The Sheriff of Elk Ridge

  • Title: The Sheriff of Elk Ridge
  • Author: Mason Macrae
  • Publisher: Edward J. Clode, NY
  • Publication Year: 1935
  • Binding: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
  • Print: 1st
  • Edition: 1st
  • Version: U.S.

“Crimson killer lights suddenly flashed in the gunhawk’s eyes. With lithe agility he flung himself aside and down in the gun snatch” … Red Kyle beat the killer’s friends. Thus began the savage warfare that was to embroil all of Elk Ridge. On the one hand flame-tempered Red and his friends, and on the other, the ruthless jackals of a corrupt law office.

And alone against both sides was young Flip Nickerson, the new deputy sheriff. Flip’s sweetheart couldn’t understand or forgive a duty that was not to be turned aside by friendship. But Red did, when he smiled a wry smile at the sheriff as they faced off over drawn guns.

This is not only story of a bloody battle, but also a story of a friendship that was stranger than duty. A friendship that gathered in Jim Baggot, football star from the East, and Claire Waddell, daughter of the arch enemy. A friendship that, at last, turned disaster into triumph and brought both law and justice to Elk Ridge.

Here is a fast, crackling novel that brings a note of cheerful humor and gay romance into the chronicle of stratagems and smoking guns.


The Sheriff of Elk Ridge was the first Western Mr. Rubel wrote under the pen name (nom de plume) or pseudonym: Mason MacRae.


The Sheriff of Elk Ridge was subsequently published a 2nd time in England in 1945.

  • Title: The Sheriff of Elk Ridge
  • Author: Mason Macrae
  • Publisher: Sovereign Books Ltd.
  • Publication Year: 1945
  • Binding: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
  • Print: 2st
  • Edition: 1st
  • Version: U.K. / Europe

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