Sometimes you have to find your own path… In Pieguard, Zeb Thurnwell is the only trader in town willing to take the townsfolk’s wares up to the city of St Louis. While folk don’t say anything, everyone knows that Zeb takes much of their hard-earned profits for himself to spend on whiskey. And with Zeb’s uncle being the sheriff and tax collector for the county, it looks like nothing’s going to change any time soon. Until Dan Bolder shows up. As a young, brash man of eighteen, he’s not going to take Zeb’s pilfering ways lying down. When Zeb tries to silence him permanently, Dan knocks him out cold and takes what he believes Zeb owes him. Realising that the law will soon be on to him, Dan is forced to leave his family’s ranch and his widowed mother behind. Zeb and his uncle the Sheriff are not far behind. But as luck would have it, on the way to St Louis, Dan meets Ben Starpson, a ‘mountain man’ still in his prime. Saving Dan from the noose, Ben devises a way to get them to St Louis. And so begins their fire-forged partnership. Along the way, Ben teaches the greenhorn Dan how to hunt, shoot and live like a mountain man. Yet despite the dangers and the roughness of the frontier, Dan starts to see how Ben sees it – as a place where men can live unabashedly as men. He may have been a humble sod-breaker but out in these untamed lands, Dan might just be able to find himself a new path in life. Set in the heart of the once wild frontier, The Pathfinders shows the indomitable spirits of those that made America, in a tale of adventure and loyalty. 'A thrilling read.' - Robert Foster, acclaimed author of The Lunar Code . Edwin Charles Tubb was a British writer of western novels, science fiction and fantasy. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stores and novellas, Tubb used 58 different pen names over five decades. He passed away in 2010, but his legacy lives on.
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Edwin Charles Tubb (15 October 1919 – 10 September 2010) was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective title: Dumarest of Terra) an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future Much of Tubb's work has been written under pseudonyms including Gregory Kern, Carl Maddox, Alan Guthrie, Eric Storm and George Holt. He has used 58 pen names over five decades of writing although some of these were publishers' house names also used by other writers: Volsted Gridban (along with John Russell Fearn), Gill Hunt (with John Brunner and Dennis Hughes), King Lang (with George Hay and John W Jennison), Roy Sheldon (with H. J. Campbell) and Brian Shaw. Tubb's Charles Grey alias was solely his own and acquired a big following in the early 1950s. An avid reader of pulp science-fiction and fantasy in his youth, Tubb found that he had a particular talent as a writer of stories in that genre when his short story 'No Short Cuts' was published in New Worlds magazine in 1951. He opted for a full-time career as a writer and soon became renowned for the speed and diversity of his output. Tubb contributed to many of the science fiction magazines of the 1950s including Futuristic Science Stories, Science Fantasy, Nebula and Galaxy Science Fiction. He contributed heavily to Authentic Science Fiction editing the magazine for nearly two years, from February 1956 until it folded in October 1957. During this time, he found it so difficult to find good writers to contribute to the magazine, that he often wrote most of the stories himself under a variety of pseudonyms: one issue of Authentic was written entirely by Tubb, including the letters column. His main work in the science fiction genre, the Dumarest series, appeared from 1967 to 1985, with two final volumes in 1997 and 2008. His second major series, the Cap Kennedy series, was written from 1973 to 1983. In recent years Tubb updated many of his 1950s science fiction novels for 21st century readers. Tubb was one of the co-founders of the British Science Fiction Association.
