The Baron of Coyote River

This was a really fun western! Lance and Tyler mess up a rustler, criminal gang Baron who’s taking over the Arizona territory. What’s Lance going to do while he’s wanted for murder? A few subplots here and there and you have a decent western comparable to Louie Lamour. This book also has a second sto......more

I breezed through this one during lunch break and felt the need to jot down a few words about it. The book contains two very different stories that highlight Hubbard's skills as a writer. In the first story, Baron of Coyote River, Hubbard spins a straight forward, action-oriented Western featuring a......more

I'm not a big Western fan, but this was a fun, fast read. The book contains two stories, the title story from All Western Magazine's September, 1936, issue, and "Reign of the Gila Monster" from Western Aces Magazine's September, 1937, issue. The "The Baron of Coyote River" is a rather dry and straig......more

L. Ron Hubbard didn't spend all of his time inventing loony, but lucrative, religions. He also wrote Modern American Fiction*. Here's an example: it may be awful, but it's more fun than Dianetics. Cheaper, too. *It was modern. It was American. God knows, it was fictional. What more do you want?......more

This is a fun pair of stories. The title story is the more serious of the two, although both have quite a bit of grim humor. The "Baron" of the story is a powerful outlaw, one with a large enough band to stand off a weak cavalry garrison's feeble efforts. The tale is about his attempts to bleed a cou......more