Summer of the gun
(Large Print)

Originally published: Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1978.

BE NOT AFRAID OF ANY MAN, NO MATTER WHAT HIS SIZE -- WHEN DANGER THREATENS, CALL ON ME -- I WILL EQUALIZE. Those words -- etched on the long barrel of the Colt they called The Redeemer -- would ring as loud and true as the gun itself in the ears of those who dared to challenge the McCalisters. When a pack of Confederate renegades came thundering in looking for captives, they made easy prey of the McCalister women. But they hadn't reckoned on Bubba, the 13-year-old feist of a boy who set out to save his mother and sister. Mounted on a brave old horse, armed with luck, guts and a rusty Walker Colt nearly half his size, a boy could do a hell of a lot of equalizing.