Outlaws All: A Western Trio

by Max Brand

WesternLarge Print EditionThis trio of novellas by one of the masters of American short fiction opens with Alec the Great, set in Alaska during the Gold Rush. Here is the background of the bitter enmity that destroyed the great friendship between Hugh Massey and Arnie Calmont, known to Brands readers from Sixteen in Nome. Riding into Peril is the story of Kantwell Irving Dangerfield, otherwise known as The Kid. Thrown into jail on a spurious charge, The Kid makes his escape and embarks on a life of adventure and danger, meeting the enchanting Marianne Justis when hes hired to track down a mysterious renegade known as The Phantom. Outlaws All tells how Bull Hunter, that gentle giant of a man who sees so deeply into the human soul, encounters and is befriended by a mighty wolf dog known as The Ghost.

Genres: Westerns, Fiction

352 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

Frederick Schiller Faust (see also Frederick Faust), aka Frank Austin, George Owen Baxter, Walter C. Butler, George Challis, Evin Evan, Evan Evans, Frederick Faust, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, Peter Henry Morland, Lee Bolt, Peter Dawson, Martin Dexter, Dennis Lawson, M.B., Hugh Owen, Nicholas Silver

Max Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.

Reviews

[D. E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

A MB. Triple Western Adventure: (1. - Alex the Great) (2. - Riding Into Peril) (3. - Outlaws All)

MB. has. penned three western adventures: (1) Alex the Great - Six puppies are born in the Alaskan Artic. Over night five die. The survivor becomes the dog the any Alaska would love to have. The dog becomes the leader of Dogs attached to one man. (2.) Riding Into Peril - A Young Man of the West is born with a silver spoon in his mouth. As he grows up he becomes the man everyone had hoped he wouldn't turn bad. He's good with guns and horses and nothing else. His Uncle tries to get him to change his attitude, but he doesnt. (3.) Outlaws - The Outlaws are formed over a period of time. A cowboy rescues and takes a wild stallion and no one else can get near him. The same man saves a Wolf dog and changes the Wolf dog into just a dog, but only to one man and a horse. They join forces with an actual crook until joins them forming the Outlaws. These three novels are excellent reads for the genre.....DEHS

[Ronald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Three stories: a prologue to his book "Sixteen in Nome", Outlaws All," and the third Bull Hunter story.

[Peter Charleston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Contains three nicely written short story westerns. Enjoyable adventures.