Branded Outlaw: Golden Age Stories

Good Rollicking old fashioned western fun!!!

To date the other L. Ron Hubbard book I've ever read was Battlefield Earth which I loved (I even loved the movie, sue me!) so reading an old pulp western was definitely a big change up for me. This book wasn't bad or good. It was short and sweet and had the standard ingredients for a western. Warning spoilers ahead. I've literally outlined the entire book. Man's childhood home and father are killed. He comes back seeking vengeance. No one believes him so he starts shooting up people. Man becomes an outlaw. He is saved by a young girl who helps clean his wounds and heal him. He falls in love. Turns out her father is the bad guy. He runs away. Gets captured. Escapes. Discovers the truth. Is vindicated. Gets the girl. A quick unmemorable read that wasn't poorly written.

Fun to listen to - if you like Olde' Style Radio Dramas, this is a fun one to add to your collection. Nothing out of the ordinary, but easy to imagine John Wayne saving the day.

The quality of the recording and the readers is very good. Typical western in that someone dies, someone seeks revenge, and a woman nurses an injured man back to health.

Western's are fun stories to read even though they aren't as popular nowadays. This story is one of the short novella's that L Ron Hubbard put out back then. A fun story of mistaken circumstance that easily escalates into something worse. If only the characters could have a bit more of a back story to create more interest in them.

Pulp fiction western story action packed with full cast and sound like an old radio program. Great entertaining way to go on an adventure while driving around town in your car!

Another enjoyable story by L. Ron Hubbard. This audiobook was well done with a multi person cast and sound effects, more like a radio drama than a typical audiobook. The story is an action-packed old-west adventure involving a son's quest to revenge the murder of his father.

I've listened to a number of these "Golden Age" L. Ron Hubbard stories and this is one of the better ones. They come across like Old Time Radio which I enjoy. The recording has a large cast and background music so it is pleasant to listen to.Branded Outlaw is set in the old West and is the story of Lee Weston, a sometimes gunfighter who comes back to Pecos New Mexico to find that his father has been murdered. In his quest to avenge his father, he becomes known as a dangerous gunslinger. He must avenge his father, live down his reputation and gain the respect of the girl his loves for his happy ending. I received this from librarything's EarlyReviewer giveaway program and I've given it an honest review.

I have both the book and the audio book and I enjoy the audio book more.

I received the Galaxy Press audio dramatization of Branded Outlaw (Stories from the Golden Age) by L. Ron Hubbard through Librarything.com.I have won several of these L. Ron Hubbard dramatizations through librarything.com and they are great. Excellent production values, sound effects and music. Branded Outlaw is set in the old west where disputes are settled with six guns. The story is pure pulp and very fun. The presentation has two narrative flaws that I heard, though. Early on the Narrator says that Lee Weston rises from a "crouch" but he says it so quickly it sounds like "couch" which is a bit funny. Later, and more problematic is that when he refers to the hay loft, the Narrator says "mow" like "mow the grass," when the correct pronunciation is "maow." Much as I like Mr. O'Donnell's narrations of these audiobooks, he clearly did not grow up in the country.I like Lee Weston's voice – very much a young man from the Wild West. And as usual with these Galaxy Press audios, the woman's voice is grating. No cast list came with this disk so I can't tell you who these or the other actors are. (Mr. O'Donnell's name is on the Amazon page.) The double CDs arrived in a crushed crystal box, not the lovely red paper folders I have received before, with none of the usual information inserts included.We can imagine that Galaxy Press, publishers of these dramatizations, is a Scientologist outfit, but there is nothing that points directly to a link.

Galaxy Audio provides a superb rendition of L. Ron Hubbard's Branded Outlaw. The narrator could be an old cowpoke resting by a blazing campfire along a nighttime trail spinning the legend of Suicide Weston. Sound effects more fully draw the listener into the story.This great example of pulp fiction written in 1938 is a western loaded with suspenseful twists and turns plus a whimsical touch of romance. Hubbard's talent for writing is demonstrated in the following excerpt from the story."It was dark when he rose and tightened the buckskin cinch. Warily he led his mount down the slopes through the pinnacles of rocks which stood like grotesque heathen idols against the stars, each one passing silent judgement upon him. He was either going to salvation or going to the last battle of his life." (Chapter 7)This compact disc recording along with a paperback version of the book would be a useful tool for teachers attempting to motivate reluctant readers. I wish that Hubbard's books would become available in a hardbound format that would survive the repeated use in a school library. His books should appeal to young adult as well as adult audiences.

This was my first encounter with L. Ron Hubbard and I really liked it. Though I normally prefer to read books than listen to them, it was a fun book to listen to and it held my attention. So much so that I couldn't wait to begin my commute to work and home from work each day so I could find out the next thing in the book! Really fun story with kind of a surprising ending. Likeable characters and great quality voices to narrate each character. Would highly recommend this audio book!

When it comes the Golden Age of radio its the best...having a long drive in the morning and the afternoon these are the best to listen too.I think aback to the days before T.V. when all you had is the radio and I imagine a uncomplicated life. He can write a good fiction and left religion alone.

I received a set of L. Ron Hubbard audiobooks to review. This was one of them. The audiobook portion was very well-done and was more like a radio drama of old and less like a traditional audiobook. I did not care for the actual book though.

The story of "Suicide" Lee Weston, come back to Pecos to aid his father from a hostile takeover of his ranch, Branded Outlaw is a classic western from the golden age. While parts of it are unbelievable--such as the girl falling in love with an outlaw on site--the action kept me so engage that I missed my freeway exit on the way to work while listening to the audio version of this novella.

Branded Outlaw - Stories from the Golden Age, Author: L. Ron HubbardWhen Lee Weston's father writes him that an old enemy, Harvey Dodge, is back in town, Lee rides out in a hurry from Wyoming to Pecos, New Mexico only to find his father murdered and the family ranch burned to the ground. Certain that Dodge is to blame, Lee sets off to settle the score but gets into a fiery Colt showdown in the town of Pecos. Severely wounded, he flees into the mountains just before passing out. As fate would have it, Dodge's beautiful, yet headstrong, daughter, Ellen, secretly nurses him back to health. Each man believes the other is guilty of awful crimes. Who really did it??

A good old time western on CD for a good labor day car ride. The cast was great as usually with these CD books. I'm always wishing they were longer.

I put this in for a car trip with my dad and myself. He's not a fan of audio books since they are "mono toned stories" and thinks it's silly for someone to read you a story when you aren't in elementary school anymore. My dad loves western novels so I snuck this in the CD player and he enjoyed it. It reminded him of the old time radio shows since it had other elements to the story than just someone reading it. It was a good enjoyable story.

Are you a fan of Gunsmoke, Big Valley, Rawhide, etc.? If so, you will enjoy L. Ron Hubbard's books and audio books. What? You have never heard of these? Well, you are in for a clean, fun treat!In 'Branded Outlaw', a young man returns home after being away for six years. He received an urgent letter requesting him to come home. His mother had died when he was but twelve years old and his dad is all he had left of family. When he arrived home, he arrived to find two large smoldering piles of which used to be a barn and a house. His father lay dead.After burying his dad, he determined it had to be the works of a man who had been in many disagreements with his father. He made up his mind he was going to get his own "justice". He went off "half-cocked" to find that man. This is just the beginning of the adventures and life threatening events which followed. It is also the introduction to a young woman who aided him when it looked as though all was lost.This is a short story. I loved the CDs. It was just a long enough story to get one through the couple of hours of traffic one so often has to endure. The narratives were done very well and realistically. I highly recommend this for any age. You can purchase it in paperback or CDs.I won this through a the Library Thing giveaway. The author has requested an honest book review, of which I have given.

Another great performance in audio drama from Galaxy Press. was first published in the October 1938 issue of "Five-Novels" and it feels every bit a product of its time. I appreciate that this is an unabridged recording too. It is every bit as good of a Western as most pulps of its time. Sadly, it seems like Galaxy Audio had changed their audiobook covers to a plain plastic CD case that can't be read from the spine. A HUGE downgrade from their neat-o cardboard packaging that almost felt like a book.

I love a good western and l ron hubbard . Does not disappoint storyline and charactors are great. I would highly recommend this to any western fan

Lee returns to his hometown after receiving a letter from his father, asking for help. He’s having problems with a neighbor. By the time Lee returns, his father’s dead. While trying to find the neighbor he believes is responsible, Lee ends up making enemies of pretty much the entire town…except for one girl, who so happens to be the daughter of the man who killed his father. I enjoyed reading this–first, it’s short, so it can easily be read in one sitting. Secondly (and what’s most important), it’s just fun. These books are total pulp fiction–high on excitement and intrigue. The best part (at least for me) is the fact that reading Lee’s dialogue, it soon became impossible to not hear Humphrey Bogart reading it in my head. (I blame the fact that I saw part of The Big Sleep recently.) I’ve pretty much only seen him in noirs and Casablanca, but that’s the kind of dialogue it is–short and punchy.