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Read by Barry PressA work from the pen of renowned Western author Max Brand - - Peter Dunstan is a big rancher who wants to become bigger to control more land So when he buys Dr Henry Morgans ranchland that has been unsuccessfully converted to farming it is his intention to return it to open range The only stipulation the doctor makes is that Dunstan must retain Sandy Sweyn who has more or less been Dr Morgans ward Though the man is of age he is generally considered a half-wit even by the doctor Still Sandy has a fabulous gift he can communicate with animals The most refractory and savage bronco will yield to his subtly persuasive methods even when expert horse breakers have failed - - After Sandy gentles the totally recalcitrant gelding that Dunstan has been trying to break to the reins he claims that his mare Cleo though used only for drudgery could easily outrun the gelding in a race Dunstan is so contemptuous of this boast that he bets and ownership of the gelding if he loses the race As it turns out Cleo readily wins - - Rather than indulging his anger Dunstan decides to use Sandys gifts to his advantage by getting him seemingly impossible tasks The problem is that after each of these incredible tasks is accomplished some personal misfortune befalls Dunstan Finally Dunstan drives Sandy into the mountain wilderness where his prowess eventually becomes legendary But banishment is no solution for Dunstan when he comes to need Sandy more than ever and his only way of getting him back is to resort to trickery.
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(see also ) , aka Frank Austin, , Walter C Butler, George Challis, Evan Evans, Frederick Faust, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, Peter Henry MorlandMax Brand, one of America's most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.
