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THE WHISPERER

A Reata Story

Frederick Faust’s original title for this story was “The Whisperer.” Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine, where it was first published in the November 25, 1933, issue under the byline George Owen Baxter, changed the title to “Reata’s Danger Trail.” This was the second short novel to feature Reata, who proved to be one of Faust’s most popular characters among readers of this magazine, harking back to the enthusiasm that had met a previous, very different Faust character, Bull Hunter, in the same magazine a decade earlier. Like Bull Hunter, who was accompanied on his adventures by the stallion, Diablo, and the wolf dog, The Ghost, Reata also gains a mare and a mongrel, but they are very different from those found in the Bull Hunter stories. There would be seven short novels in all about Reata. The first, “Reata,” appears in THE FUGITIVE’S MISSION (Five Star Westerns, 1997). This is the second and continues Reata’s adventures after he successfully accomplishes the first of his three labors for Pop Dickerman.