This work is written by Max Brand. Here are three classic short novels: "The gold King Turns His Back", "The Three Crosses", and "The Abandoned Outlaw". "The Gold King Turns His Back" tells of young Miriam Standard who is more than capable of running her father's ranch, but finds she has much to learn about the westerner's meaning of honor. In "The three Crosses", an ominous prediction leads a cowpuncher to a showdown with a notorious gunfighter. "The Abandoned Outlaw" finds a young woman caught in the middle of a lifelong rivalry between two men, one of whom is an outlaw.