Ridgewell Cullum (1867-1943) was the pseudonym of American writer Sidney Graves Burchard, whose life was as adventurous as his novels. An adventurer by nature, he left England at the age of seventeen to search for gold in the Transvaal. He fought in the Boer War, sought his fortune in the Canadian lands of Saguenay, endured severe trials in the Yukon and Klondike, where he almost died of starvation, and then settled in Montana, becoming a cattle rancher. He even took part in the uprising of the Sioux Indian tribes.
After the success of his first novel, The Devil's Barrel (1903), Cullum devoted himself to literature and over forty years published more than thirty books, most of which became classics of the Western.
This volume includes two exciting works. The Night Riders and The Lawbreakers transport readers to the vast expanses of the 19th-century Canadian prairies, where cowboys, outlaws, and law enforcement clash in brutal combat. Here, the law is made not by the court but by the revolver, and honor is measured not by words but by actions. Cullem masterfully captures the spirit of the frontier, creating tense, dangerous stories about survival, freedom, and the price of justice.
