Max Brand
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The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough roadbed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder, the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there is a way to talk above the noise of a freight train just as there is a way to whistle into the teeth of a stiff wind. This freight-car talk is pitched just above the ordinary tone-it is an overtone of conversation,...
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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...
3) Trailin'
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Twists and turns abound as a man with no prior wilderness experience tracks the cold, calculating killer of his father across the open plains and mountains of the Wild West.
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Max Brand's first novel and one of the first in the genre of Westerns along with Zane Gray. Has everything a Western needs: a unbeatable stallion, other horses, a semi-tamed wolf, a young lady "purtier than any filly", unbounded plains, hills, and mountains, untamed skies and weather, and of course--desperados. (Goodreads)
5) The untamed
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With uncanny abilities, Whistlin' Dan Berry keeps the toughest of situations under control. The protagonist of Brand's first western novel was radically different from earlier, more realistic characters. In 'The Untamed', readers are introduced to the modern conception of the west as a violent world of fairy tale.
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The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen, whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions, whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind, of glorious women, whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But, nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter, McGurk.
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8) Alcatraz
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A horse who had been bred to race escapes his masters home and gets used to freedom, but at a terrible price. Can he survive those who are trying to hunt him down? Nothing proves straightforward as the hunt closes in.
9) Black Jack
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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.
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"Doc Willis, despite the nickname, is just an unemployed cowboy in The Valley of Jewels. Daggett Valley holds many secrets from the past, including a now deserted mining camp. It is there that Buck Logan lures Willis with the promise of great riches to be gained. What Doc doesn't even suspect is that he is to play a part in a most subtle feat of deception in which an old man, William Daggett, will be conned into believing that he is reliving his past....
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Though young, he'd built a far-reaching bad reputation. Denver knew him as the Doctor; Texans called him Montana; Idahoans called him Texas. But when he gets arrested for vagrancy, he tells the sheriff he is Alfred Lamb. Will it stick when a rancher needs his help to battle cattle rustlers?
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Published in 1919, this tells the story of Andrew/Andy, raised by his uncle to shoot and ride horses. Andrew is content with living a quiet life in a Western town, until a bully picks a fight. Andy knocks him out, and the guy hits his head on a rock. Andy goes on the run, thinking he's a murderer and subconsciously gravitating towards the lawless sector. (Goodreads)
13) Old Carver Ranch
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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 each others that the greatest happiness is born of trust in one another. Tom even gets a chance to demonstrate his new way...
14) The brass man
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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 finds his reputation has preceded him when he receives two job offers. Roger Cunningham wants Lew to join his smuggling operation. Dr. Henry Watts wants to hire Lew to protect his patient dying of consumption, the beautiful Helen O'Mallock. Lew finds...
15) The trail beyond
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In his travels Peter Quince would seek out those with skills he needed and learn from them until he was able to master his teacher. At barely twenty, he had a price on his head for shooting a man in self-defense. As he outsmarted lawmen in five states and territories, the bounty rose to over $100,000. He finally fled to Mexico, but there he would fall into trouble again with a wealthy land baron, a beautiful woman, and a notorious bandit.
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Don Sebastian Valdivia and his secretary, Juan Carreano, attend a horse auction at the Garrison Ranch, where an outlaw stallion, Twilight, is held back until last. The only man who can ride this magnificent beast is Charles Dupont, known as The Crisco Kid, who has bonded with the horse since he was a colt. Because gunman Bud Carew despises The Kid, he desperately wants to possess Twilight. Those attending the auction know that no matter which one...
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When Harry French left home he was just another kid looking to make his way. But when he comes back four years later, things are different. He's different. Or at least the town thinks so. Now nobody looks him in the eye. He isn't just Harry anymore, he's the Shifter, a gunfighter who brings trouble with him wherever he goes. And as hard as Harry tries, he finds that a reputation is a lot harder to put down than a gun.
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Les Burchard owned the local gambling palace, half the town, and most of the surrounding territory, and Walt Devon's thousand-acre ranch would make him king of the land. The trouble was, Devon didn't want to sell. In a ruthless bid to claim the spread, Burchard tried everything from poker to murder. But Walt Devon was a betting man by nature, even when the stakes were his life. The way Devon figured, the odds were stacked against him. So he could...
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In "Lawman's Heart," Larry Traynor is driving a stage with his shotgun guard, Sam Whitney, the man who has been his mentor in life, when a hold-up occurs. Sam is shot dead. Traynor is determined to bring the thief to justice, but then fate intervenes. Although he does not recognize the symptoms, or what they mean, Traynor is suffering from heart failure. He is deputized to give pursuit even though, given his condition, it can only lead to his ruin.
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