The Bradys Out West Omnibus

Ten novella-sized nickel weeklies from the “Secret Service” series featuring “Old and Young King Brady, Detectives” in the Wild West, gathered here in one collection—the perfect vacation-week’s worth of light reading.  The two New York detectives confront cowboys, Indians, Mexicans, gunfights in saloons, outlaws, etc.  Any reader will naturally enjoy watching two city slickers from the east coast visit the Wild West and out-cowboy the cowboys.

The nickel weeklies included, sequence numbers, and their original publication dates:

The Bradys Out West; or, Winning a Hard Case—No. 28, August 4, 1899

The Bradys In Wyoming; or, Tracking the Mountain Men—No. 132, August 2, 1901

The Bradys and the Lost Ranche; or, The Strange Case in Texas—No. 144, October 25, 1901

The Bradys at Gold Hill; or, The Mystery of the Man from Montana—No. 243, September 18, 1903

The Bradys and Brady the Banker; or, The Secret of the Old Santa Fe Trail—No. 253, November 27, 1903

The Bradys at Fort Yuma; or, The Mix-Up with the “King of Mexico”—No. 272, April 8, 1904

The Bradys’ Desert Trail; or, Lost on the Deadman’s Run—No. 318, February 24, 1905

The Bradys and “Brazos Bill”; or, Hot Work on the Texas Border—No. 346, September 8, 1905

The Bradys and “Kid Joaquin”; or, The Greasers of Robber’s Canyon—No. 429, April 12, 1907

The Bradys and “Mr. Mormon”; or, Secret Work in Salt Lake City—No. 1135, October 22, 1920

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