128 pages
Published 1933
Read August 30
Rating: 1.5 out of 5
I had absolutely zero cause to read this book, other than getting unexpectedly drawn into it while browsing a pulp novel PDF archive. It’s a paint-by-numbers western about a fair and lanky cowpoke solving problems and seeking vengeance with his six-guns. There’s the usual bullshit of the time where all the unsavory characters are swarthy. It isn’t good by any stretch of the imagination. But MacDonald hit upon the formula for zippy prose that gets out of its own way, making for much more readable pulp than most of what I’ve read from this era.
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