Max Brand
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John Signal is only twenty-two, but he's old enough to have killed a man. It was a fair fight, but the man was well-connected and he's charged with murder. Signal flees to the mining town of Monument, looking for a wrangling job as John Alias. When his horse is stolen, Sheriff Peter Ogden tells him that if he can get it back, he'll make him a deputy. Alias succeeds, and soon finds himself wedged between two bloodthirsty factions that rule the town....
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In "Lawman's Heart, " Larry Traynor is driving a stage when his shotgun guard is killed in a holdup. He's determined to bring the thief to justice when fate intervenes. Joe Palmer in "White-Water Sam" had been a deck hand on the Thomas Drayton before the railroad came. Now the riverboat is permanently moored because her only chance for a future is to get her downstream through impossible rapids. In the title story, partners in a mining claim divide...
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The legend of Robert Fernald is narrated here in three related short novels. Fernald had been raised from childhood by his uncle with endless tales about the great days of the Wild West and the escapades of his father and Wild Bill - with a certain vagueness about which side of the law Fernald's father was on. Now Robert is back in the West with no ambition but to pursue exploits like those he grew up hearing about.
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In "Speedy's Desert Dance" a young drifter runs into trouble after overhearing two outlaws plan a murder and kidnapping. A gripping story set during the War Between the States. "A Watch in the Wilderness" finds Marse Roberts' company in a trench as a sharpshooter in a tree above starts to shoot them, one by one. "The Good Badman" is Ed Garver, known in the ring as Kid Denver. It was hard luck that finished his fighting career, and that hard luck seems...