THE KID DEPUTY - A vintage western story by Will Jenkins/aka Murray Leinster ?with an introduction by one of his daughters. Prison Valley was thought to be uninhabited. The Jailhouse Mine had long been abandoned, and the desolate region of precipitous hills and tortured rocks had long since been forgotten by the citizens of Pinon City. Yet the bullet-ridden body of a man had been found in the stream which flowed through the narrow entrance to the Valley. It seemed that he had been killed near the Mine and the Sheriff had gone to find out more. But after four days he had not returned. The Kid Deputy was determined to find the Sheriff. To the harsh tune of whizzing bullets and the resonant cracks of flashing six-guns he was horrified to find the blood-stained saddle and wounded horse of the Sheriff. The Kid was more than ever determined to run down the killers, and he does so in a thrilling hunt. Bullets fly and men ride hard when the Kid hits the trail. In those days in the old Southwest ? to pin a Sheriff's star to a man's vest was virtually the same as signing his death warrant. The author of ?Fighting Horse Valley? and ?Rustlin' Sheriff? has created in ?The Kid Deputy? a reckless, untamed, completely lovable youth, who romps through a yarn packed with genuine excitement.