Max Brand
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Recently, a number of Western stories have been discovered among Max Brand's unpublished works and the first story in this book, The White Streak, is one of them. Its protagonist is twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how...
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2013.
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After ten years of wandering, during which he has lived the life of a gambler and learned the ways of devious men, Tom Keene, returns home, only to find his father alone and dying. Old John Keene's sole legacy to his son is a Bible. With his father's passing, Tom Keene renounces his selfish, worthless past and sets out to try to teach others that the greatest happiness is born of trust in one another. Tom even gets a chance to demonstrate his new...
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2018.
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"After serving two years in Folsom Prison, Blondy Kitchin lands in Sour Creek Valley where his brute strength gets him a job managing a ranch where he has to deal with an out of control bunch of cowboys, ruthless rustlers, and a savvy Mexican youngster he picked up in town to act as his mozo"--
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On a cold, gusty night in Circle City, Alaska, Sammy Day walks into Nagle's Bar. He is only twenty-two, but he has been on his own for ten years. He has worked cattle from Montana to Chihuahua, but a little "accident" at a poker table in Montana sent him on a forced march to Alaska to avoid a posse. He is down to his last fifty cents.
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2021.
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In 'Traynor' the title character is believed to be a weak young man, having let Dr. Parker Channing steal his love, Rose Laymon, away from him. When the stage Traynor is driving into Little Snake is robbed and Traynor's best friend and stage guard, Sam Whitney, is killed by the robber, Traynor chases the thief and recovers his dropped Stetson, which was sold to Dr. Channing less than a month earlier. The medico takes off after Traynor confronts him...
13) Train's trust
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Steven Train is, and has long been, a thief, a card sharp and a swindler. He has gone by many names and when he is sought out by another crook, John Ranier, with a proposal to undertake a very dangerous mission for a wealthy rancher, Train agrees to make the attempt. The understanding is that he will double-cross Comstock, the rancher, and split any money entrusted to him with Ranier and disappear. When a detective shows up trying to capture Train...
14) The Black Rider
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The Black Rider by Max Brand is about the adventures of rancher Senor Francisco Torreno, who lives only for his son and daughter-in-law. One day, Senor Torreno and his son hear a flute in the distance, only to find a mysterious and mute Native American with fateful advice. Excerpt: ""I mean that the horse is my slave, señor." "By the heavens!" broke out Torreño. "The fellow speaks French, also. Better French than I use myself!" "Wait, wait!" said...
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Lew Weldon has been a tumbleweed, rolling where the wind blew him, up to Canada and down to Mexico. Over time he has earned a reputation as a gambler and a gunfighter. Riding into San Trinidad, Weldon accepts the job offer of Dr. Henry Watts, who wants to hire Lew to protect his patient dying of consumption, Helen O'Mallock. Helen's father had hidden a fortune in the house before his death, and her house has already been entered twice by strange men....
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Outlaw Lawrence Grey is a notorious outlaw who has been captured in El Paso. Marshal Neilan has a proposal for Grey: Neilan will set Grey free from prison provided he attempts to locate John Ray. When last heard from' Ray was living in San Vicente' Mexico. But all the men previously sent by Neilan have either quit the job - or disappeared. Grey agrees to Neilans proposal' unaware of the intrigue and danger ahead.
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2012
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Prairie Pawn tells the story of Paul Torridon, called White Thunder by the Cheyenne Indians holding him hostage. They believe that he cured Whistling Elk's son from a menacing illness and brought rain when others had failed to do so. Though a Paul has been rewarded with many riches, he still seems unhappy, and the Cheyenne chief decides to undertake a dangerous mission to kidnap Torridon's sweetheart, Nancy Brett, from Fort Kendry. The Cheyennes believe...
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Unlikely hero Sammy Gregg has never met a challenge he won't face head on, but he hasn't met outlaw Chester Furness!
Born in Brooklyn, Sammy Gregg is small in stature and naive to the ways of the world, yet headstrong and resolute to save enough money to marry Susie Mitchell. Gregg calculates that he needs $15‚000 and figures he can earn enough in six months out west. Although he is a small man who knows nothing of fighting‚ guns‚ or horses‚...
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There is a $2,500 reward for the head of the killer wolf, Gray Cloud. When Dave Reagan, considered little better than a half-wit by all who know him, finds the wolf held in his traps, something in the fearless animal's eyes keeps Dave from killing him. Instead, he releases Gray Cloud and carries him on his back to save the wolf from a prairie fire that is threatening them both. Dave brings Gray Cloud home and chains him in a shed that he uses as a...
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Peter Dunstan is a big rancher who wants to become bigger, to control more land. So when he buys Dr. Henry Morgan s ranchland that has been unsuccessfully converted to farming, it is his intention to return it to open range. The only stipulation the doctor makes is that Dunstan must retain Sandy Sweyn, who has more or less been Dr. Morgan s ward. Though the man is of age, he is generally considered a half-wit, even by the doctor. Still, Sandy has...
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