Gun Boss of Tumbleweed (Western Short Stories Collection) - Softcover

Hubbard, L Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592122744 ISBN 13: 9781592122745

Publisher: Galaxy Press (CA), 2013

Synopsis

Mart Kincaid, a tall, ruggedly good-looking young man in the Clint Eastwood mold, may be the fastest gun in the state, but it does him no good—because his gun and his life are not his own.  They belong to Gar Malone, the King of Concha Basin, a ruthless rancher driven by his thirst for power, wealth, and conquest.

 Now Gar has set his sights on the Singing Canyon spread—the richest land in the basin—and he commands Kincaid to run its true owners off.  If not, he threatens to reveal a dark secret that could ruin Kincaid’s brother.

 But there’s more to the Singing Canyon ranch than Kincaid bargained for.  There’s the Drake family—specifically the lovely young Sally Drake.  The last thing Kincaid wants to do is drive her away.  Meaning he’s got to get out from under Gar’s thumb, and put his trigger finger to work.  It’s time to settle up, once and for all, with the blackmailing Malone. 

 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 adventure Blood on His Spurs, in which two men have to find a way to end their feud . . . or pay a high price in blood and money.

 “Heart-racing plot charges at the speed of thrumming horses’ hooves.” —Library Journal

About this title

About the Author:

As one of the 20 top bestselling authors of all time, with more than 325 million works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard stands alongside an illustrious company of writers. But he also stands alone—as an author who actually lived many of the stories he wrote.

From Booklist:

As much as he hates him, gunman Mart Kincaid is working for the ruthless and despicable land baron Gar Malone, helping to force people off their land. But eventually Malone goes too far, and Kincaid decides it’s time to put him out of business once and for all. Western pulp fiction was a genre in which Hubbard particularly excelled, and this story, which first appeared in 1949, is tense and exciting, with an appropriately larger-than-life, scenery-chewing villain and a hero with more than a hint of moral ambiguity (Kincaid is, after all, a hired gun). The book’s other story, “Blood on His Spurs” (also from 1949), tells the tale of two men who’ve hated each other for years but are forced to work together when one of their children is in jeopardy. The action is solid, but it’s the character development—a phrase you don’t often associate with pulp fiction—that keeps us turning the pages as Bates and McLean learn to put aside their old differences. Two entertaining western stories under one cover? That’s a deal that’s hard to beat for genre fans. --David Pitt

About this edition

• Publisher: Galaxy Press (CA)
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1592122744
• ISBN 13: 9781592122745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 131