The Runaways
by Max Brand

Young Sammy Moore wants nothing more than to get out from under the thumb of his overbearing spinster Aunt Claudia. When a tramp named Lefty wanders through town, Sammy is immediately taken in by his skill with a fiddle, his crafty charm and his trained bull terrier, Smiler. And when Lefty asks Sammy to join him on the road, the boy jumps at the chance. The two begin to con their way around the West -- footloose and fancy-free. But Lefty isn't as free as he'd like to be. An incredibly dangerous hunchback named Jake has been chasing him across the country, looking to settle an old score. And when Jaked catches up with them, there will be hell to pay, both for Lefty and for anyone traveling with him. . .

The Runaways is one of Max Brand's most magical stories, filled with ever-building suspense and drama.

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Copyright © 2003 by Jane Faust Easton and Adriana Faust Bianchi.

ISBN 0-8439-5652-5

Paperback edition published by Leisure Books.

An earlier version of "The Runaways" first appeared as a six-part serial under the George Owen Baxter byline in Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine (10/24/25 - 11/28/25).
Copyright © 1925 by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
Copyright © renewed 1953 by Dorothy Faust
Acknowledgment is made to Condé Nast Publications, Inc., for their co-operation.
Published in 2005 by special arrangement with Golden West Literary Agency.

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