To Become a Lawman
This is a coming of age story of Jim-Bob McClain, Sheriff Mont Naylor's young deputy. Elmer Kelton does an excellent job in depicting what it might be like to be a young in-experienced man placed into such a demanding position as a law officer, such as when his trouble to clear the saloon of a couple of drunks and the Sheriff has to lend a hand; but later Jim-Bob is determined to face three killers alone.....Good book! by one of the top writers of western fiction, Elmer Kelton.
