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The Hell Bent Kid
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2025 Oct-Dec: The Hell Bent Kid by Charles O Locke
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My copy should be here by the 11th. Looks like a fun one!
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The protagonist of the book is Tot Lohman, the eponymous Hell Bent Kid a mild mannered teenager but a crack shot. Lohman shoots dead a man from the Boyd family in self defense, and the vicious and numerous Boyd family is set on revenge. Lohman flees to New Mexico Territory to seek his father. The journey, across desert canyon country and pursued by the Boyds, is arduous and dangerous.
The Hell Bent Kid was selected by the Western Writers of America as one of the twenty-five best Western novels ever written.
It was adapted into the 1958 movie From Hell to Texas.