L. Ron Hubbard
Take the law into your own hands, and you risk losing your grip on everything elseâ€”including your life. Lee Westonâ€”a young Paul Newman with a Colt revolver at his hipâ€”is as good-looking as he is quick tempered, and heâ€™s got a lot to be angry about.,His father murdered, his family ranch torched, he goes gunning for Harvey Dodgeâ€”the man who heâ€™s convinced is the killerâ€”and itâ€™s Lee who ends up on the wrong side of the law. Shot in a gunfight, on the run and running out of time, he holes up in a mountain hideout and waits for death to come find him.,But he wakes up in the arms of a beautiful woman who has beat death to his door and nursed him back to life. Sheâ€™s the first and only woman he has ever fallen for, and her name is Ellen Dodgeâ€”Harveyâ€™s daughter. Can a great loss lead to a great love? Can the search for revenge lead to redemption? The answers lie in the wild heart of the Wild Westâ€”in Branded Outlaw.,L. Ron Hubbard was so prolific, and his stories so much in demand, he occasionally had to publish under a pseudonym to ensure that his name wouldnâ€™t appear twice in a single issue of a magazine. Thus did Branded Outlaw originally appear as being written by a writer named Barry Randolph. But as is clear from the action and authenticity of the story, it was Hubbard behind the curtain pulling the levers. This is one of sixteen westerns Hubbard wrote in 1938â€”all influenced by a foray into New Mexico to round out his research. His unsurpassed knowledge of the West originated in his years growing upâ€”and riding onâ€”the range.,
  ,â€œPacks a ton of action and some priceless shootout scenes.â€,
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Westerns,Fiction,Pulp
Branded Outlaw: A Tale of Wild Hearts in the Wild West