ED STOWERS. Ride a Lonely Wind. Lauric Press. 264 pages; paperback, ebook, $15, lauricpress.com
Sick of soldiering, tired of endless cattle drives, Matt Brannigan heads to Fort Griffin, Texas, intending to start a new life. Surviving a Comanche attack, Brannigan ends up as foreman for Christina Murie’s ranch, taking on renegade Indians, town gamblers, hired gunmen, unethical lawmen and a lynch mob amidst the backdrop of the Red