The Hanging X

by Robert J. Horton

Book Overview

THE OUTLAW TRAIL

Gail Landon is a young man who wants adventure and excitement, and life on his parents' ranch, the Hanging X, can't satisfy him. So he turns to the outlaw trail instead and saddles up with the notorious Trantler gang. But on the very night the gang is planning a big robbery, Gail receives word that his parents have been killed and he has inherited the Hanging X. There's no way to escape the gang, but Gail's had enough...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477840508
• ISBN13: 9781477840504
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Amazon Publishing
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Definitely a keeper

The Hanging X is just a good rousing read! After having read everything written by Louis L'Amour and Max Brand (and all Brand's pseudonyms), I was looking for something comparable though I hate to "try out" a new author. Horton has not disappointed me. Gail Landon, whose mother married a man who could not accept the son of her firat husband, leaves home at 16 at his stepfather's urging. Gail is too feisty to settle down to the demands of ranching and seeks adventure, falling in with an outlaw bunch that robs a bank cum saloon. He receives word that both parents were killed in a wagon accident, leaving him the ranch, and he gladly leaves the outlaw trail to go home. There he has the assistance of the sheriff, the town banker, and the town lawyer and Gail needs all the help he can get because both his past on the ranch and his past on the outlaw trail are coming back to haunt him with a vengeance. Throw in a rustling-on-the-side ranch foreman who thinks Gail is still too wet behind the ears to manage a ranch, an outlaw bent on blackmail, and some crew members who may be untrustworthy, and Gail has enough to keep him awake nights. Then he renews acquaintance with Doris, a childhood friend from the adjacent ranch for whom the adult Gail discovers an attraction, and Gail has so much on his plate that it starts to fall off the edges. This is a very good read and one you will find hard to put down once you start. Begin on a Friday and plan for an allnighter . . . it's that good! And Horton maintains the action-filled suspense down to the last couple of pages. Don't miss this one.