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In addition to his better-known Tarzan books, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote four westerns and this tale of character overcoming betrayal for love is the best. Bull was foreman of the Bar Y Ranch until Hal Colby got him drunk and lost him his job. Worse, Colby was after Diana Henders, the love of his life, and did little to keep people from suspecting that Bull was the stage robbing Black Coyote. Despite his setbacks, Bull is loyal to Diana and when a slick lawyer tries to cheat her out of the ranch, it is Bull who intervenes to save not only her inheritance but also her life.

The Bandit of Hell's Bend is a Western fiction novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Bandit of Hell's Bend was published by "Argosy All-Story Weekly" in September and October 1924. The book version was first published by A. C. McClurg on 1925-06-04.[1] This is one of four Westerns that Burroughs wrote. He had two working titles for it: "The Black Coyote" and "Diana of the Bar Y." Elias Henders is the prosperous owner of a ranch and a gold mine. Competing for his daughter Diana, ranch hand Colby sabotages recovering alcoholic foreman Bull, and takes his job. The local stage is repeatedly robbed of gold bullion from the owner's mine, and Bull is suspected. The cowardly sheriff does not take action on the robberies. Rich Easterner Wainwright tries to buy the mine and ranch for a low price, but Henders refuses the offer and discusses the property's true value with Diana. She is intrigued by Wainwright's Eastern-educated son Jefferson, who proposes marriage. However, when they are attacked by Indians during the roundup, he runs rather than defend her. Henders is mortally wounded in the battle.