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Bitter Sage
Linford Western Library.
Unjustly branded a killer, Wes Tancred vowed never to touch a gun again. So he rode the trail alone, changed his name and hoped to lose himself in the new bustle the railroad brought to Sage City. Then Hong Kong Smith and his killers rode into town. When they shot innocent victims, Wes knew that he had to strap on his guns again.
Unjustly branded a killer, Wes Tancred vowed never to touch a gun again. So he rode the trail alone, changed his name and hoped to lose himself in the new bustle the railroad brought to Sage City. Then Hong Kong Smith and his killers rode into town. When they shot innocent victims, Wes knew that he had to strap on his guns again.
- GenresWesterns
291 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1954
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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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November 8, 2020
A good western with plenty of gunplay as a gunman must fight the bad people who have taken over a town. There are a couple of good plot twists to keep this moving. A quick read. Recommended to fans of westerns.
August 25, 2017
This book is by the gentleman who produced the TV show Tales of Wells Fargo
August 9, 2024
gritty, stiff, dusty, and without frill. when someone dies, someone dies - that’s that.
this line just about sums up the tone of the book: “Then he had breakfast at the Bon Ton Café and stood for a little while outside the restaurant.”
there goes Wes, just standin.
this line just about sums up the tone of the book: “Then he had breakfast at the Bon Ton Café and stood for a little while outside the restaurant.”
there goes Wes, just standin.
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April 11, 2010Wes Tancred had spent nine years fleeing a song, a ballad that told how Sam Older, the "Robin Hood" of crime had been shot in the back by his best friend for the $10,000 reward and amnesty.
That wasn;t how it had happened. Older had tried to shoot him and Wes was just faster. He didn't accept the reward, though with the amnesty, it was a chance for a fresh start.
The ballad became very popular and Wes kept moving, now known as John Bailey.
When he settled in Sage City and took a job in which he was skilled, running a printing machine at the local newspaper, he found himself in the middle of a power struggle. On one side was the rich man that owned or controlled most businesses, his tame judge, a vicious cattle owner and his drovers that brought the rich man a lot of money and the crusading newspaper editor, that was running for mayor, and a few honest citizens.
Wes knew which side he was going to take.
That wasn;t how it had happened. Older had tried to shoot him and Wes was just faster. He didn't accept the reward, though with the amnesty, it was a chance for a fresh start.
The ballad became very popular and Wes kept moving, now known as John Bailey.
When he settled in Sage City and took a job in which he was skilled, running a printing machine at the local newspaper, he found himself in the middle of a power struggle. On one side was the rich man that owned or controlled most businesses, his tame judge, a vicious cattle owner and his drovers that brought the rich man a lot of money and the crusading newspaper editor, that was running for mayor, and a few honest citizens.
Wes knew which side he was going to take.
December 23, 2008
Not terribly memorable.
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