Max Brand
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 Paul has been rewarded with many riches, he still seems unhappy, and the Cheyenne chief decides to undertake a dangerous mission to kidnap Nancy Brett from Fort Kendry. The Cheyennes believe that will make White...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the day that Jingo rode into Tower Creek, the town was busy celebrating its twentieth anniversary. At the moment the big event was a high stakes poker game in Joe Slade's saloon with Wally Rankin holding most of the chips. That is, until Jingo joined the game. It didn't take long for Jingo to figure out that Rankin was cheating, and a couple of well-placed bullets revealed it to the others in the room. The sheriff warns Jingo to head out of Tower...
6) Silvertip
Author
Series
Silvertip adventure volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Silvertip killed someone. Usually not something he would get all bent out of shape about, but this just happened to be a kid wearing the cape of the man Silvertip meant to kill. The man he meant to kill, named Bandini, set the teenager and in effect Silvertip up. Silvertip only feels bad that it was not Bandini bleeding out, but instead a much more innocent child. He decides he wants to do two things, finish whatever job the youngster did, according...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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!"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Every fall Tom Reynard, ramrod for the Bar L, had a hard time finding cowpunchers willing to work the winter range in the bleak badlands near the Sioux reservation. So when Jigger Bunts, an eighteen-year-old from New York who was familiar with riding and roping, happened along, he was hired even though his youth was a red flag to Reynard. To pass the time in the bunkhouse, the other cowhands spin tall tales for Bunts, who they call the kid, about...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Master and Man, Bobbie is a black man who can outride, outfight, and outshoot any white man in the mountain desert. His unwavering moral code serves as a model for his often cruel and dissolute white master. A Lucky Dog is a tale of desperate flight by a jewel thief named Hagger from the man he robbed. In Colorado, facing a battle with winter cold and snow, he comes upon an isolated cabin and its sole occupant, a weakened bull terrier left there...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rusty Sabin was a child when Cheyene Indians raided the Sabin homestead, killing his mother. Raised by Indians, known as Red Hawk, he has no recollection of his white father. His only goal is to kill Wind Walker, the white enemy of the Cheyenne and restore his reputation among the people who abandoned him when he was 15 after refusing to take part in their compulsory brutal initiation.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Menneval offers Lefty Bill Ranger $6000 to travel from Alaska to California to spy on a father and son it sounds like easy money, but Ranger will soon discover there is nothing easy about it in this tale of covert espionage, gold, and a mysterious figure on horseback"--
14) Tenderfoot
Author
Language
English
Description
Versatility was a key talent of author Frederick Faust using the pseudonym Max Brand. Two of his top selling western novels, The Untamed and Bull Hunter, are Blackstone audiobooks narrated by John Rayburn. This story is part of this prodigious output, a tale of a hapless youth seemingly with no talents or work ability. He fell into bad hands and was captured, accused of murder, and scheduled for execution. A pardon led to freedom and a happy ending....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The house on the hill in Merridan belonged to Captain Slocum. It was regarded as a house of mystery, and it was protected by dogs that ran the grounds at night and armed men who allowed no visitors, even when the captain was away from the house, which for periods of time on end he was. Don Grier was still a boy when he braved the terrors of the captain's domain to steal a watermelon. It made Don Grier a hero, and a hero has to be challenged. Don's...
17) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Language
English
Description
Perhaps adolescent boys have had better reasons to run away from home than young Sammy Moore, but Sammy might never have done anything about it had he not encountered the tramp named Lefty and his trained bull terrier. The appeal that life on the road with these two offers is one of continuous adventure, so Sammy heads west. Swept along through a trail of unfortunate events, Sammy finds himself as front man for a giant hunchback named Jake and his...
18) Hired guns
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Billy Buel didn't look like a man who could inspire fear. He was a slight man with boyish good looks and a gentle manner, but he was also a fearsome fighter with hands or guns or knives. Billy Buel was one of those rare men who had learned from every defeat he'd ever been handed. For nine years a feud had raged between the Benchleys and the Camps. At last, they decided on a two-man duel to settle their grudge. Now Billy Buel, hired by the Camps, faced...