Duel Decision

About the Book

Duel Decision concerns a young man from Wyoming who, after attaining a college education and beginning a big-city career as a newspaperman, must return to his ranch to settle personal affairs. A two- or three-day chore develops into a chaotic summer of mystery, romance and violence, told from his reportorial viewpoint. Only 24 years old, he matures rapidly in a setting that depicts the later period of the “Wild West” in 1890, where gun fi ghts, cattle rustling, highway robbery, kidnapping and other perilous activities were still occasionally encountered. He becomes fully involved in these unexpected situations and must somehow overcome them to protect his life, his love, and his property.

About the Author

My writing career began in a one-room country schoolhouse in South Dakota where I scribbled short Western stories in little spiral notebooks and charged my classmates a penny or two to read them. My ambition to be an author was delayed by college, Air Force, marriage with children and other distractions. Eventually, while teaching English in Lander, Wyoming, I succeded in writing Duel Decision, using a pseudonym: Milo Grant. It was not published. Years later (2008) I did publish a juvenile novel (Sinks Canyon Mystery) under my own name. In that story, one of the characters spent his spare time writing a rather racy Western novel. It was only natural that I named that character “Milo Grant” and the book he was writing was, of course, Duel Decision! Thus we have a unique situation in which a fi ctional character wrote a book which became real--this one. RLN (Milo Grant)