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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aCunningham, Eugene,
_d1896-1957
245 1 0 _aWanted—?
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from the May 1927 issue of Frontier Stories magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-03
508 _aRoger Frank and Sue Clark
520 _a"Wanted—? by Eugene Cunningham" is a Western short story written in the early 20th century. The tale follows a young Texas Ranger known as Ware’s Kid as he hunts the suspected killer of a ranch partner in the border country, blending pursuit, frontier justice, and moral ambiguity against a stark desert backdrop. The story opens with Ware’s Kid in Dallas, where a barroom dustup proves his mettle before he teams with deputy Bos’ Johnson to interrupt a Sam Bass train robbery at Mesquite. Wounded in the fight, the Ranger discovers Johnson is actually Dell Spreen, the man accused of murdering Eph Carson; yet Spreen saves his life and swears he’s innocent. Reconstructing the ambush at El Castillo, the Ranger realizes the killer had to be a much taller man. He delivers Spreen to Austin for protection and returns to the O-Bar country, where an unseen rifleman tries to kill him. At the ranch he meets grim owner Simeon Rutter and Rutter’s melancholy daughter; together he revisits the murder site and finds a distinctive knife. While camping at Hueco Tanks, Apaches attack; fleeing under moonlight, Rutter is mortally wounded and confesses he murdered Carson for the money and had tried to bushwhack the Ranger. Ware’s Kid secures the confession, resolves to clear Spreen officially, and shields the daughter from public disgrace, choosing compassion over spectacle. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aMurder -- Investigation -- Fiction
653 _aTexas -- Fiction
653 _aTexas Rangers -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the May 1927 issue of Frontier Stories magazine.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76804
999 _c117529
_d117529