"Beau" Rand

by Charles Alden Seltzer

Overview

"Beau" Rand might be one of the worst gunslinging murderers and horse thieves of all time. Conversely, he might be a hero who only draws his gun in defense of self and others, and just a cowboy who bought a horse completely legally. Complicating the truth is a late-to-the story young boy who Beau may have had out of wedlock, or maybe he's just taking care of the lad for a friend, and a girl who is attracted to and by Beau. This book has more twists and turns than Lombard Street in San Francisco.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788667512616
Publisher:	Wise Owl Books
Publication date:	04/17/2021
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Charles Alden Seltzer (15 August 1875–February 1942) was an American writer. He was a prolific author of western novels, had writing credits for more than a dozen film titles, and authored numerous stories published in magazines, most prominently in Argosy.

Seltzer was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, the son of Lucien B. Seltzer and Oceania Hart of Columbus, Ohio. Before becoming a successful writer, he was variously a newsboy, telegraph messenger, painter, carpenter and manager of the circulation of a newspaper, building inspector, editor of a small newspaper, and an appraiser.

He married Ella Seltzer, and they had three sons and two daughters. His son Louis, later editor of the Cleveland Press, recalled that the family was quite poor when his father was struggling to break into the writing profession (he wrote two hundred stories before receiving an acceptance). During this time, Seltzer's wife brought him wrapping paper from the butcher to write on. In addition to Argosy, Seltzer's work also appeared in Adventure, Short Stories, Blue Book, The Outing Magazine, Western Story Magazine and the US edition of Pearson's Magazine. Seltzer wrote his westerns from the experience of five years living in New Mexico. Towards the end of his life, he was also elected mayor of his home-town, North Olmsted, Ohio.