Nelson S Bond wrote what I would describe as, "space opera western" short stories for a pulp fiction publication called *Planet Stories* in the 1940s. I usually enjoy his descriptions, but none have been as fun as how he described "Salvation" Smith. > > > The old man's lips etched a straight line, reminding Chip that Salvation Smith was not one of those milk-and-water missionaries who espoused the principle of "turning the other cheek" to evildoers. Salvation was not the ordained emissary of any church. A devoutly religious man with the heart of an adventurer, he had taken upon himself the mission of carrying to outland tribes the story of the God he worshipped. > > > > > That his God was the fierce Yahveh of the Old Testament, a God of anger and retribution, was made evident by the methods Salvation sometimes employed in winning his converts. For not only was Salvation acknowledged the most pious man in space; he was also conceded to be the best hand with a gun! > > > > > Earth's softhanded ecclesiastics did not altogether approve of their wayward missionary's reputation. > > Out of the works I have read so far, he has shown up in "[Shadrach](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61976)" and "[The Lorelei Death](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62039)"