The Gauntlet — Max Brand

The friendship of Red Harrigan and Black MacTee is legendary in the Old West -- until they both fall in love with Kate Malone in "The Blackness of MacTee." In "The Gauntlet, " wastrel Joseph Stillwater Larrimee has struck it rich and is on his way to exchange his gold for currency when he comes upon a small woman's gauntlet. Arriving in town, he learns that a woman who could only be his lady of the gauntlet has passed through town surrounded by a gang of tough-looking men.