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Broken Lance
HELLBENT
ON REVENGE...
That was John Leach, a man who rode across the West of the 1870's, relentlessly tracking the desperadoes who had gunned down his sweetheart. The chase began in Chicago, where he caught the first killer. It led to Fort Lincoln, Nebraska, where he enlisted in the 7th Cavalry, biding his time, fighting the Indians, and finding a new love. But Leach was determined to go on until he found those he'd sworn to kill. And he met them at last, in the midst of a deadly massacre that threatened to wipe out his entire regiment...
BROKEN LANCE,
by Frank Gruber-a stirring novel of the frontier by one of the greatest of all Western novelists.
ON REVENGE...
That was John Leach, a man who rode across the West of the 1870's, relentlessly tracking the desperadoes who had gunned down his sweetheart. The chase began in Chicago, where he caught the first killer. It led to Fort Lincoln, Nebraska, where he enlisted in the 7th Cavalry, biding his time, fighting the Indians, and finding a new love. But Leach was determined to go on until he found those he'd sworn to kill. And he met them at last, in the midst of a deadly massacre that threatened to wipe out his entire regiment...
BROKEN LANCE,
by Frank Gruber-a stirring novel of the frontier by one of the greatest of all Western novelists.
156 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1948
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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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January 18, 2021
My first Frank Gruber book, but certainly not my last. While I'm still getting a feel for the genre beyond more recent popular authors, this was a fine story well told.
I'm really drawn to authors writing westerns during the the 50's and 60's and Mr Gruber certainly was prolific and talented. His work has aged well, and is engrossing.
It's remarkable to look at the price of the paperback copy I have, see it's $0.25 price tag and speculate what authors earned as payment for such works back then. It certainly never paid for early retirement on the Rivera at the authors fraction of the two bit cost of the book.
I'm really drawn to authors writing westerns during the the 50's and 60's and Mr Gruber certainly was prolific and talented. His work has aged well, and is engrossing.
It's remarkable to look at the price of the paperback copy I have, see it's $0.25 price tag and speculate what authors earned as payment for such works back then. It certainly never paid for early retirement on the Rivera at the authors fraction of the two bit cost of the book.
February 4, 2018
An excellent novel. An excellent western with a very young Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood and Spenser Tracy.
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