‘Firebrand’ Trevison by Charles Alden Seltzer

Description

Before there was Manti, and before there was a railroad to argue about, there was a party of khaki-clad men cutting through the country, and the town grew up in their wake. At the center of the story stands a man with a reputation to feed and an instinct for trouble: Trevison, undisputed on his own range, proud and quick to settle a grievance from the saddle of a black horse.

The quarrel arrives with the ties and the steel, backed by money and a legal gloss that puts honest men off balance, and Trevison’s own honesty proves to be more flammable than his enemies expected. Between the two sides stands a woman whose loyalty refuses to be purchased, and the chase, the ambush and the showdown are conducted with the economy that made Seltzer a master of the form. The country is hard, the justice is rough and the ride is exactly as fast as the title promises.

What makes this western sing

• The texture of the real range, railroads and towns materializing out of sagebrush.
• A hero whose flaw is precisely his strength.
• Lean, cinematic action writing from a genre lodestar.

About This DodaBooks Edition

The full 29 chapters are reset in clean, continuous type with a working index.