Under the Diehard Brand |
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| Author:
| Hubbard, L. Ron |
| Series title: | Western Short Stories Collection |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59212-798-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2009 |
| Publisher: | Galaxy Press, LLC
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $4.99 |
Book Description:
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In the classic western movie The Searchers Jeffrey Hunter plays a young man with a mission in his heart and a chip on his shoulder. Such is eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson, a trail-hand on a mission of his own--to save his dad, an aging sheriff who's lost control of his town. Lee's plan is a dangerous one-mix in with the desperadoes and risk death at their hand. But sometimes, the only way to restore the law is to break it.
Most of the Westerns published in the...
More DescriptionIn the classic western movie The Searchers Jeffrey Hunter plays a young man with a mission in his heart and a chip on his shoulder. Such is eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson, a trail-hand on a mission of his own--to save his dad, an aging sheriff who's lost control of his town. Lee's plan is a dangerous one-mix in with the desperadoes and risk death at their hand. But sometimes, the only way to restore the law is to break it.
Most of the Westerns published in the all-fiction magazines of the first half of the twentieth century were written by authors more familiar with the streets of New York than the cattle trails of Texas. Hubbard bucked the trend, and in the process changed the face of the Western adventure. He grew up in a time and a place where the Old West, though fading, still lived. His unique knowledge of the frontier, of its ways and its people, made him an authentic voice of this unique American experience.
Also includes the Western adventures, Hoss Tamer, in which a circus horse trainer turned bronco buster has to figure a way to tame a gang of outlaws, and The Ghost Town Gun Ghost, the story of an old prospector who seems to have lost his wits; but is he crazy . . . or crazy like a fox?
"Rife with action and adventure and laced with melodramatic undertones." --Library Journal