Max Brand

After receiving a letter from his dying father, a young man raised by the Jesuits to be a missionary priest sets out to avenge his father, where he confronts unknown enemies and the mysteries of the female heart

Within ten days of stepping out of the woods afoot near the town of Moose Creek, Duval was the most popular man in the district. After all, what wasn’t there to like? He was a good listener, generous with his money, a great cook and host, and a hard worker on old Dad Wilbur’s place, which he bought for $1,500. He wins the admiration of Sheriff Nat Adare when he quells and befriends the often-wild Charlie Nash and pays for the damages Nash has...

In Speedy's mare, a young and deadly drifter is lured across the Mexican border to be killed. In His fight for a pardon, a man is wanted far and wide for numerous crimes, many of which he didn't commit. In Peter Blue, one-gun man, a gunman whose reputation makes him unwelcome is hiding out after his gun arm is no longer functional

When a man decides to punish his layabout cousin by forcing him to ride some raw mustangs, the cousin displays an unexpected and inexplicable gift for taming horses, but when he successfully rides a notoriously skittish stallion, Sky Blue, he makes an enemy of another man, who deliberately spooks the horse and sends him running off, leaving the cousin to risk his own life to bring back the horse.

A thief has a change of heart after a robbery goes wrong and decides to return the money . . . at all costs! In "Bad News for Bad Men," Jimmy Jones is a ne'er-do-well with a trigger finger who has spent half his life raising hell. In hopes of turning his life around, Jimmy arrives to the town of Jasper, where his uncle has gotten him a job at the town newspaper. No longer is a gunfighter, Jimmy now an editor. But his uncle welcomes Jimmy with a warning:...

When a rancher is mortally wounded by an old enemy, he leaves his youngest son the task of avenging his death

A sheriff attempts to capture an unstoppable outlaw bent on revenge

In "Lawman's Heart," Larry Traynor is driving a stage when his shotgun guard is killed in a holdup. He's determined to bring the thief to justice when fate intervenes. Joe Palmer in "White-Water Sam" had been a deck hand on the Thomas Drayton before the railroad came. Now the riverboat is permanently moored because her only chance for a future is to get her downstream through impossible rapids. In the title story, partners in a mining claim divide...

Three short novels featuring some favorite Brand characters