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총잡이의 응징 줄거리

저자 맥스 브랜드

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A tramp jumps from a moving freight and walks into a ranch house where a smiling invalid needs a fighter.

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길이: 73,400단어
도서관 난이도: 보통 longer sentences, everyday words
최초 출간: 1923by 맥스 브랜드

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총잡이의 응징 in short

Gunman's Reckoning follows a small, restless wanderer named Donnegan. He jumps from a freight train, finds a decaying ranch and meets a colonel who offers him work that consists of fighting. His job is to take the colonel's daughter Lou to The Corner and win her fiance back from a dance-hall beauty.

What 총잡이의 응징 is about

Picture a freight train rattling through Jericho Pass at night. Near its middle, a tramp called Lefty Joe boasts to a brakeman about the gang he once led. Two cars back, a small red-haired man sleeps, and Lefty has a knife and a plan.

Gunman's Reckoning is a western by Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust. It follows Donnegan, a wanderer who swears he hates work, into a gold camp called The Corner. You get a fast story of bluffs, duels and quiet love, built on one question: what will a man do for a woman who does not love him?

이런 분께 적합해요. Readers who love a quick western with clever bluffs, a boomtown full of schemers and a hero who fights for a girl who loves someone else will find plenty here.

The story in 10 parts

Key idea 1 · free to read
A boastful tramp tells of his ruined gang
The story opens on a freight train climbing through Jericho Pass at night. Two men sit near the middle, talking over the noise. One is a brakeman hungry for gossip. The other is Lefty Joe, a tramp who has paid the brakeman fifty cents and has a big past.
Lefty claims he once led a gang of road thieves, with Kennebec Lou, the Clipper and Suds under him. He tells it with the pride of a defeated general. Then he explains how it broke up, with one bitter word flung into the wind: Donnegan.
Suds cheated an old man at cards, and the old man was a friend of Donnegan. Kennebec Lou tried to stop Donnegan with a knife, and Donnegan beat him in five minutes and walked off whistling. Donnegan is a tornado that hits every ten miles and bends no grass in between. Lefty's fear paints the first portrait and makes you eager to see the real face.
A hero introduced by the terror of his enemies is already half won.
2
Lefty's murder plan fails in the dark boxcar
The brakeman guesses that Lefty has followed Donnegan for two thousand miles to kill him in his sleep.
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A ruined ranch hides a girl and a colonel
Donnegan lands in a sand drift in cattle country.
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The colonel offers a fighter's job for nothing
The colonel refuses Donnegan a bed, then says he means to keep him anyway.
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Donnegan scouts The Corner and hears Lou's reunion
Donnegan and Lou cover fifty miles in one day on rough cow paths.
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Donnegan takes a gambler's clothes and a servant
Donnegan's plan is bold.
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Mint, a clock and a bullet make a legend
Donnegan needs a spectacle.
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Everyone in this story is playing a part
Nearly every person in the book wears a mask.
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Love means giving the prize to someone else
The heart of the book is what a man does for a love that is not returned.
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Brand tells it in scenes, voices and echoes
The book is built in short chapters, each pushing the reader toward the next scene.
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Characters, plot and themes

Main characters

Donnegan A small, red-haired wanderer who lives by his wits, hates work and hunts a man with a birthmark, yet falls hard for a girl on a ranch.
Lou Macon The colonel's golden-haired daughter, gentle and brave, who trusts her father and loves the man she is engaged to marry.
Colonel Macon A huge, silky-voiced invalid who plots from his padded room and wants the gold of The Corner at any price.
Jack Landis The colonel's ward, a tall, handsome young mine owner who is vain and brave and has fallen for Nelly Lebrun.
Nelly Lebrun A dark-eyed gambler's daughter who rules the camp's romance and is drawn to dangerous men.
Lord Nick A towering red-haired gang leader who beats the law with alibis and wants to keep his hold on the mines.
George Washington Green A giant servant who first tries to kill Donnegan, then becomes his loyal follower.
Lefty Joe A bitter tramp who once led a road gang and sets out to murder Donnegan on a freight train.

How it ends (spoiler)

Lord Nick and Donnegan turn out to be brothers, Henry and Garry Reardon, parted since boyhood. They quarrel over Landis and Lou, and Nick drives Donnegan from his side. In a final street fight, George leaps in front of his master and dies. Nick shoots Donnegan, not knowing his gun is empty. Lou saves him, Nick carries him to safety, and Donnegan wakes alive.

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총잡이의 응징에 관한 질문

What is Gunman's Reckoning about?

A small, red-haired wanderer named Donnegan takes a job from a scheming colonel to escort his daughter to a gold camp called The Corner. There he bluffs, fights and schemes to win a young man back for a girl he himself loves.

Who is Lord Nick in Gunman's Reckoning?

Lord Nick is the red-haired leader of a gang of gunmen around The Corner. He stays within the law through alibis and clever court speeches, and his name is whispered in the saloons because everyone fears him.

Who is Donnegan and why does he follow a red-haired man?

Donnegan is a tramp, gambler and fast gunman who hates work and loves a good show. At the start he has spent two years hunting a red-haired man with a birthmark on his left shoulder, for reasons he calls a matter of blood.

Is Gunman's Reckoning a true story?

No, it is a work of fiction by Max Brand, the pen name of Frederick Faust, who died in 1944. The Corner and its people are invented, though they follow the pattern of real gold-rush boomtowns of the American West.

Is Gunman's Reckoning easy to read?

Its chapters are short, its plot moves quickly and its dialogue is lively and clear. Each chapter ends on a small hook, so the story pulls a reader along from the freight train to the final street.

이 판본 인용하기

Brand, Max. Gunman's Reckoning. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/gunmans-reckoning.

Brand, M. (2026). Gunman's reckoning. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/gunmans-reckoning (Original work published 1923)

Brand, Max. Gunman's Reckoning. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/gunmans-reckoning.

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  author = {Brand, Max},
  title = {Gunman's Reckoning},
  publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/gunmans-reckoning},
  note = {First published 1923}
}