Outlaw Author:Charles G. West Some men chose to live outside the law. — Matt Slaughter and his older brother joined the Confederacy only when war came to the Shenandoah Valley. But with the cause lost, they desert for home-only to find that swindlers have taken their farm. When his brother accidentally kills a Union officer, Matt takes the blame. Facing a sham trial and a noo... more »se, he escapes to the west, living as an outlaw who neither kills for pleasure nor steals for profit. But there are other men who are cold-blooded and have no such scruples...« less