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ACTION AND REVENGE IN THE OLD WEST. TONY BRADEN, AN ENGLISHMAN MAKES A GO OF RANCHING AND IS ROBBED, RIDICULED AND CHEATED BY THE GOOD FOLKS OF INDIAN BEND. THEN HE IS KNIFED AND KILLED. TRAF KINNARD SWEARS TO FIND HIS KILLER IN THIS ACTION PACKED ADVENTURE.



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Luke Short

Luke Short (real name Frederick Dilley Glidden) was a popular Western writer. Born in Kewanee, Illinois Glidden attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two and a half years and then transferred to the University of Missouri at Columbia to study journalism. Following graduation in 1930 he worked for a number of newspapers before becoming a trapper in Canada then later moved to New Mexico to be an archeologist's assistant. After reading Western pulp magazines and trying to escape unemployment he started writing Western fiction. He sold his first short story and novel in 1935 under the pen name of Luke Short (which was also the name of a famous gunslinger in the Old West, though it's unclear if he was aware of that when he assumed the pen name. ) After publishing over a dozen novels in the 1930s, he started writing for films in the 40s. In 1948 alone four Luke Short novels appeared as movies. Some of his memorable film credits includes Ramrod (1947) and Blood on the Moon (1948) . He continued to write novels, despite increasing trouble with his eyes, until his death in 1975. His ashes are buried in Aspen, Colorado, his home at the time of his death.



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