Larramees Ranch is another great and entertaining Max Brand novel! This is quite a change of pace for Max Brand.
His hero Tom Holden is a bookish young man with a bad leg, no money, and no experience with firearms. When he sets out to make his fortune, he has no real prospects but through a series of bluffs he outwits a killer, faces down a town bully, makes a considerable bundle of money for himself.
Then he announces he will marry Alexa Larrame, the beautiful blue-eyed daughter of the wealthiest rancher around even though hed never even met her! He is being accused of committing several robberies and murders in a town where the strong make the laws and enforce them with bullets!
