Take the law into your own hands and you risk losing your grip on everything elseincluding your life Lee Westona young Paul Newman with a Colt revolver at his hipis as goodlooking as he is quick tempered and hes got a lot to be angry aboutHis father murdered his family ranch torched he goes gunning for Harvey Dodgethe man who hes convinced is the killerand its Lee who ends up on the wrong side of the law Shot in a gunfight on the run and running out of time he holes up in a mountain hideout and waits for death to come find himBut he wakes up in the arms of a beautiful woman who has beat death to his door and nursed him back to life Shes the first and only woman he has ever fallen for and her name is Ellen DodgeHarveys daughter Can a great loss lead to a great love Can the search for revenge lead to redemption The answers lie in the wild heart of the Wild Westin Branded OutlawL Ron Hubbard was so prolific and his stories so much in demand he occasionally had to publish under a pseudonym to ensure that his name wouldnt appear twice in a single issue of a magazine Thus did Branded Outlaw originally appear as being written by a writer named Barry Randolph But as is clear from the action and authenticity of the story it was Hubbard behind the curtain pulling the levers This is one of sixteen westerns Hubbard wrote in 1938all influenced by a foray into New Mexico to round out his research His unsurpassed knowledge of the West originated in his years growing upand riding onthe rangePacks a ton of action and some priceless shootout scenes EZReadercom