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100 1 _aHaycox, Ernest,
_d1899-1950
245 1 0 _aBully McGrane
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
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490 1 _aProduced from the November 25, 1930 issue of Short Stories magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-30
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aBully McGrane by Ernest Haycox is a Western short story written in the early 20th century. Set in the hard-edged mining town of Pistol Gap, it turns on law, violence, and the possibility of redemption, centering on a reformed drifter’s bid to escape with a dance hall singer while a ruthless marshal and vengeful partners close in. In Pistol Gap, Bully McGrane rules by fear, watching as Tud Drury returns from a mine with his share of gold and a plan to leave town clean and marry Anna, a singer at the Pride of the Hills. Drury’s three crooked partners arrive to settle scores, warning McGrane off; the marshal coldly decides to let them do the killing and then arrest them. As night falls, Drury arranges horses through Sen Yat in Chinatown, retrieves Anna, and heads out a back way toward the ridge—straight into an ambush. Moved despite himself, McGrane opens the escape route and charges into the dark when shooting starts; Anna and Drury mount and flee while one gunman is killed and the other two are knocked senseless by the blacksmith, Billy Monteith. The couple rides free, and McGrane, still gruff and cynical, reveals a grudging soft spot by letting their luck hold. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cGarden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1930
653 _aShort stories
653 _aWestern stories
653 _aMiners -- Fiction
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
653 _aMarshals -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the November 25, 1930 issue of Short Stories magazine.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77816
999 _c118536
_d118536