《书目》(Booklist)书评
" High Valley," the first of two novellas in this collection, concerns the efforts of Grant Talbot to save the Wagon Wheel Ranch, whose owner, Grant's mentor, has died in a suspicious accident. Big-money interests smell easy pickings as Grant soldiers on. The late Overholser, a three-time Spur Award winner, wrote that story in 1952. More than 40 years later, still fascinated by the themes of loyalty, family obligation, and David versus Goliath, he wrote "Chumley's Gold," its companion here, in which young Dan Larson, distraught by the recent death of his mother, sets out to find a cache of stolen money buried by his bank-robber father. Overholser's consistently character-driven stories helped set the tone for the modern western genre in which regular folk battle the same demons we do today, using not just six-guns but also intelligence, heart, and more than a little self-reliance. A fine addition to western collections. --Wes Lukowsky