The Seventh Man

The Seventh Man, by Max Brand, is an amazing action adventure western with the bad guys as the sympathetic main characters. It was published in 1921. "Vic Gregg was on the danger side of thirty and he lived alone in the mountains all that winter. He wanted to marry Betty Neal, but marriage means money, therefore Vic contracted fifteen hundred dollars' worth of mining for the Duncans, and instead of taking a partner he went after that stake single handed ..."