Max Brand 
Silvertip’s Search 

In Silvertip’s Search, it is up to Arizona Jim Silver to rescue young Rap Brender from the evil mastermind Barry Christian before he inducts the young boy into his gang and Silvertip must take up arms against him, the hard way. Excerpt: ‘Judge Brender had a wooden leg. That was why he refused to let his wife get up and answer the knock at the front door of the ranch house; he always wanted to show that despite a wooden leg he was about as active and agile as ever. So he waved his wife back to her newspaper—it was the idle hour of a mid-morning on Sunday—and he swung himself on his crutches and his sound leg into the hallway.’