Nedler PalazNedler Palaz is a pen-name chosen by the author to reflect the historical western background of the West Texas Checker Board ranch. The author has a life time interest in the western genre including books of Zane Grey. Good character development, plety of action, and story plot are designed to bring back interest in Western lore and storytelling. This book is the first of the two novel Checker Board saga. This book and subsequent books in the series relate to Dave Smith, broadening the scope into all of the western territories in 1880. Further adventures ensue in which Dave Smith matures and copes with bounty hunters after a reward on his head. Read More Read Less