Max Brand, RIDERS OF THE SILENCES

The Great West prior to the century’s turn abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind of glorious women whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter McGurk. This story has been rereleased under the alternate title and edition: LUCK {abridged} (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1926) by Max Brand and alternate title and edition: RIDERS OF THE SILENCES {abridged} (Dodd, Mead, 1986) by Max Brand but the text of the 1986 version was abridged and substantially rewritten by another without credit.