The Gun-Brand

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Published in 1917, The Gun-Brand is a frontier adventure novel by James B. Hendryx (1880–1963), set in the vast and lawless reaches of northwestern Canada along the Slave River. Chloe Elliston, the determined granddaughter of the legendary Tiger Elliston, travels north to move freight and build her fortune. She is quickly drawn into a bitter feud between the brutal free-trader Brute McNair — known as the Bad Man of the North — and the cunning Pierre Lapierre, whose ambitions threaten the fragile order of the wilderness.

Hendryx was a Minnesota native who had prospected in the Yukon, worked as a cowboy in the American and Canadian West, and served as a newspaper reporter. He became one of the most popular writers of Northern adventure fiction — a genre of rugged frontier stories set in the Canadian North — and published over fifty novels. The Gun-Brand is in the public domain and freely available through Project Gutenberg.

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