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The Dawn Riders
- GenresWesterns
Paperback
Published September 1, 1982
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Frank Gruber
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Frank Gruber was an enormously prolific author of pulp fiction. A stalwart contributor to Black Mask magazine, he also wrote novels, producing as many as four a year during the 1940s. His best-known character was Oliver Quade, “the Human Encyclopedia,” whose adventures were collected in Brass Knuckles (1966), and will soon be republished in ebook format as Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia,featuring brand-new material, from MysteriousPress.com, Open Road Integrated Media, and Black Mask magazine.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Frank Gruber was an enormously prolific author of pulp fiction. A stalwart contributor to Black Mask magazine, he also wrote novels, producing as many as four a year during the 1940s. His best-known character was Oliver Quade, “the Human Encyclopedia,” whose adventures were collected in Brass Knuckles (1966), and will soon be republished in ebook format as Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia,featuring brand-new material, from MysteriousPress.com, Open Road Integrated Media, and Black Mask magazine.
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March 7, 2024
I mean it was fine it was cowboy fun but where the hell did they get the title The Dawn Riders there is literally nothing in the book to call that… for real just picked a badass name
April 1, 2010
When Sam Parker was released from prison, he just wanted to live a quiet life. Drifting, picking up a little money from odd jobs, he never intended to intervene in the saloon when the pickpocket was caught with his hand in Jim Duke's pocket. Celebrating the sale of his herd, Duke was attacked by the thief and his partner, with knife and truncheon, and the partner jostled Parker, taking an angry swipe at him.
The fight didn't last long and Parker was soon helping Duke to the docotr and then his room. He's offered and accepts a job down in Texas. He wants out of Kansas anyway. He has an infamous name, his real one, from the war and in Kansas, someone was sure to recognize him sooner or later, though rumors said he was dead.
The ramrod doesn't like him and keeps prodding until the pair fight. Parker wins of course. Eleven years of beatings in prison had toughened him.
Duke plans two more cattle drives before the season ends and since Parker won't go back to Kansas, the ramrod takes the first, with Duke to follow a few weeks later when the second has been gathered. Parker will be left in charge of the ranch.
Plans go awry when Duke breaks his leg in a fall and Parker has to take the herd to Kansas.
Trouble waits for him there. A rich man controls the town, a former Union officer upon which Parker's bloody reputation, mostly a bunch off lies, has been built. And a man who knows him from the old days waits there as well.
The fight didn't last long and Parker was soon helping Duke to the docotr and then his room. He's offered and accepts a job down in Texas. He wants out of Kansas anyway. He has an infamous name, his real one, from the war and in Kansas, someone was sure to recognize him sooner or later, though rumors said he was dead.
The ramrod doesn't like him and keeps prodding until the pair fight. Parker wins of course. Eleven years of beatings in prison had toughened him.
Duke plans two more cattle drives before the season ends and since Parker won't go back to Kansas, the ramrod takes the first, with Duke to follow a few weeks later when the second has been gathered. Parker will be left in charge of the ranch.
Plans go awry when Duke breaks his leg in a fall and Parker has to take the herd to Kansas.
Trouble waits for him there. A rich man controls the town, a former Union officer upon which Parker's bloody reputation, mostly a bunch off lies, has been built. And a man who knows him from the old days waits there as well.
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