Frank Bonham fu un prolifico autore celebrato per i suoi western e romanzi per giovani adulti. Le sue opere per giovani, ambientate in contesti urbani duri e realistici, definirono gli anni '60 e attinsero spesso alla sua vasta esperienza con le riviste pulp. Bonham catturò abilmente l'essenza cruda della vita, sia nella frontiera che nelle strade della città. La sua capacità di creare narrazioni avvincenti che risuonavano con autenticità gli assicurò un posto duraturo nella letteratura americana.
When Rufus Henry gets out of work camp for Grand Theft Auto, he has only one place to go--back to Durango Street. Almost right away, he gets on the wrong side of the Gassers, has to join the rival Moors, and starts running for his life. Years ahead of its time, Durango Street, like The Outsiders, shows that gang violence is, sadly, nothing new--and nothing glamorous. "A starkly realistic, convincing, well-written teen novel." School Library Journal
Jim Harlan had to rawhide a railroad across some of the wildest country of New Mexico, but the cattlemen of the Magdalena Basin had an even tougher job. They had to try to stop him! What Harlan knew about railroading was slung from his belt, but it was more than enough.
Searching for a missing man in the Arizona territories was a job Henry Logan was eager to take. His lungs, damaged from malaria during the Spanish-American War, could use a rest. But when the people of Nogales got the mistaken impression that he was a gunman instead of a gunsmith, Logan suddenly found himself the target of jeers -- and bullets.
Hrdiny dobrodružného románu amerického autora jsou kluci různé barvy pleti, kteří se snaží vyřešit trampoty se zchátralou klubovní budovou svérázným způsobem, v němž má hlavní roli kocour. Se slovníčkem výslovnosti. Pro čtenáře od 11 let.