Max Brand was perhaps the greatest storyteller of the American West, and here are three of his best short novels, all restored to their original glory from Brand's own typescripts and presented just as he intended. "The Outlaw Crew" is an exciting tale of gold fever and survival in a frontier mining town. In "The Coward," a man humiliated in a gunfight finds a fiendishly clever way of exacting revenge. And in "Slumber Mountain," Brand presents a harrowing story of man versus the wilderness as a trapper fights for his life against a wolf pack and the mighty wolf known as Silver King. Three perfect examples of Max Brand at his best