The Vengeance of Jefferson Gawne (Illustrated)

by Charles Alden Seltzer

Overview

The Vengeance of Jefferson Gawne: Jeff Gawne is not a happy cowboy. Although he saved and is caring for an orphaned girl on a ranch he started so she would have a home, he is without female companionship. In fact, all of the men he knows work for him, so while he is friendly toward them, the boss cannot be friends with his employees. Enter Katherine Harkless, a recent college graduate and daughter to the "Colonel," who, due to one financial crisis after another, finds himself working for or loosely in partnership with about the most evil man to ever have walked the earth, Hame Bozzam. Worse, Bozzam is Gawne's sworn enemy and wants Katherine for his own, despite a budding relationship between Gawne and Katherine. More twists and turns than a cowpath! Enough fights with fists and guns, romance, and humanity to satisfy even the most jaded lover of westerns.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781877794940
Publisher:	Wise Owl Books
Publication date:	04/30/2021
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.65(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.