Max Brand

"Tom Palding offers Ned Rippon $500 to impersonate him for five days to find out why Charles Barrett has summoned him back to Tyndal Valley which he fled twenty years ago after killing Sam Barrett. Rippon needs the money and agrees, but soon wonders if he'll survive the five days to collect it"--

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...

A young man seeks to avenge his father's death at the hands of greedy ranchers.

"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...

"Sammy Gregg heads west where fortunes are made with the goal of raising $15,000 in six months and returning to marry his childhood sweetheart. With frail physique and knowing nothing of fighting, guns, or horses, he sees an opportunity in the tough town of Munson, but it means going up against the toughest man in town"--