01710cam a2200277 4500 413258356 TxAuBib 20200204120000.0 111129s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011045588 9781629143736 1629143731 (OCoLC)765483211 TxAuBib Brand, Max. Son of an outlaw : a western story / by Max Brand. 1st ed. Waterville, Me. : Five Star, 2012. 294 p. ; 23 cm. Elizabeth Cornish knew that the outlaw left behind an infant son. She told her brother Vance to find that infant and bring him to her. Calling herself his aunt and Vance his uncle Elizabeth Cornish raised the boy she called Terry Colby. Vance was skeptical from the beginning insisting that blood not nurture determines character and that an outlaws son would inevitably become an outlaw. Elizabeth has invested her faith in the belief that the life and world in which Terry grew up would form his character and make him all she wanted him to be. She had built up her ranch into a prosperous enterprise and she informs her brother that it is her intention to make Terry the sole heir to Cornish Ranch on his twenty-first birthday. Vance decides to somehow make Terry aware of his outlaw heritage and invites a famous lawman as a guest at his birthday partythe man whose career was launched when he shot and killed Black Jack Hollis. 20200204. Robbers and outlaws Fiction. Ranchers Fiction. Western Stories. TXFLO