Orem Library

Through the years, James Geraldi has proven to be one of Max Brand's most exciting and enduring characters, and this volume contains three of his greatest exploits. Geraldi has been dubbed the "Frigate Bird" because of his habit of stealing from thieves, and Edgar Asprey knows just how apt the name is. Geraldi once prevented Asprey from swindling his family out of a fortune, and managed to get rich doing it. That's exactly why Asprey now wants to...

Silas Durfee had come up against a lot of outlaws as a Texas Ranger, but he had never encountered one as cold and cruel as Spot Lester. There was a man who would as soon slit a throat as swat a fly. Hating Durfee for foiling one of his plans, Lester schemed and plotted and dreamed of the day he'd kill Durfee. Finally that day came. He had Durfee right where he wanted him -- trapped in Torture Canyon where the heat was enough to turn a man's brain...

Juan Oro, raised by Yaqui Indians, was unquestionably American, though he would never know his parents or where he had come from. In a battle between the Yaqui and the Spanish, Juan is captured and befriended by Don Jose Fontana, a wealthy Spanish grandee who later sends Juan be tutored by the notorious outlaw, Matias Bordi. Juan will become the surest shot, the deadliest hand with a knife - a true master of weapons and battle. The cost? He must kill...

Outlaw Laurence Grey, or El Diablo, agrees to ride to Mexico to track down Johnny Ray, a man who has been missing for fifteen years. Ray is now the heir to a large fortune--but there's a reward of $50,000 for Grey, dead or alive, offered by those who want to keep Ray from surfacing.

When rancher Tom Baldwin is mortally wounded by an old enemy, he leaves his ranch and his money to the six industrious sons who have helped build it into a successful enterprise. To Flash, his never-do-well seventh son, Baldwin leaves a six-gun, a thoroughbred, and the task of avenging his death.

Pierre Ryder has been forged by the sternest of frontier Jesuits for the hard life of a missionary priest in the frozen wastes of the Far North. Into this life of gentleness, a thunderbolt descends in the form of a letter from his father, long thought dead, who lies dying of a bullet wound. Ignoring the pleas of the good priests, Pierre rides at once to avenge his father, into a life and a country far from all he has ever known. When he meets Jackqueline...

Doc Oliver and Bob Melville are two fugitives eking out a living in Alaska. Then their solitude is disturbed by the arrival of the man who framed Melville years ago.

The Montana Kid joins forces with the bandit Rubriz to destroy a gang that is looting churches.

"The Montana Kid, "El Keed" south of the border, slips a marriage noose to join Mateo Rubriz, prince of Mexican outlaws, in a wild cross-border raid. The target: a gold and emerald crown stolen by the governor of Duraya from the church under his protection! In Duraya, Montana and Rubriz have no problem getting into the governor's fort, even finding the crown. It's the getting out that nearly undoes them!"--Product description.

In the first story, a dust storm brings on a fight between ranchers for water. In the second story, an outlaw goes after the killer of the man willing to give him refuge.