Kinney steals the money from Jack’s bedroll, to see what will happen when Jack has to face Charlie Lake. Jack owes eighty dollars to Charlie Lake, a mean gunfighter, and lake is coming to collect it the next day. He discusses him with a visiting doctor, who disagrees, seeing in Happy Jack Aberdeen a young man with great but hidden potential. Jack Aberdeen is a carefree and light-hearted young man, who Kinney thinks hasn’t got what it takes to face the challenges of life. Happy Jack starts off on the ranch near Dabney Wells that is owned by the local lawman, Marshal Kinney. Thirties, and a very successful television series in the 1960s. Kildare series of stories inspired a series of fifteen films in the Was an immensely prolific writer, and not just of Westerns. Cover of the magazine that included the first instalment of Happy Jack. The author was born Frederick Faust, in 1892 other names he wrote under include: George Challis, Peter Dawson, Martin Dexter, Evin Evan, Evan Evans, John Frederick, David Manning, Peter Henry Morland, Hugh Owen, John Schoolcraft & Nicholas Silver. Book Review by George S: Happy Jack was published in book form in 1936, but it had first appeared in 1930, as a serial in Western Story Magazine, under one of Max Brand’s many pseudonyms, George Owen Baxter.
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