This book contains three novellas. The first entitled the "The Nighthawk Trail" is rather silly. The hero Speedy, apparently a protagonist that Brand used more than once accomplishes some feats that are not realistic. An example is he walks behind some bushes and reappears in new attire. Speedy takes on the task of retrieving a horse stolen by a Mexican bandit. By disguising himself as a Mexican peon, he infiltrates the bandit's complex and tricks the bandit chief into allowing him access to the horse which he steals. The whole episode lacks credibility and makes the story unsatisfying.

The second story,"The Vamp's Bandit", is more credible. In it rancher Bard Chambers asks a local attractive woman to help him save Bob Bell, a young man who has taken up a life of robbery but he feels is well worth saving. The plan is to trick Bob into being a guardian for the woman and thus make him a leave the life of crime. Only Mabel proves too successful when Bob takes after the husband who has left her.
I found the Mabel's dialogue difficult to accept considering the tough character we meet initially. Not a very satisfying read.

The third story is Rifle Pass which first appeared in Argosy Magazine in 1935. Although not a great piece of western fiction, it is much better than the other efforts in this collection. Sheriff Weller is disappointed in his lazy, no good son. To shake him up, he gives him a gun and forces him to go out to capture an outlaw named Harry Sandford which he does. After meeting Harry's sister, he lets Harry go and now Dick Weller is on the run. While a more conventional western plot, it is still weaken by the almost super hero abilities of Dick to escape traps and appear almost at will wherever he is needed in the plot. This is another disappointing Brand effort.