Eine Sirene ist in der griechischen Mythologie ein meist weibliches Fabelwesen (Mischwesen aus ursprünglich Mensch und Vogel, später auch Mensch und Fisch), das durch seinen betörenden Gesang die vorbeifahrenden Schiffer anlockt, um sie zu töten. Wer hätte das gedacht, dass sich eine Sirene in Jones Angel verfängt, ihn aber nicht tötet, sondern ihn völlig verwirrt. Die Geschichte wurde erstmals veröffentlicht in All-American Fiction, 1938, unter dem Titel "Whistle Thrice" (Dreimal pfeifen).

Dreimal Pfeifen - ... und die Sirene kommt

Max Brand (1892-1944), war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und gilt als einer der wichtigsten und bekanntesten Western-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Brand, der mit bürgerlichem Namen Frederick Schiller Faust hieß, schuf legendäre Western-Charaktere wie Dr. James Kildare und Destry. Zu seinen größten Erfolgen zählt der Roman "Destry Rides Again", der 1939 mit Marlene Dietrich und James Stewart in den Hauptrollen verfilmt wurde (deutscher Titel: "Der große Bluff").

Zu Max Brands Klassikern gehört auch der hier vorliegende Roman "Die Unbezähmbaren" (1918, englischer Titel: "The Untamed"), der zu den besten Western aller Zeiten zählt.

Der mysteriöse Dan Barry, genannt "Whistling Dan" reitet einen schwarzen Hengst namens "Satan", hat einen gefährlichen Wolfshund namens "Black Bart" und ist auch sonst ein wilder Draufgänger. Der junge Dan Barry ist mit allen Wassern gewaschen, doch dann tauchen plötzlich der brutale Jim Silent und dessen mörderische Bande auf. Jim Silent und seine Zugräuber-Bande greifen Dan Barry an und entführen seine geliebte Kate. Dan Barry macht sich auf die Suche nach Kate und schwört auf ewige Rache! Eine Geschichte voller Action und Spannung beginnt ...

Das vorliegende Buch wurde sorgfältig editiert und enthält Max Brands Roman "Die Unbezähmbaren" im ungekürzten Original-Wortlaut der deutschen Übersetzung.

Die Unbezähmbaren - Western

HOURS later, and every hour like the weighty length of a day, Kildare was saying: "Next, please!" when Mary Lamont answered: "That's the end of the line for today."

He shook his head at her impatiently. "There are twenty more people out there!" he declared.

"I've sent them away, " she said.

"You sent them away?" exclaimed Kildare.

"I had orders from Doctor Gillespie."

"But a Gillespie day never stops-it's from noon to noon, " protested Kildare.

"He won't let you keep those hours, " said the girl. "He gave me express orders that the line is not to keep pressing in at you day and night."

Kildare dropped into a chair, unbuttoned his white jacket at the throat, and wiped away perspiration from around his eyes. Hospitals are always too hot. He merely said: "I suppose he's right. He's always right. I'd be a fool to try to imitate him. He goes in seven-league boots, and I'm only a measuring worm... I suppose he wants me in the laboratory."

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

At the age of six Randall Byrne could name and bound every state in the Union and give the date of its admission; at nine he was conversant with Homeric Greek and Caesar; at twelve he read Aristophanes with perfect understanding of the allusions of the day and divided his leisure between Ovid and Horace; at fifteen, wearied by the simplicity of Old English and Thirteenth Century Italian, he dipped into the history of Philosophy and passed from that, naturally, into calculus and the higher mathematics; at eighteen he took an A. B. from Harvard and while idling away a pleasant summer with Hebrew and Sanskrit, he delved lightly into biology and its kindred sciences, having reached the conclusion that Truth is greater than Goodness or Beauty, because it comprises both, and the whole is greater than any of its parts; at twenty-one he pocketed his Ph. D. and was touched with the fever of his first practical enthusiasm-surgery.

The Night Horseman

The Great West, prior to the century's turn, abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark, of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind, of glorious women whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter, McGurk.

These two men of the wilderness, so unalike, of widely-differing backgrounds, had in common a single trait: each was unbeatable. Fate brought them clashing together, thunder to thunder, lightning to lightning. They were destined to meet at the crossroads of a long, long trail-a trail which began in the northern wastes of Canada and led, finally, to a deadly confrontation in the mountains of the Far West.

Riders of the Silences

He came into the town as a solid, swiftly moving dust cloud. The wind from behind had kept the dust moving forward at a pace just equal to the gallop of his horse. Not until he had brought his mount to a halt in front of the hotel and swung down to the ground did either he or his horse become distinctly visible. Then it was seen that the animal was in the last stages of exhaustion, with dull eyes and hanging head and forelegs braced widely apart, while the sweat dripped steadily from his flanks into the white dust on the street. Plainly he had been pushed to the last limit of his strength.

The rider was almost as far spent as his mount, for he went up the steps of the hotel with his shoulders sagging with weariness, a wide-shouldered, gaunt-ribbed man. Thick layers of dust had turned his red kerchief and his blue shirt to a common gray. Dust, too, made a mask of his face, and through that mask the eyes peered out, surrounded by pink skin. Even at its best the long, solemn face could never have been called handsome. But, on this particular day, he seemed a haunted man, or one fleeing from an inescapable danger.

Ronicky Doone

Max Brand (1892-1944), war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und gilt als einer der wichtigsten und bekanntesten Western-Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Brand, der mit bürgerlichem Namen Frederick Schiller Faust hieß, schuf legendäre Western-Charaktere wie Dr. James Kildare und Destry. Zu seinen größten Erfolgen zählt der Roman "Destry Rides Again", der 1939 mit Marlene Dietrich und James Stewart in den Hauptrollen verfilmt wurde (deutscher Titel: "Der große Bluff").

Zu Max Brands Klassikern gehört auch der hier vorliegende Roman "Pepillo" (1927, englischer Titel: "The Blue Jay"). Der ebenso spannende wie actionreiche Western handelt von einer mörderischen Bande von Viehdieben, die ausgerechnet einen ehemaligen Sheriff ausraubt. Der Sheriff schwört auf Rache und setzt Kitchin auf die Bande an - Kitchin ist der taffste und abgebrühteste Kerl weit und breit. Und der Sheriff und Kitchin begegnen sich nicht zum ersten Mal: Jahre zuvor hat der Sheriff Kitchin gejagt und hinter Gittern gebracht. Eine spannende Rache-Geschichte nimmt ihren Lauf ...

Das vorliegende Buch wurde sorgfältig editiert und enthält Max Brands Roman "Pepillo" im ungekürzten Original-Wortlaut der deutschen Übersetzung.

Pepillo - Western

Even to a high-flying bird this was a country to be passed over quickly. It was burned and brown, littered with fragments of rock, whether vast or small, as if the refuse were tossed here after the making of the world. A passing shower drenched the bald knobs of a range of granite hills and the slant morning sun set the wet rocks aflame with light. In a short time the hills lost their halo and resumed their brown. The moisture evaporated. The sun rose higher and looked sternly across the desert as if he searched for any remaining life which still struggled for existence under his burning course.

And he found life. Hardy cattle moved singly or in small groups and browsed on the withered bunch grass. Summer scorched them, winter humped their backs with cold and arched up their bellies with famine, but they were a breed schooled through generations for this fight against nature. In this junk-shop of the world, rattlesnakes were rulers of the soil. Overhead the buzzards, ominous black specks pendant against the white-hot sky, ruled the air.

It seemed impossible that human beings could live in this rock- wilderness. If so, they must be to other men what the lean, hardy cattle of the hills are to the corn-fed stabled beeves of the States.

Dreimal Pfeifen - ... und die Sirene kommt

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