The Showdown Author:Peter Dawson Jack Estes, Maverick. He didn't give a hoot about his old man's ranch, the biggest and richest in the country. He liked to hang around town with the most disreputable gang of no-goods -- playing cards, drinking. Just plain no-good, everybody said. Then nineteen-year-old cousin Jessie came to the ranch, pert and pretty as a yearling heife... more »r, and vicious Blecha Maxan led an Indian massacre plus a raid on the Estes ranch. Jack figured he'd better get his crowd sobered up, and rode out looking for trouble, and trouble came a-running to meet him« less