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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aGrinstead, J. E.
_q(Jesse Edward),
_d1866-1948
245 1 4 _aThe saga of Silver Bend
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
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 16, 23, 30 1929.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-16
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net
520 _a"The saga of Silver Bend" by J. E. Grinstead is a Western novel written in the early 20th century. It follows Old Railroad Ross, his son Randy, and loyal hands like Dolly as a Texas range war flares in the bottle-shaped valley of Silver Bend, pitting them against the ruthless Holderness brothers and entangling them with the proud Tarleton family through Randy’s love for Zella. Expect ambushes, hard choices, and a young man’s forging under grief and gunfire. The opening of the story shows trouble breaking at the Railroad Ranch round-up: Asa Ross is gunned down, fugitives scatter, and soon Pate Ross and the old hand Leck are bushwhacked at the narrows. Sankey and Dolly pull Randy from a saloon before he drinks himself senseless, and Dolly talks him into facing death; helping lift his brothers’ bodies home cures Randy’s dread and steels him. At the funerals, Judge Tarleton brands Ben’s death an assassination and later is himself shot from across the river, deepening a rift that Bell Holderness exploits. Skirmishes follow in the timber and at the river ford, with the Railroad men dropping several attackers; in town, two more hands are killed while Bell and Lav Tarleton spread blame. Zella sends Randy a secret note believing he shot her father and urging him to flee; he refuses, ends the romance, and vows to stand and fight. Seeking proof, Randy and Dolly slip by boat to the cottonwood thicket and overhear Steve Holderness and Bill Hayden admit Steve shot Asa, Hayden bushwhacked Pate, and Bell shot Ben to frame the Railroad, seize Silver Bend, and win Zella. The section closes with Randy and Dolly moving in to take Hayden in the dark. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aAdventure stories
653 _aCowboys -- Fiction
653 _aTexas -- Fiction
653 _aRanches -- Fiction
700 1 _aMcKell, James C.,
_d1885-1956
830 0 _aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 16, 23, 30 1929.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77480
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