The Cross Draw Kid (Paperback)

Toby Jenkins, only twelve years old and already orphaned, loses the last of his family in an Indian raid on their covered wagons as they journey from St. Louis to Santa Fe.Toby is rescued by a tough, but noble stranger named Artiemus Gantry. Under A a¬AGantA a¬a sA a¬A tutelage, the boy learns all the skills required in frontier life, including how to out-draw, out-gun and outwit most of his elders. His talents come in mighty handy as he joins in GantA a¬a s quest to avenge the death of GantA a¬a s own son and the loss of his wife and cattle to a mysterious, unscrupulous enemy named Wilson and his band of like-minded thugs. The search for Wilson takes them over all kinds of rugged and dangerous terrain and involves Toby in a number of life and death situations in which he gets to repay the debt he owes Gant for saving him from the Indians.