Five Star First Edition Westerns - Bitter Creek

Bitter Creek is the story of prospector and mine owner, California Watson, who is mad at the world. Nearly everyone he has known has taken advantage of him. Rancher Sol Barksdale warns Cal to stay away from his daughter. The hired stock detective, Wayne Crump, takes pot shots at him. Bill Beagle, town marshal, tries to arrest Cal on a false charge of holding up a stagecoach. Cal's trail leads him into Death Valley where he finds Barksdale's stolen cattle, but before he can do anything about it, he is framed and charged by Barksdale with cattle rustling.

Dane Coolidge was born in Natick, Massachusetts, but moved early to northern California. His background as a naturalist is a trademark in his Western fiction. Coolidge died in 1940.