One of a series of pulp Western novels by Max Brand featuring Silvertip, a heroic lone rider who metes out justice to various wrong-doers he runs across in his travels. <P> “No pulp writer was more prolific than Frederick Faust, who wrote nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. He sold all his stories and sometimes wrote complete issues of Western Story Magazine.” – The Incredible Pulps ...
The hooded Faceless Riders had spread a trail of terror and death along the Rio Grande. Striking where they were least expected, the outlaw band had thrown the whole territory into panic. And the toll from their guns was overflowing Boot Hill.<P> As the ace undercover Ranger Walt Slade rode into the Border country, he knew that only one man could rod a gang so ruthlessly. And that man was Slade's bitter arch-enemy Veck Sosna, ...
They called Amarillo “the Cowboy Capital" – but “Corpse-and-Cartridge City" would have been a better name after Veck Sosna and his Comancheros rode In! <P> Walt Slade, undercover ace of the Texas Rangers, tried every dodge he knew to trap Sosna, but the tricky, vicious outlaw was always one step ahead of him…until the bullet-filled night when Ranger and bandit chief met face to face at the end of The Hate Trail! ...
FEUD RAGED LIKE WILDFIRE – An old feud, a blood feud – and out of Great Lost Valley rode Gage Gardin to corner one of Louis Peele's gunhawks m the lonely desert. Meanwhile, Peele raided the Circle Crossbar – ruthlessly killing Gage's horses, gunning his best men, stealing his sweetheart, Mary Silver…<P> Gage hit the backtrail with flaring six-shooters, gunfight following gunfight as he blasted through the leadslingers between hi ...
A RACE WITH DEATH!<P> The mighty bridge crossing the Rio Grande was to be the final step in the completion of the railroad and the taming of the West. But when Ranger Walt Slade saw the plans, he knew there was a sinister enemy at work – for the bridge was being built deliberately so that it would collapse at the first flood! Tracking his hidden adversary, facing ambush, arson, and dynamite blasts, the undercover ace of the Texas Rangers ...
Violence and rumored rebellion had turned the border country into a powder keg primed to explode at any second. The mysterious “Liberator" called for war – and men who spoke against him died suddenly!<P> Walt Slade, undercover ace of the Texas Rangers, rode into Matamoros, a one-man task force with the deadly job of stopping a revolution before it started. For Slade knew that “The Liberator" was none other than Veck Sosna, the most ruthle ...
"You’re on your way to HELL!"<P> The outlaw Roush brothers whirled from the bar at the sound of the harsh voice. What they saw was a kid not yet eighteen – but what a kid! <P>He was Jimmy Clanton, a tough rawhider who had notched his first killing two years before. «What do you want with us?» growled Dave Roush. His brother Hugh moved slowly along the bar.<P> The kid, hands propped on his hips, watched quietly. «I'm ...
MUSTANG! The pride of his rancher owner, Mustang was stolen by a wandering cowboy and traded from hand to hand. Nobody could touch spur to him. Swift as the wind, the big bay won the only race he entered – and kept on running, back to the open range. He wanted no more of men. Then, trapped by horse hunters, chased by cowboys eager for his capture, Mustang finally rejoined his owner in a desperate race with a blizzard. A classic western novel by ...
He'd been warned against the Wild Ones, but something made him ignore the warning. They terrorized the territory, bullied and scared the settlers into cooperating with them, and from what Chet Kelvin could figure out, they seemed to be operating from the mysterious IXL Ranch. If there was anything Chet couldn’t stand it was a mystery, but once he started solving it he wished he’d let it alone. ...
