Lone Hand Author:T. V. Olsen These eleven stories are titled by a short novel written in the late 1950s,Lone Hand, in which a gunfighter tries to live down his past. Another, "Vengeance Station," deals with a devastating feud and its climax in a desert confrontation. Like all of Olsen's fiction, these stories are character-driven: although his plots are among ... more »the best, it is his people that provide the richness, texture, and depth of emotion that grip his readers.