Tag Archives: Wayne D. Overholser

Book Review: Hearn’s Valley

The Author Wayne D. Overholser has written several western stories that I have enjoyed and submersed my self into. This story is about how a young man felt that his inheritance was stolen but he was too young and inexperienced to get it so he left. Time passes and the two sworn enemy’s are brought [...]

Book Review: The Bitter Night

This western story revolves around one night at a stage stop where supper is served. The owner is Susan Girard and Glen Logan a business owner in Gold City visits her for their weekly date. Glen has repeatedly ask Susan to marry him but she has continually put him off because she did not want [...]

Book Review: The Fence

This is a western story written about that big ranching family that has had the power and respect it always wanted but a chink in the armor results in a disappearance of these things and the death of the patriarch and his son.  Everything is thrown up in the air. The sheriff has to find [...]

Book Review: Rainbow Rider

This is a short story written by Wayne D. Overholser about a small town marshal who had tamed his town but wouldn’t leave because he had fallen in love with the banker’s daughter. He wanted to marry her and prove that he wasn’t a Rainbow Rider.  The pressure her aunt was placing on her and [...]

Book Review: The Leather Slappers

Book Review: The Leather Slapper  One story out of three. This is a western short story in a trio of stories from the book Rainbow Rider by Wayne D. Overholster. This story is about a gunman who is working for a large land company working out of northern New Mexico and it moves to press [...]