Trail Town

In Trail Town by Ernest Haycox, Sheriff Dan Mitchell tries his absolute best to keep the peace in the trail town he grew up in. Excerpt: "WEARING the star, Dan Mitchell was a man whose tenure on living expired and was renewed from hour to hour, and since certainty was a thing he could never have in the major run of his life he prized it greatly and made the small details of his day into a pattern that seldom varied. Exactly at seven, he came to Webber's House for breakfast, occupying the table in the far corner, facing the door."