Draft:Journal of the Gun Years

Journal of the Gun Years is a western novel by Richard Matheson published in 1991. The protagonist, Clay Halser, is a legendary gunslinger and hero of the American Civil War, who is shot and killed in the dining room of the Silver Lode Hotel in Colorado. A man named Frank Leslie collects Clay's journal, and the rest of the book is made up of choice excerpts from the journal, as well as commentary from Frank Leslie, which follows the gradual decline of Clay Halser's mental state from a confident legend, to a paranoid man.