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"Arizona Jim Silver had to find Rap Brender, Judge Brender's missing son - the same Rap Brender who had joined guns with Silver's oldest and deadliest enemy. But when the legendary Silvertip finally caught up with Brender, they shared a common enemy - ever since Brender's partner tried to kidnap his woman. Now it was up to the two men to catch the man Silver had pledged to kill - for Silver's honor and his life!"--
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In Max Brand's stories no character is either a hero or a villain, and most are mixtures of both. That is certainly the case in "The Ghost Wagon," first published in 1921. Both Lew Carney and Jack Doyle love Mary Hamilton and she has plans of her own. "Rodeo Ranch" proved one of Brand's most popular short novels when it first appeared in Western Story Magazine in 1923. "Slip Liddel" is set during the Depression and centers on a poor man's revenge....
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"Max Brand's novels and stories have defined the West for thousands of readers attracted to his bright, vigorous prose. John Cawelti, Russel G. Nye, and other scholars of the western view his work as key in the development of the genre. Between 1917 and 1944 he wrote prolifically, making Max Brand one of America's most popular writers." "But Max Brand wasn't his real name, and his work extended well beyond boots and saddles. Born Frederick Schiller...
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The indians named the great white wolf the Lightning Warrior because of the swiftness with which he can parry and attack. A bounty is offered for the head of the Lightning Warrior, but no one is able to capture him. That is, until the red-haired blue-eyed giant of a man known only as Cobalt comes to town. Struck by the charm of Sylvia Baird, Cobalt announces his intention to marry her. Sylvia's father disapproves, as does her friend, Tom Chalmers....
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In "Gunless Gunman", Tom Dallas vows to change his way of life and not carry a loaded gun for one year, a vow he may find very difficult to uphold. When Tom Reardon is jailed and charged with being an accessory to Jack Bristol's daring bank robbery and escape, Bristol becomes "The Fighting Coward" to free an innocent young man in a move that turns his own gang against him. Jimmy Harrigan and outlaw Big Joe are the "Gunfighters in Hell" when they...
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Peter Messenger was made for trouble. He was specially trained in the art of death, even though he'd never killed anyone. But his skills with his hands, a gun, or a knife were undeniable. And there was only one person he planned to use them on: Summer Day, the wily medicine man who had tortured and killed a defenseless white. But to get to the one he seeks, Peter will have to take on the whole Blackfoot nation...and hope his extraordinary talents...
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Juan Oro, a young American brought up by Indians, is captured in battle by a Spanish lord. He is sent to apprentice with a famous gunslinger with instructions to learn the trade, then kill him. But during training a bond forms between pupil and teacher. A 1925 magazine serial, now published in book form.
16) Rancher's legacy
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"The youngest of seven sons, Flash Baldwin had been a wastrel his entire life. Then he became a man on a mission. His father left him a six-shooter, a thoroughbred, and the charge to avenge his death.
19) Marbleface
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When almost middle weight champ of the World of fighters is told to slow down by his doctor ; so he quits fist fighting to become a remarkably good gunfighter.
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The Legend of Thunder Moon is an intriguing and successful re-creation of the spirit of Cheyenne life during its golden age of nomadic hunting and superb horsemanship on the Great Plains. A Cheyenne brave, Big Hard Face, lacking a son to reaffirm his status, journeys east and kidnaps a white boy. The boy, raised as Thunder Moon, becomes immersed in Cheyenne culture and seeks honor through warfare and hunting to overcome the stigma of his lighter skin....