This story is a conclusion to an installment story of two parts that appeared in Five Stat Westerns. The story is about a gentle giant who sees deeply into the human soul. Bull Hunter is this man and he becomes romantically intertwined with a ranch owner’s daughter who is being courted by the ruthless large ranch owner. She only wants the man who has nothing and runs away to catch up with him so she can spend her life with him.

The story has many twists and turns and an encounter with a bad man who sees into her soul and he cares for her and sends her after her love with the directions to meet him. I enjoyed the story and was taken by the way the author helped magnify the depth of the characters.

The book is a short western story written by Frederick Faust under the name of Max Brand. This story is about an eastern young man who is challenged by a woman to grow some backbone. She told him he could get this backbone by going west and being more like the men in the west instead of being browbeaten by the men that he knew and worked for.

This leads to an adventure, which suddenly goes wrong on his train ride to the west. He looses his money and is knocked off the train by an over zealous conductor. He survives the fall and is in a land that he does not know or want to know. He is witness to a double murder and things get really complicated for him from that point on. I will save all of the ins and outs for your reading.

I felt that it was an excellent story and was well worth the time to read and digest the meat of this good western story. I definitely recommend this story to those who enjoy a good western with some uniqueness in the story line.

Yes this is a western story written by Max Brand from the trio collection book Men Beyond the Law. The main character of this story Christopher Royal is not beyond the law but the youngest brother of four. He is afraid that he is a coward because he does not want to fight or kill. All of his brothers have proven their bravery with different act that were publicly exhibited. Chris is pushed into killing the brother of a know murder of men Harry Main.

The story has Chris planning his run away from the potential of being gunned down. He leaves and only telling his mother who is also a brave woman. She knows that death would be better for Chris than the life of a fear consumed man. She sends the murder a note telling him where he will be waiting for him at a cabin in the woods.

The story continues and an old Indian is encountered and he tell him the story of his life. I will stop here with my evaluation of the story so that I don’t give away the ending. This is a western story that I would not have picked to read but it is unusual and has all of the qualities needed to be a western story. You maybe should read this story because it is short and evaluate it on your own.