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"Carcajou's Trail" is about John Banner, who is hired to protect two men being led by a blind man to a rich cache of gold. "Señor Billy" Jeffers is admired by Mexicans but rejected by Anne Calhoun, who favors Dixie Trimble. Sworn not to hurt the cowardly Dixie, Bill sets out to make him a hero. In the title story, John Cameron, who is part Indian, faces prejudice when he tries to avenge the robbery and brutal murder of his partner in a mining claim....

In Max Brand's stories no character is either a hero or a villain, and most are mixtures of both. That is certainly the case in "The Ghost Wagon," first published in 1921. Both Lew Carney and Jack Doyle love Mary Hamilton and she has plans of her own. "Rodeo Ranch" proved one of Brand's most popular short novels when it first appeared in Western Story Magazine in 1923. "Slip Liddel" is set during the Depression and centers on a poor man's revenge....