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Branded Outlaw
Take the law into your own hands, and you risk losing your grip on everything else—including your life. Lee Weston—a young Paul Newman with a Colt revolver at his hip—is as good-looking as he is quick-tempered, and he’s got a lot to be angry about. His father murdered, his family ranch torched, he goes gunning for Harvey Dodge—the man who he’s convinced is the killer—and it’s Lee who ends up on the wrong side of the law. Shot in a gunfight, on the run and running out of time, he holes up in a mountain hideout and waits for death to come find him. But he wakes up in the arms of a beautiful woman who has beat death to his door and nursed him back to life. She’s the first and only woman he has ever fallen for, and her name is Ellen Dodge—Harvey’s daughter. Can a great loss lead to a great love? Can the search for revenge lead to redemption? The answers lie in the wild heart of the Wild West—in Branded Outlaw. L. Ron Hubbard was so prolific, and his stories so much in demand, he occasionally had to publish under a pseudonym to ensure that his name wouldn’t appear twice in a single issue of a magazine. Thus did Branded Outlaw originally appear as being written by a writer named Barry Randolph. But as is clear from the action and authenticity of the story, it was Hubbard behind the curtain pulling the levers. This is one of sixteen westerns Hubbard wrote in 1938—all influenced by a foray into New Mexico to round out his research. His unsurpassed knowledge of the West originated in his years growing up—and riding on—the range. “Packs a ton of action and some priceless shootout scenes.” —EZReader.com
1008 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1938
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L. Ron Hubbard
1,930 books648 followersL. Ron Hubbard is universally acclaimed as the single most influential author and humanitarian of this modern age. His definitive works on the mind and spirit—comprising over 350 million copies in circulation and more than 40 international bestsellers—have resulted in a legacy benefiting millions and a movement spanning all cultures.
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December 2, 2022
A rollicking revenge adventure tale. Lee Weston receives a letter from his father saying that the family and their land are in grave danger of being taken over by an old enemy. Lee arrives in the Pecos valley to find his parents dead. He sets out to take revenge on the murderers, while also catching the fancy of his father's enemy's daughter, subsequently attracting the ire of the lynch happy folk of Pecos. The focus is more on the action rather than character development or descriptions of the Pecos valley where the action takes place. I liked Hubbard's sharp short lines and the author uses quite a lot of colloquialisms. The book came with a reference page for some of the obscure words used by Hubbard. First published in 1938, this 2008 edition of Branded Outlaw is a quality product with a nice jacket, drawings between the pages, a brief history of pulp fiction, a write upon on Hubbard and sneak peak into another one of his stories. I picked it up randomly at a second hand book store. Not a bad buy at all.
January 26, 2011
I’ve got to come clean: I’ve been on a severe Western kick ever since I started playing “Red Dead Redemption,” and so I was pre-reading pumped to jump into “The Branded Outlaw”, a pulp-fiction-style Western. It’s gotten bad lately. I’ve started using words like “pard’ner,” I’m doodling Winchester rifles, and I dream about hog-tying criminals. And as my motto goes, if you have an itch, scratch it. So did “The Branded Outlaw” scratch my back to my satisfaction? This highly biased EZ Reader finds out…
Classic to the pulp fiction/Westerny genre, our hero is Lee Weston: a lone-ranger type with a heart tucked deep away in his brawny chest. The story begins when he returns to his family ranch in Pecos, New Mexico, and finds his home destroyed. Loaded with the three R’s: regret, rage, and revenge, Lee seeks Harvey Dodge, a family enemy. What makes “The Branded Outlaw” an even better book than previously reviewed “The Baron of Coyote River” is Ellen, a great female character that adds romance and “girl power” to the plot. Ya’ll know I’m a sucker for romance, especially when Ellen is described as “the only girl at whom he had ever looked twice”. Team Edward and Jacob, eat your lily-livered hearts out. Of course, when your nickname is “Suicide” and you’re perpetually on the run, love comes at a high price… No spoiler alerts here!
Running under 100 pages, this puppy packs a ton of action and some priceless shootout scenes. Stories from the Golden Age also does a nice job of adding a glossary at the end to expand my Western vocab with phrases like “owl-hoot” and “pushing up prickly pear”; all so I can annoy the “batwings” (long chaps) off my friends. Of the Golden Age stories I’ve read by L. Ron Hubbard, I have to say, I rate the ones that have a side of romance the highest, i.e. “Spy Killer” and “The Branded Outlaw”. However, I do make an exception for zombies, so “Dead Men Kill” also makes my top three.
Derringers, shootouts, and forbidden romance; consider this itch scratched!
Bang bang! Pew pew!
EZ Read Staffer Jenifer
Classic to the pulp fiction/Westerny genre, our hero is Lee Weston: a lone-ranger type with a heart tucked deep away in his brawny chest. The story begins when he returns to his family ranch in Pecos, New Mexico, and finds his home destroyed. Loaded with the three R’s: regret, rage, and revenge, Lee seeks Harvey Dodge, a family enemy. What makes “The Branded Outlaw” an even better book than previously reviewed “The Baron of Coyote River” is Ellen, a great female character that adds romance and “girl power” to the plot. Ya’ll know I’m a sucker for romance, especially when Ellen is described as “the only girl at whom he had ever looked twice”. Team Edward and Jacob, eat your lily-livered hearts out. Of course, when your nickname is “Suicide” and you’re perpetually on the run, love comes at a high price… No spoiler alerts here!
Running under 100 pages, this puppy packs a ton of action and some priceless shootout scenes. Stories from the Golden Age also does a nice job of adding a glossary at the end to expand my Western vocab with phrases like “owl-hoot” and “pushing up prickly pear”; all so I can annoy the “batwings” (long chaps) off my friends. Of the Golden Age stories I’ve read by L. Ron Hubbard, I have to say, I rate the ones that have a side of romance the highest, i.e. “Spy Killer” and “The Branded Outlaw”. However, I do make an exception for zombies, so “Dead Men Kill” also makes my top three.
Derringers, shootouts, and forbidden romance; consider this itch scratched!
Bang bang! Pew pew!
EZ Read Staffer Jenifer
February 24, 2016
A murder mystery set in the Wild West. A fun pulp novel from the prolific Hubbard.
January 3, 2014
About as action-packed as a book can be
Originally published in 1938 in "Five-Novels Monthly" magazine
Re-published by Galaxy Press in 2011.
I read this as a kindle e-book, which seemed sort of appropriate considering L. Ron Hubbard's standing as a world class science fiction author. When this story was originally written in 1938 my standard-issue Kindle HD tablet would seem to be nothing short of science fiction.
You may not be aware that Hubbard wrote plenty of westerns back in the days of pulp serial magazines (and long before his name became synonymous with Scientology). His familiarity with western life came from his childhood in Montana when Montana was still only a few steps away from its rough-and-tumble cowboy past.
Branded Outlaw is an all out Western adventure with all of the familiar elements fans of Westerns are readily familiar with. Lee Weston is coming from Wyoming after being summoned by his father to his ranch in New Mexico. When he arrives he finds his father dead and a smoldering ruin where his father's ranch had been. He is sure that the biggest rancher in the area is the source of this trouble and he is determined to get his revenge.
When he arrives in town he finds himself in a gunfight with the hired hands of this rancher and he is forced to flee town and nurse his wounds. While hiding out he is discovered by a beautiful, headstrong girl who patches him up. Lee falls for her only to find out she is his enemy's daughter...
While none too subtle, this book is about as action-packed as a book can be. It is followed by an interesting biography of the almost unbelievable life of L. Ron Hubbard.
Read all of my reviews of L. Ron Hubbard's Golden Age pulp serials at: http://dwdsreviews.blogspot.com/searc...
Originally published in 1938 in "Five-Novels Monthly" magazine
Re-published by Galaxy Press in 2011.
I read this as a kindle e-book, which seemed sort of appropriate considering L. Ron Hubbard's standing as a world class science fiction author. When this story was originally written in 1938 my standard-issue Kindle HD tablet would seem to be nothing short of science fiction.
You may not be aware that Hubbard wrote plenty of westerns back in the days of pulp serial magazines (and long before his name became synonymous with Scientology). His familiarity with western life came from his childhood in Montana when Montana was still only a few steps away from its rough-and-tumble cowboy past.
Branded Outlaw is an all out Western adventure with all of the familiar elements fans of Westerns are readily familiar with. Lee Weston is coming from Wyoming after being summoned by his father to his ranch in New Mexico. When he arrives he finds his father dead and a smoldering ruin where his father's ranch had been. He is sure that the biggest rancher in the area is the source of this trouble and he is determined to get his revenge.
When he arrives in town he finds himself in a gunfight with the hired hands of this rancher and he is forced to flee town and nurse his wounds. While hiding out he is discovered by a beautiful, headstrong girl who patches him up. Lee falls for her only to find out she is his enemy's daughter...
While none too subtle, this book is about as action-packed as a book can be. It is followed by an interesting biography of the almost unbelievable life of L. Ron Hubbard.
Read all of my reviews of L. Ron Hubbard's Golden Age pulp serials at: http://dwdsreviews.blogspot.com/searc...
January 12, 2021
Not bad! I love old pulp fiction stories but have read nothing by LRH.
It has quite a bit of background on Hubbard as well. I had no idea how accomplished he was at just about everything.
Hell, I thought he was just a nut that created Scientology. Although I understand there is rumor that he created it as a joke. Who knows.
Nothing about Scientology is addressed here.
I think the few page bio is what really impressed me. I want more, now.
The actual story was good. It's pulp fiction and written for a magazine in the 1930's so you have to allow for that.
It's fast, action happens on nearly every page, there's love, forbidden Love, mystery and intrigue.
It has quite a bit of background on Hubbard as well. I had no idea how accomplished he was at just about everything.
Hell, I thought he was just a nut that created Scientology. Although I understand there is rumor that he created it as a joke. Who knows.
Nothing about Scientology is addressed here.
I think the few page bio is what really impressed me. I want more, now.
The actual story was good. It's pulp fiction and written for a magazine in the 1930's so you have to allow for that.
It's fast, action happens on nearly every page, there's love, forbidden Love, mystery and intrigue.
November 23, 2013
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AudioFile review is good and I usually listen in the car but it is a huge treat to experience this on a good set of headphones at home for great sound and story experience when you have the time. It's all such a real experience for my imagination.
There really isn't anything close on the market for quality.
steady, almost conspiratorial, delivery of the narrative heightens the tension in this exciting shoot-���em-up.���
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AudioFile review is good and I usually listen in the car but it is a huge treat to experience this on a good set of headphones at home for great sound and story experience when you have the time. It's all such a real experience for my imagination.
There really isn't anything close on the market for quality.
August 15, 2016
Branded Outlaw
Weston’s father wrote a letter to him to come home, and watch out for a varmint named Dodge. But when he returns home, he finds his father dead, his ranch hands and cattle gone, and one burning desire to take care of Dodge.
His first attempt almost kills him. In his escape he is saved by a beautiful woman who happens to be Dodge’s daughter! Holy matrimony!
Did Dodge do it? Or is there some other rustler pitting the two against each other and collect from both of them?
Cool Western by Hubbard. Short and sweet novelette.
Weston’s father wrote a letter to him to come home, and watch out for a varmint named Dodge. But when he returns home, he finds his father dead, his ranch hands and cattle gone, and one burning desire to take care of Dodge.
His first attempt almost kills him. In his escape he is saved by a beautiful woman who happens to be Dodge’s daughter! Holy matrimony!
Did Dodge do it? Or is there some other rustler pitting the two against each other and collect from both of them?
Cool Western by Hubbard. Short and sweet novelette.
January 4, 2010
Great fun pulp fiction. Had no idea the Dianetics guru was also a pretty good fiction writer. Quick entertaining read, not much on the intellectual stimulation front, but worth a hour of reading instead of your evening tv show : )
December 5, 2013
This is a short old pulp Western, a genre with which I'm not too familiar. I didn't enjoy it as much as most of his work in other categories (the characters seemed a bit -too- stereotyped, and the plot just a little -too- obvious), but it was nonetheless a quick and entertaining diversion.
June 22, 2010
good olde fashioned hootenanny.
September 10, 2013
I could not sleep and this was a great story to get me through the night. What a fantastic author!
January 19, 2014
A wild ride.
January 19, 2015
The quality of the recording and the readers is very good. Typical western in that someone dies, someone seeks revenge, and a woman nurses an injured man back to health.
October 9, 2017
To date the other L. Ron Hubbard book I've ever read was Battlefield Earth which I loved (I even loved the movie, sue me!) so reading an old pulp western was definitely a big change up for me. This book wasn't bad or good. It was short and sweet and had the standard ingredients for a western. Warning spoilers ahead. I've literally outlined the entire book. Man's childhood home and father are killed. He comes back seeking vengeance. No one believes him so he starts shooting up people. Man becomes an outlaw. He is saved by a young girl who helps clean his wounds and heal him. He falls in love. Turns out her father is the bad guy. He runs away. Gets captured. Escapes. Discovers the truth. Is vindicated. Gets the girl. A quick unmemorable read that wasn't poorly written.
October 27, 2017
This is a better than average short western novel, with fairly believable characters. Even the multi-hour gun battle has a real-world precedent, and was set up in such a way that the only thing making it tough to believe was the ammunition supply involved.
As with most such stories, there had to be a pretty girl, a handsome young man, a gruff old-timer or two, a crooked gambler and a wide variety of outlaws, but this batch was put together in a way that mostly worked. There was a stereotypical Mexican bandit, but there was a reason for his existence in the story. There was the grizzled old sheriff with the heart of gold, but his actions had a practical reason.
If you like action westerns, this is a fun one.
As with most such stories, there had to be a pretty girl, a handsome young man, a gruff old-timer or two, a crooked gambler and a wide variety of outlaws, but this batch was put together in a way that mostly worked. There was a stereotypical Mexican bandit, but there was a reason for his existence in the story. There was the grizzled old sheriff with the heart of gold, but his actions had a practical reason.
If you like action westerns, this is a fun one.
December 8, 2025
Hasil jastip di gudang buku.
Secara keseluruhan ada 80 kisah dalam seri ini, sejauh ini saya baru membaca beberapa saja.
Musuh lawas keluarga, Harvey Dodge, telah kembali ke kota asal. Merasa khawatir, Lee bergegas kembali, sungguh meyedihkan ia terlambat. Ia hanya menemukan jenasah sang ayah dan tanah perternakan yang rata dengan tanah.
Selanjutnya bisa ditebak, terjadi aduk tembak antara Lee dan Dodge. Lee yang terlupa tanpa sengaka ditemukan oleh Ellen, anak perempuan Dodge. Kisah berlanjut. Kira-kira bisa menebak bagaimana akhirnya?
Secara keseluruhan ada 80 kisah dalam seri ini, sejauh ini saya baru membaca beberapa saja.
Musuh lawas keluarga, Harvey Dodge, telah kembali ke kota asal. Merasa khawatir, Lee bergegas kembali, sungguh meyedihkan ia terlambat. Ia hanya menemukan jenasah sang ayah dan tanah perternakan yang rata dengan tanah.
Selanjutnya bisa ditebak, terjadi aduk tembak antara Lee dan Dodge. Lee yang terlupa tanpa sengaka ditemukan oleh Ellen, anak perempuan Dodge. Kisah berlanjut. Kira-kira bisa menebak bagaimana akhirnya?
March 31, 2019
"Lee Weston dropped the shovel and turned to walk with weary gait back to the heap of still-smoking ashes which had been his home. There was nothing left there. Not even the frame which had enclosed his mothers picture had survived." Thus begins a marvelous tale of mistaken intent, iron will, quick guns, trust, and integrity that overcomes all obstacles. Really a novella.
Includes a glossary of words and expressions to help the reader better appreciate the cultural and historical setting.
Includes a glossary of words and expressions to help the reader better appreciate the cultural and historical setting.
February 3, 2022
An entertaining old school pulp Western story. I could see Audie Murphy playing the main character.
Suicide Lee Weston returns home to help his dad, only to find him dead and resolves to bring vengeance.
Suicide Lee Weston returns home to help his dad, only to find him dead and resolves to bring vengeance.
January 13, 2024
I was curious to read an L Ron Hubbard and I came across this short 80 page novelette for $0.50 at Goodwill in very good shape. Unfortunately, the story was cliche and the writing was terrible. I thought it would at least be fun but i was mostly bored throughout.
July 16, 2023
I don’t normally read westerns, but this was a free copy so I decided to give it a shot. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Highly recommended
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December 31, 2024Notes: Read only this story, not the whole collection. It seems like Goodreads doesn't have a good way or marking the single published story, which is what was available at my library.
October 14, 2014
The kind folks at Galaxy Press have given me a few copies of their audiobooks over the years at semiannual ALA conferences. I promised one of their booth reps this summer that I'd post reviews of them on Goodreads to repay their generosity.
Branded Outlaw is one of L. Ron Hubbard's old pulp novels. Short and sweet bits of fiction for mass-consumption compared to his voluminous masterpieces Battlefield Earth and the Mission Earth series, among others.
I love that Galaxy has chosen to make full-cast audiobooks. They are perfect vehicles for consumption of these short stories. The music sweeps; the gunfire pops; and the voice talent is first-rate.
Branded Outlaw is a classic tale of the old west. There's a hotheaded young gunslinger with a score to settle, a beautiful woman who's too good for her own good, a rich cattle baron of questionable character, an incurious sheriff, and the usual gang of ne'er-do-wells. It's a fun little story.
That said, even by pulp standards, just about everyone in this story is an idiot. Their actions largely make no sense, even in hindsight. If any of the purported "good guys" had just taken a few minutes to think things through then a lot of confusion could've been avoided.
Still, it was a pleasant listen for a couple of hours. Recommended if you like westerns. If you prefer other genres, L. Ron Hubbard has surely got you covered in other titles in the Stories from the Golden Age series.
Branded Outlaw is one of L. Ron Hubbard's old pulp novels. Short and sweet bits of fiction for mass-consumption compared to his voluminous masterpieces Battlefield Earth and the Mission Earth series, among others.
I love that Galaxy has chosen to make full-cast audiobooks. They are perfect vehicles for consumption of these short stories. The music sweeps; the gunfire pops; and the voice talent is first-rate.
Branded Outlaw is a classic tale of the old west. There's a hotheaded young gunslinger with a score to settle, a beautiful woman who's too good for her own good, a rich cattle baron of questionable character, an incurious sheriff, and the usual gang of ne'er-do-wells. It's a fun little story.
That said, even by pulp standards, just about everyone in this story is an idiot. Their actions largely make no sense, even in hindsight. If any of the purported "good guys" had just taken a few minutes to think things through then a lot of confusion could've been avoided.
Still, it was a pleasant listen for a couple of hours. Recommended if you like westerns. If you prefer other genres, L. Ron Hubbard has surely got you covered in other titles in the Stories from the Golden Age series.
December 5, 2013
Galaxy Audio provides a superb rendition of L. Ron Hubbard's Branded Outlaw. The narrator could be an old cowpoke resting by a blazing campfire along a nighttime trail spinning the legend of Suicide Weston. Sound effects more fully draw the listener into the story.
This great example of pulp fiction written in 1938 is a western loaded with suspenseful twists and turns plus a whimsical touch of romance. Hubbard's talent for writing is demonstrated in the following excerpt from the story.
"It was dark when he rose and tightened the buckskin cinch. Warily he led his mount down the slopes through the pinnacles of rocks which stood like grotesque heathen idols against the stars, each one passing silent judgement upon him. He was either going to salvation or going to the last battle of his life." (Chapter 7)
This compact disc recording along with a paperback version of the book would be a useful tool for teachers attempting to motivate reluctant readers. I wish that Hubbard's books would become available in a hardbound format that would survive the repeated use in a school library. His books should appeal to young adult as well as adult audiences.
This great example of pulp fiction written in 1938 is a western loaded with suspenseful twists and turns plus a whimsical touch of romance. Hubbard's talent for writing is demonstrated in the following excerpt from the story.
"It was dark when he rose and tightened the buckskin cinch. Warily he led his mount down the slopes through the pinnacles of rocks which stood like grotesque heathen idols against the stars, each one passing silent judgement upon him. He was either going to salvation or going to the last battle of his life." (Chapter 7)
This compact disc recording along with a paperback version of the book would be a useful tool for teachers attempting to motivate reluctant readers. I wish that Hubbard's books would become available in a hardbound format that would survive the repeated use in a school library. His books should appeal to young adult as well as adult audiences.
September 6, 2010
Lee returns to his hometown after receiving a letter from his father, asking for help. He’s having problems with a neighbor. By the time Lee returns, his father’s dead. While trying to find the neighbor he believes is responsible, Lee ends up making enemies of pretty much the entire town…except for one girl, who so happens to be the daughter of the man who killed his father.
I enjoyed reading this–first, it’s short, so it can easily be read in one sitting. Secondly (and what’s most important), it’s just fun. These books are total pulp fiction–high on excitement and intrigue.
The best part (at least for me) is the fact that reading Lee’s dialogue, it soon became impossible to not hear Humphrey Bogart reading it in my head. (I blame the fact that I saw part of The Big Sleep recently.) I’ve pretty much only seen him in noirs and Casablanca, but that’s the kind of dialogue it is–short and punchy.
I enjoyed reading this–first, it’s short, so it can easily be read in one sitting. Secondly (and what’s most important), it’s just fun. These books are total pulp fiction–high on excitement and intrigue.
The best part (at least for me) is the fact that reading Lee’s dialogue, it soon became impossible to not hear Humphrey Bogart reading it in my head. (I blame the fact that I saw part of The Big Sleep recently.) I’ve pretty much only seen him in noirs and Casablanca, but that’s the kind of dialogue it is–short and punchy.
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February 15, 2016132p Take the law into your own hands, and you risk losing your grip on everything else 14including your life. Lee Weston 14a young Paul Newman with a Colt revolver at his hip 14is as good-looking as he is quick tempered, and he 19s got a lot to be angry about.
His father murdered, his family ranch torched, he goes gunning for Harvey Dodge 14the man who he 19s convinced is the killer 14and it 19s Lee who ends up on the wrong side of the law. Shot in a gunfight, on the run and running out of time, he holes up in a mountain hideout and waits for death to come find him.
But he wakes up in the arms of a beautiful woman who has beat death to his door and nursed him back to life. She 19s the first and only woman he has ever fallen for, and her name is Ellen Dodge 14Harvey 19s daughter. Can a great loss lead to a great love? Can the search for revenge lead to redemption? The answers lie in the wild heart of the Wild West 14in Branded Outlaw.
His father murdered, his family ranch torched, he goes gunning for Harvey Dodge 14the man who he 19s convinced is the killer 14and it 19s Lee who ends up on the wrong side of the law. Shot in a gunfight, on the run and running out of time, he holes up in a mountain hideout and waits for death to come find him.
But he wakes up in the arms of a beautiful woman who has beat death to his door and nursed him back to life. She 19s the first and only woman he has ever fallen for, and her name is Ellen Dodge 14Harvey 19s daughter. Can a great loss lead to a great love? Can the search for revenge lead to redemption? The answers lie in the wild heart of the Wild West 14in Branded Outlaw.
March 15, 2014
I've listened to a number of these "Golden Age" L. Ron Hubbard stories and this is one of the better ones. They come across like Old Time Radio which I enjoy. The recording has a large cast and background music so it is pleasant to listen to.
Branded Outlaw is set in the old West and is the story of Lee Weston, a sometimes gunfighter who comes back to Pecos New Mexico to find that his father has been murdered. In his quest to avenge his father, he becomes known as a dangerous gunslinger. He must avenge his father, live down his reputation and gain the respect of the girl his loves for his happy ending.
I received this from librarything's EarlyReviewer giveaway program and I've given it an honest review.
Branded Outlaw is set in the old West and is the story of Lee Weston, a sometimes gunfighter who comes back to Pecos New Mexico to find that his father has been murdered. In his quest to avenge his father, he becomes known as a dangerous gunslinger. He must avenge his father, live down his reputation and gain the respect of the girl his loves for his happy ending.
I received this from librarything's EarlyReviewer giveaway program and I've given it an honest review.
September 12, 2013
Branded Outlaw - Stories from the Golden Age, Author: L. Ron Hubbard
When Lee Weston's father writes him that an old enemy, Harvey Dodge, is back in town, Lee rides out in a hurry from Wyoming to Pecos, New Mexico only to find his father murdered and the family ranch burned to the ground. Certain that Dodge is to blame, Lee sets off to settle the score but gets into a fiery Colt showdown in the town of Pecos. Severely wounded, he flees into the mountains just before passing out. As fate would have it, Dodge's beautiful, yet headstrong, daughter, Ellen, secretly nurses him back to health. Each man believes the other is guilty of awful crimes. Who really did it??
When Lee Weston's father writes him that an old enemy, Harvey Dodge, is back in town, Lee rides out in a hurry from Wyoming to Pecos, New Mexico only to find his father murdered and the family ranch burned to the ground. Certain that Dodge is to blame, Lee sets off to settle the score but gets into a fiery Colt showdown in the town of Pecos. Severely wounded, he flees into the mountains just before passing out. As fate would have it, Dodge's beautiful, yet headstrong, daughter, Ellen, secretly nurses him back to health. Each man believes the other is guilty of awful crimes. Who really did it??
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 12, 2017
I've been wanting to dip my toes into some of ol' Hubbard's pulp novels for a while now.
This is about as predictable as a western can be (and I haven't read many westerns), but Hubbard has such a clean style and a great sense of pacing that it makes for an entertaining (albeit shallow) book that you can whiz through in a few hours.
What you see is what you get, and that really isn't a bad thing in this case.
This is about as predictable as a western can be (and I haven't read many westerns), but Hubbard has such a clean style and a great sense of pacing that it makes for an entertaining (albeit shallow) book that you can whiz through in a few hours.
What you see is what you get, and that really isn't a bad thing in this case.
March 6, 2012
It's a decent western revenge tale a little Hollywood, but not a bad read. The plot was a bit predictable and the characters somewhat two dimensional but if you are just looking for a short western to read just for fun, this one will fit the bill. I hope to pick up some of LRH other pulp fiction writings to get an idea of the other genres he has dabbled in.
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