Cowpoke Justice

Cowpoke Justice, first published in 1941, is a fast-paced western set in 19th century Montana.

William Hopson authored a number of popular cowboy and western-themed novels in the 1930s-40s.

From the dust-jacket: Dud Hardin was coming home to the Montana range country with thirty thousand dollars and a thousand head of cattle acquired along the Rio Grande. And the bitterness of fifteen years rolled away from the salty rannihan as he thought of seeing his father once more ...

But his grimness returned threefold when he discovered that both his father and his father's partner had been murdered, and that the human vultures who had done it were preparing to take over his ranch.

Moreover, an outlaw had been hired to impersonate the long-lost Dud, and accused the real son of dry-gulching his own father.