TALES OF DRY BOTTOM gathers The Two-Gun Man, The Coming of the Law, and Firebrand Trevison into a compact panorama of the classic frontier West. Across these novels Seltzer stages gunfighters, ranchers, corrupt interests, and nascent legal authority in a landscape where personal honor often precedes civic order. His prose is direct, swift, and visually dramatic, belonging to the early twentieth-century Western tradition that transformed dime-novel adventure into a durable mythology of justice, masculinity, romance, and social formation. Charles Alden Seltzer was an American writer closely associated with the golden age of popular Western fiction. Trained by newspaper work and shaped by the era's fascination with frontier memory, he developed a narrative method marked by clean plotting, terse dialogue, and practical knowledge of ranch-country codes. His fiction reflects a generation looking back at the closing frontier and asking how violence, law, and character forged community. This trilogy is highly recommended for readers interested in foundational Westerns, especially those who value lean storytelling joined to moral conflict. It offers suspense, atmosphere, and historical literary significance, while revealing how the genre's central myths were refined for modern popular fiction. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - Lastly, our hand-picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
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The Two-Gun Man - Stafford is a cattleman from the Two Diamond ranch whose herds are being devastated, so he goes to the town of Dry Bottom in order to find help. He meets Ned Ferguson who starts working undercover as a stray-man at the ranch, with an assignment to dispose rustlers, but his attention is being sidetracked by Mary Radford, a lovely neighbor who lives near the ranch.
The Coming of the Law - Kent Hollis is a young journalist who lives on the East, but when his father dies Hollis returns to Dry Bottom, where he inherits the ranch, and also his father's newspaper - Dry Bottom Kicker. Soon he finds out that the whole town, the county, and sheriff are being controlled and intimidated by a crooked cattleman named Bill Dunlavey, and he starts a decisive and dangerous campaign against him.
"Firebrand" Trevison is a cowboy, an owner of the Diamond K ranch and a stand-up guy who isn't afraid to speak his mind and fight for what is right. Expanding of the railroad from the town of Dry Bottom gets him in conflict with Mr. Corrigan, who is trying to cheat landowners of the county. As always, there is a pretty woman involved.
Charles Alden Seltzer (1875-1942) was a prolific American author of western novels. He wrote his westerns from the experience of living on his uncle's ranch in New Mexico. Seltzer's best works include The Two-Gun Man, The Boss of the Lazy Y, Drag Harlan and West. Many of his novels were turned into Hollywood movies.
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This carefully crafted ebook: "TALES OF DRY BOTTOM Complete Trilogy: The Two-Gun Man, The Coming of the Law & Firebrand Trevison)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Two-Gun Man Stafford is a cattleman from the Two Diamond ranch whose herds are being devastated, so he goes to the town of Dry Bottom in order to find help. He meets Ned Ferguson who starts working undercover as a stray-man at the ranch, with an assignment to dispose rustlers, but his attention is being sidetracked by Mary Radford, a lovely neighbor who lives near the ranch. The Coming of the Law Kent Hollis is a young journalist who lives on the East, but when his father dies Hollis returns to Dry Bottom, where he inherits the ranch, and also his father's newspaper Dry Bottom Kicker. Soon he finds out that the whole town, the county, and sheriff are being controlled and intimidated by a crooked cattleman named Bill Dunlavey, and he starts a decisive and dangerous campaign against him. "Firebrand" Trevison is a cowboy, an owner of the Diamond K ranch and a stand-up guy who isn't afraid to speak his mind and fight for what is right. Expanding of the railroad from the town of Dry Bottom gets him in conflict with Mr. Corrigan, who is trying to cheat landowners of the county. As always, there is a pretty woman involved. Charles Alden Seltzer (1875-1942) was a prolific American author of western novels. He wrote his westerns from the experience of living on his uncle's ranch in New Mexico. Seltzer's best works include The Two-Gun Man, The Boss of the Lazy Y, Drag Harlan and West. Many of his novels were turned into Hollywood movies.