The Man from Yesterday: A Western Story

By Wayne D. Overholser

A banker worries the son of a robber is out for revenge in this taut Western by the Spur Award–winning author of The Violent Land and Lawman.

Neal Clark was in the gunsmith’s shop when the Shelly gang attempted to hold up the bank. He rushed out of the shop with his rifle, took aim, and fired repeatedly, killing Buck Shelly and Buck’s son Luke. His bullets also struck Ed Shelly, a teenage boy, who had been holding the horses during the heist. Ed Shelly was able to ride away but believed him to be mortally wounded. That's what Neal thought until he received a letter from Ed Shelly, declaring that he would be back someday to settle the score . . .

Eight years later, Neal is married with a young daughter and has taken over the town bank. Cascade City is in the midst of a crisis brought about by promoters of an irrigation project—a project that Neal knows to be an obvious scam and therefore rejects. However, the townspeople and ranchers of the surrounding communities disagree with his decision. Neal can’t walk the streets of his town without overhearing plans of his own lynching. To make matters worse, he receives the first of many more unexpected letters from Ed Shelly, this time vowing revenge not on Neal himself, but on his family. There seems to be nothing the sheriff can do about it, because there are no strangers in town except the two project promoters. And they’re both too old to be Ed Shelly . . .

The Man from Yesterday is a gripping tale and a modern Western classic written by a Spur Award–winning author.

“A tautly constructed story featuring a sympathetic hero and an enigmatic villain.” —Booklist

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jan 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781632200396

Wayne D. Overholser

Wayne D. Overholser (1906–1996) was an American Western writer from Pomeroy, Washington. He won the 1953 Spur Award for Best Novel for Lawman, written under the pseudonym Lee Leighton, and the 1954 Spur Award for The Violent Land.