Max Brand

"When well-to-do Southerner Charles Granville saves Sam Cross from a fatal stabbing and notices they bear a striking resemblance to each other, he convinces Sam to pose as Granville whenever he asks--an agreement that just might get Sam killed"--

This fast-paced story is about a tough rebel named Destry who is sent to prison for years, serving time for a crime he did not commit. Once out, he aims to seek revenge on the 12 jury members who sent him to prison. However, his mission isn't to kill but to find other unique ways as punishment...

"Many men had set out to capture a magnificent stallion named Parade but none had yet triumphed through the hardships to gain the ultimate prize. Silvertip was a dangerous cowboy who could rip out the heart of a mountain lion with his bare hands and when he hunted Parade, he took only a rope and raw courage. But trailing him, guns at their sides, were two killers who wanted the cowboy as badly as they wanted the horse!"--

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...

"Tom Fuller, a scrupulously honest fellow, a person of extraordinary physical strength and owner of a savage horse, Rusty, that he alone was able to tame, is generally regarded as a half-wit. He has been summarily fired from every job he has ever had and even comes to regard himself as a failure. He makes one more try when he is hired on as a blacksmith's assistant by Boston Charlie. Finally here is a job that Tom can perform successfully, and his...

After an outlaw is killed, his baby son is adopted by his lover. What will become of this boy? Brand keeps the reader in suspense as this classic tale of good versus evil, in the same person, unfolds.

John Themis, a man with money and patience, pursues a notorious marauder.

This trio of Western novellas opens with "Bared Fangs," in which ben Flinder's life at an isolated hotel in the mountains is complicated by the arrival of a young woman who is in flighty, but refuses to reveal from whom. She is befriended by the Gray Shadow, but even he cannot preven her capture. In "Gallows Gamble," jack Sherry and his partner, Bill Garvin, are making their last, nothing-left-to-lose run across the border herding "wet" cattle, hoping...