Legendary mountain man Tommy Parks, who grew up alone in the harsh wilderness, must use his extraordinary survival skills to elude a group of settlers who want him captured and killed

Les Tarron was a young man looking for some adventure. Then he met Doran--a mysterious loner on a mysterious errand. When Doran is shot and Les takes on the dying man's job, he's putting himself straight in the crosshairs of a cold-blooded killer. And suddenly he has more excitement than he ever bargained for. On the run and dodging an army of hired gunmen, Les has only one goal in mind: finish his mission and find ... THE CITY IN THE SKY.

"In three western stories, men risk their hero status in the community in order for truth to prevail"--

The Black Rider and Other Stories collects three short novels and one short story by Max Brand originally published in magazines and never reprinted before; they appear here for the first time in book form. At first publication the stories often suffered from editors' cuts to make them fit available page space. Editor Jon Tuska has returned to the original manuscripts to restore Brand's full texts. The stories are set in that land Brand calls the...

"An outlaw known only as Kingbird goes from being pursued to being the pursuer when he is asked to find the Blair's missing daughter, who is also his friend"--