Over the years, William Colt MacDonald has published nearly seventy western novels, and over sixty motion pictures have been based on his western fiction. Both of the short novels appearing here in book form for the first time were adapted for the screen. In "The Son of the Wolf," Wolfe Blaine is an ambitious rancher who always wants more. When Gene Colton loses his spread to Wolfe, he kidnaps Wolfe's infant son and disappears with him, determined to make a criminal of him. In the title story, "Powder Smoke" Peters, owner ...
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Over the years, William Colt MacDonald has published nearly seventy western novels, and over sixty motion pictures have been based on his western fiction. Both of the short novels appearing here in book form for the first time were adapted for the screen. In "The Son of the Wolf," Wolfe Blaine is an ambitious rancher who always wants more. When Gene Colton loses his spread to Wolfe, he kidnaps Wolfe's infant son and disappears with him, determined to make a criminal of him. In the title story, "Powder Smoke" Peters, owner of the PSP ranch, is convinced that young Ollie Thorpe did not murder Matt Thorpe and sets out to prove it. William Colt MacDonald's career has been a long string of successes in pulp magazines, hardcover books, films and reprint paperback editions. The Three Mesquiteers, MacDonald's most famous characters, were introduced in 1933. Ten of the motion pictures based on MacDonald's books starred John Wayne.
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