texas shooter, whom he offers to take the place of his assistant. The previous one was killed by people from a gang of “vultures” terrorizing the city. The shooter agrees to defend law and order, not yet knowing how things really are in Wahpeton...