Max Brand
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
The gift : When Happy Jack learns that Sandy Crisp was behind the killing of his pal Jackson, a married man and the father of three, he hunts him down at his cabin. Feeling fear for the first time, as Happy Jack tries to taunt him into a fight, Crisp is struck by the physical similarity between Happy Jack and Johnny Neilan, the son of his nearest neighbors, who died twelve years ago in a log jam. Bitter and rich, Johnnys parents still believe he is...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
On a cold, gusty night in Circle City, Alaska, Sammy Day walks into Nagle's Bar. He is only twenty-two, but he has been on his own for ten years. He has worked cattle from Montana to Chihuahua, but a little "accident" at a poker table in Montana sent him on a forced march to Alaska to avoid a posse. He is down to his last fifty cents.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
If you like your westerns with a stiff dose of righteous vengeance and well-deserved comeuppance, you'll love The Rangeland Avenger by prolific author and beloved master of the genre Max Brand. A softspoken but ruthless protagonist cuts a swath of violent payback across the Wild West in this thrill-a-minute adventure.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr., 59 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gunman agrees to do a rich man's dirty work in this classic Western from one of the genre's early masters. Donnegan is not proud of his past. But when words ran dry and matters could only be settled with a gun, he never hesitated to make things right. Now fate has led him to The Corner, a wide-open gold-mining town in the valley where two rivers join. An invalid by the name of Colonel Macon wants Donnegan to settle a long-standing land claim that's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recently, a number of Western stories have been discovered among Max Brand's unpublished works and the first story in this book, The White Streak, is one of them. Its protagonist is twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how...
6) Bull Hunter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The townspeople living between Cheyenne and San Antonio brace themselves for the confrontation of a lifetime between gentle giant Bull Hunter and brawny gunslinger Pete Reeve.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In three novellas, young men who have started to build bad reputations for themselves turn their lives around when they defend the innocent and bring down bad men"--
Bad news for bad men. Jimmy Jones was a young, hell-raising gunfighter and his rich and childless Uncle Oliver is dismayed that Jimmy will be his heir unless he manages to give everything away before he dies. So Uncle Oliver gives Jimmy his dying newspaper, the Jasper Journal, with...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A no-good thief takes on a job with a huge payout that he can't possibly resist! Steven Train is a thief who knows a thing or two about how to handle a firearm. One day he's approached by another crook named John Rainier to go on a manhunt. Train is wary at first, but when Rainier tells him there's a huge payout, he decides to take on the job. Rainier works for Patrick Comstock, a rich rancher looking for an honest man to go on a dangerous mission...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hugh Collier in "The Danger Lover" feels he is living an empty life as little more that a competent bank employee in the town of Stanton. He decides to leave behind a life that for him was a "caricature and savage cartoon of the beautiful truth that life may be" and heads into the mountains alone, carrying only the essentials on his horse. Two things change the course of his adventure: he sees a town from a hill, and a stranger, desperate to file...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Jingo decides to court a judge's daughter, he finds almost everyone out to stop him--the judge, the hopeful suitor, and the brother of the man he shot over a card game"--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
287 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After serving two years in Folsom Prison, Blondy Kitchin lands in Sour Creek Valley where his brute strength gets him a job managing a ranch where he has to deal with an out of control bunch of cowboys, ruthless rustlers, and a savvy Mexican youngster he picked up in town to act as his mozo" --
16) Daring Duval
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Newcomer David Duval is secretive about his past and Marian Lane is determined to discover what he is hiding. When she enlists the aid of the famous manhunter, Marshal Richard Kinkaid, a dangerous game of matching wits between Duval and Kinkaid begins"--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When big Dave Reagan, whom everyone thinks of as a half-wit, saves Gray Cloud's life, the two become attached. Because of the bounty on the big grey wolf's head, they escape to the wilderness where they must rely on each other to survive" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2013, c2009.
Edition
First Skyhorse Publishing edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"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."...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In the black darkness of night, Ronicky Doone overhears the plans of Jack Moon's ruthless gang of cutthroats to kill someone named Hugh Dawn for deserting the gang. While Ronicky doesn't know Hugh Dawn or Jack Moon, he is always ready for adventure. With the aid of his trusty, well-trained horse, Lou, he outraces Moon's gang and successfully warns Hugh Dawn of his danger. Hugh and his gentle daughter, Jerry, accept Ronicky's help and flee with him...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Raw frontier action is epitomized in Lee Porfilo. With a penchant for settling his problems with his fists, a penniless fighter constantly in trouble, he finds himself framed for murder by wealthy and powerful ranchers. Now he has an enemy for life. In a desperate bid to prove his innocence, flees into the wilderness, with the law and bounty hunters in hot pursuit. An interesting story written in the older style of language usage that you'll find...