The rawhiders / Ray Hogan.

Matt Buckman, a young cowpuncher, is headed for Dodge City to see the sights, but on the way he finds trouble instead. First he's caught in Indian country and ambushed by a band of renegade Kiowas. More trouble follows after he's rescued by Cud Hooker and his gang of roughneck rawhiders. Cud and his boys spend less time rawhiding than they do robbing - and they don't like leaving any witnesses behind. They offer Matt a choice: join the outfit, or join the dead. Matt bides his time - out in the hard-scrabble wilderness, far from the law, he's an unwilling accomplice as the gang ruthlessly stuff their saddlebags with silver. But when they shoot down a young woman's father in cold blood, and threaten to do that and more to her, Matt decides to take a stand, with six-guns blazing...