A Group of swindlers, led by her new foreman, Hal Colby, plot to steal her Bar-Y ranch and gold mine and defraud her out of her rightful inheritance. They are also out to prove that her longtime friend and associate, bull is the stage robbing and murdering bandit of Hell's Bend. Diana is brave and independent, but she relies on Bull and he helps her survive a series of perils that leave the most stalwart reader breathless: Apache raids, stagecoach hold-ups, shoot-outs and even an abduction! But the identity of the mysterious villain remains unknown...

A good deal of the novel's authority and amiability consists in its accurate and pervasive use of frontier humor. The Bandit Of Hell's Bend is full of fun, adventure, and suspense from start to finish.

From Dick Spargur's early ERB Fanzine:
The Long Sword ". . . Charly (Kagay) and I wrote a song to accompany the lyrics found in The Bandit of Hell's Bend and sung throughout the book by the character Texas Pete. We decided to print the song, arranged and harmonized by my dad, in this issue and wanted to include the lyrics themselves. To that end I wrote to Hulbert Burroughs requesting permission which he gladly gave as long as it was copyrighted. 

"That was fine with us and so we became holders of a copyright that we shared with Edgar Rice Burroughs. It's real too; I found it in Lexis-Nexis copyright files and elsewhere and was renewed by ERB, Inc. in the early 90s—just in case Nashville became interested, I suppose… It appeared in issue #3 with the copyright notation under the title of "Texas Pete’s Song". Talk about busting your buttons! I was on cloud nine for days, weeks afterwards.

"The song's music appeared in the summer of 1966 in the third issue of our fanzine, The Long Sword.   For lack of a better name, we called it "Texas Pete's Song".  Later we learned that it was really a poem, written by Edgar Rice Burroughs for his novel, called "The Passing of My Pal Bill". 

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"To Ella Kern, Wishing you many happy returns of the day, Edgar Rice Burroughs, September 16, 1935."

Laid in is a get-well card with an inscription by Florence Gilbert Burroughs, grandaughter of Ella Kerns:

"Wish we were nearer so we could come and see you often. Love, Florence and Eddie." 

Florence's mother Maude has signed her name in pencil to the top of the front pastedown, and on the free endpaper, bracketing the inscription, there are two penciled addresses, noted as "the two addresses...where Ed and Florence lived."

First Edition Copy inscribed to Flo's brother Eddie Gilbert