The Lonesome Quarter
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Her name was Vera Mae, and she had been around these dusty tank towns too long—working the two-bit rodeos and cozying up to suckers, like this fat tourist in the bar.
Oh God, she thought, I can con him and ditch him by nine-thirty, but what then? Sit in a hotel room. Get drunk and pass out. I'll be an old bag before I'm thirty.
That was Vera Mae: fed up and ripe for trouble, when a lean ex-bronc rider named Lonnie drifted in from the desert...
Richard Wormser
Born in New York on 2 February 1908, RICHARD EDWARD WORMSER graduated from Princetown University to become an award-winning writer of fiction, under his own name as well as a number of pseudonyms. Early in his career, Richard was employed as an editor at, and writer for, the famous publishing house Street & Smith. In the late 1930s he moved to California to be a rancher, and in the early 1940s served as a mounted patrolman with the US Forest Service. Richard passed away in Arizona in July 1977.
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