The Wild Bunch

In The Wild Bunch by Ernest Haycox, Frank Goodnight rides through Wyoming with a vengeance towards Wild Bunch, where hides the man who broke his sister's heart. Excerpt: "GOODNIGHT crossed the river at a ford whose bottom sands were scarcely covered by water and made noon camp under the shade of a lonely willow. The heat was a burning pressure upon the gray and burnt-brown desert and heat rolled back from the punished earth to make thin, unseen turbulence all around him. The smell of the day was a rendered-out compound of baked grass and sage and bitter-strong dust."