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Wooden Guns
Working hard to establish himself as the fastest gun the Western mountains, Big Jim Conover is driven from his home only to return years later, a broken man facing a score of vengeful enemies. Reprint.
- GenresWesterns
315 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1997
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Max Brand
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Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.
Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.
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January 30, 2024
Big Jim Connover had grown up. The bull of the woods.
No man able to take him with fists or guns.
He was feared and shown respect.
Then he went away to find his fortune.
A message comes from his adoptive father. He needed to come home before his father died.
His relations a clan of toughs, and outlaws. That had lived on the same land.
Big Jim returns.
The problem being, he had suffered an accident.
His strong right hand, no longer good for fighting or shooting.
Can he reign in his family, before the law wipes them out?
Even worse a tenderfoot from back east arrives. With medical knowledge.
That let's him understand. Why Jim is no longer walking so tall.
Looking to exploit it, for his own gain.
Worse he also is after the same woman, as Jim.
One will rise to the top. The other will find out.
Even with big talk. His gun is wooden and no good in this fight.
This is a very different type of western. Not the traditional story expected.
A nice change of events so to speak.
No man able to take him with fists or guns.
He was feared and shown respect.
Then he went away to find his fortune.
A message comes from his adoptive father. He needed to come home before his father died.
His relations a clan of toughs, and outlaws. That had lived on the same land.
Big Jim returns.
The problem being, he had suffered an accident.
His strong right hand, no longer good for fighting or shooting.
Can he reign in his family, before the law wipes them out?
Even worse a tenderfoot from back east arrives. With medical knowledge.
That let's him understand. Why Jim is no longer walking so tall.
Looking to exploit it, for his own gain.
Worse he also is after the same woman, as Jim.
One will rise to the top. The other will find out.
Even with big talk. His gun is wooden and no good in this fight.
This is a very different type of western. Not the traditional story expected.
A nice change of events so to speak.
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