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She's the first and only woman he has ever fallen for, and her name is Ellen Dodge--Harvey'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 West--in Branded Outlaw.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eL. 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 wouldn'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 1938--all influenced by a foray into New Mexico to round out his research. 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Just ask Brazos--a dead ringer for Jack Palance who's a cold-blooded killer for hire with blood on his hands and a posse on his tail.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesperate for cash, Brazos accepts $200 to gun down a local man named Brant. He'll earn every penny . . . but in the end there'll be the devil to pay. Because to put a bullet in Brant means putting one in his partner as well--an eerie stranger schooled in the black art of witchcraft. This is one killing that brings with it a deadly curse--and a second shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs Brazos is about to discover, the Wild West doesn't get any wilder than when a man is damned to live--and die--in the Shadows from Boot Hill.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA note from L. Ron Hubbard, written many years ago, that could as well be addressed to you, today's reader: \"Dear Range Boss: Four million of my words have been published in fifty different magazines. . . . Just now I'm larruping fantasy fiction more than anything else, though I've been writing Westerns for some time, too. Hope your readers like Shadows from Boot Hill. The Old West was superstitious in the extreme and . . . reeks with more fantasy than The Arabian Nights.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlso includes the Western adventures \u003ci\u003eThe Gunner from GehennaGunman!\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of an aging gunfighter turned lawman who shows his town what a real man is made of.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A minor masterpiece.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e--author Will Murray\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49595431584017,"sku":"GOR012813519","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50392728076561,"sku":"CIN1592123996VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1592123996.jpg?v=1751375238"},{"product_id":"tinhorn-s-daughter-book-l-ron-hubbard-9781592123728","title":"Tinhorn's Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eSunset Maloney is about to find big trouble in the Big Sky country of Montana. Like Alan Ladd as Shane, he's riding into the middle of a ruthless land grab, and his fight for what's right takes an unexpected turn . . . in the face of a young, attractive woman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlim Trotwood is a cruel, greedy tinhorn--a gambler with little money and less skill--who's determined to take possession of all the land in Puma Pass, whether by fraud or by force. And Sunset's the only man willing to take him on. Faster than greased lightning with his six-gun, nothing can stop him from taking Trotwood down . . . until he meets Tinhorn's Daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJust arrived from Boston, she's as naïve as she is beautiful, and Sunset falls hard for her. But if he can't make her see what kind of man her father really is, he may fall even harder. Because if he loses this fight, Sunset may never see the sunrise again.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHailing from the western states of Nebraska, Oklahoma and Montana, Hubbard grew up surrounded by grizzled frontiersmen and leather-tough cowboys. 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But other than cooking three squares a day for the cowpunchers over at the Lazy G ranch, Laramie's not good for much. He's about as heroic as Walter Brennan on a bender.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut Laramie's luck--and life--are about to take an amazing turn. Quite by accident, he somehow manages to save a family of Mexicans from bandits, and as a token of their gratitude they give him The Magic Quirt--a horsewhip that he's told will turn him into a new man.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe transformation is indeed magical. Suddenly Laramie is performing feats of ingenuity and courage that would make even the Lone Ranger proud. But magic is a funny thing--and as Laramie's about to discover, sometimes it's all an illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eL. Ron Hubbard wrote of his childhood: \"The weather of Montana is, of course, brutal. The country is immense and swallows up men rather easily, hence they have to live bigger than life to survive. 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