''Mad River'' is a

western novel Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 20th century and ...

Donald Hamilton Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime ...

Plot summary

Boyd Cohoon comes back from prison for the girl; her brother, who'd done the crime; the mine owner who'd gotten rich; and the sheriff, his boyhood friend.

Publication history

*1956, US, Collier's, 1/6/1956, 1/20/1956, 2/3/1956,

serial (literature) In literature, a serial is a printing or publishing format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in smaller, sequential instalments. The instalments are also known as ''numbers'', ''parts'' or ''fascicl ...

*1956, US, Dell, Dell First Edition #91, paperback *1957, UK, Allan Wingate, hardcover *1965, US,

Fawcett Publications Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Fawcett, Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett (1885–1940). It kicked off with the publication of the bawdy humor magazine ''Captai ...

, Gold Medal k1500, paperback, reissued many times 1956 American novels Western (genre) novels Novels by Donald Hamilton {{1950s-western-novel-stub