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The old woman was dying. That meant a lot of things to Will Titus. It meant sorrow, for she'd raised him from a pup. It meant one fewer good person in a world where they were rare enough already. But mostly, it meant the eventual arrival of Bart Laney....
Oil and bullets - Sanderson City has swallowed plenty of both. When Walt Slade arrives to put a lid on the violence, the town is set to blow sky-high in his face. A lit fuse, a shotgun blast in the dark... and the ace undercover Texas Ranger is plunged...
In this trio of tales, honest thief James Geraldi embarks upon some of his greatest adventures, including a quest for the elusive Golden Horus, a gold statue inlaid with four perfect emeralds and a large, flawless yellow diamond. Whether he's seeking...
Quarter horse racing presents a thrill few men in the Old West can resist. Dude McQuinn, Coyote Walking, and Billy Lockhart are no exception, riding from town to town, matching and trading racehorses. Dude is the straight-talking front man, Coyote the...
Old Ben Malloy is a man without enemies. Yet he is murdered on a night-time trail ride - and suspicion divides his sons... After a shooting incident, Lew Harvey was forced to leave home and the girl he was courting. Now, a letter from her has summoned...
It's clear that Dan Mason had a hand in killing his cousin Bill in order to gain control of the family ranch, the Lazy M. Still, Cal Holland is determined to steer clear of another man's fight - until the fight is brought to his doorstep. Mason sends...
It was just one year ago that the O'Hara brothers planned to buy themselves a ranch, settle down, and raise some stock. But that was before Milton disappeared the night after he won forty-four hundred dollars at a poker game. Certain that his brother...
Roaming Reynolds and Texas Joe find themselves helping out a couple of old ranchers who are being plagued by rustlers. Reynolds suspects that local cattle baron Griff Tyson, owner of the Deuce of Diamonds spread, is behind the trouble. But Tyson is quite...
"Walt Lee wants to be an Arizona Ranger, but Captain Tom McDonough has a challenge for him to complete first. Rancher Bruce 'Wolf' Felton has long been suspected of rustling, but the Rangers were never able to prove anything. Since Walt worked on the...
"Wild horses ... evil men! Parade - a magnificent stallion worth twice his weight in cold cash. And many men had set out to capture this legendary prize. Some never returned. Some came back stony-broke. Others were ruined by desert heat and mountain ...
"The Duroys--Clint and Lee--are brothers but as different as night and day. Clint's a joker and a cowhand for life; Lee is a serious journalism student home for the summer to earn money for school. On a day when Clint's shenanigans land him in jail, Lee...
Emily Bragg, captive of the Comanches, has been with them for years. When a new prisoner is brought to the camp, she befriends and protects her. But when a Comanchero promises to ransom both women, Emily is not sure she wants to leave... When the Pen...
Infamous low-lives, the Strong brothers will do anything for a quick buck - but this is going to be no ordinary kidnap. They are paid to abduct two young men, and don't ask too many questions when their paymaster gives them some unusual instructions....
Reuben and Grace Chisholm led a happy, almost idyllic, life on a small homestead - until the day that was to change their lives. In the saloon, Reuben heard that their closest neighbours, the Carver family, had been murdered and their home destroyed....
"Acclaimed author James J. Griffin, noted for his fine stories of the Texas Rangers, joins the West of the Big River stable with The Ranger, a short novel featuring real-life Ranger Sergeant J.S. Turnbo. Tangling with rustlers, bank robbers and road agents...
"The letter forwarded from the local federal law office in El Paso read – 'All hell's fixin' to break loose up here. Sheriff's scairt to make a move. I ain't. I fit Injuns an' polecats before an' no bunch of masked tinhorn killers is gonna run me off...
"He said his name was John Rutledge, and it had all started out as a simple favor - the return of a body to the ranch where the dead man had once been employed. But the circumstances of the killing - a cold-blooded gun-down - and the ominous parting words...
"Arizona Jim Silver had to find Rap Brender, Judge Brender's missing son - the same Rap Brender who had joined guns with Silver's oldest and deadliest enemy. But when the legendary Silvertip finally caught up with Brender, they shared a common enemy -...
"Dude McQuinn is at it one more time. He's got himself one hell of a horse. A real flyer named Judge Blair. Better than that, he's got the smoothest snake-oil salesman in the country, Billy Lockhart, as his trainer – and he's got his old Comanche pal,...
"For Smoke and his daughter Denny, life on the Sugarloaf Ranch is more valuable than all the gold in the world. Which works out fine, since all the gold mines in Big Rock were squeezed dry years ago. Even so, that won't stop a pair of smooth-talking....
"He'll need more than his artistic ability to survive this deadly winter! Before he was a world-famous Western artist, Charles M. 'Charlie' Russell was a horse wrangler on a ranch in Montana during the worst winter in that state's history. The danger...
Lonesome Lang and Tarnation Tucker watch a runaway buckboard hit a hairpin turn and vanish... Dave Worth is transported back to Lode City to be charged with murder - and finds a lynch mob waiting at the station... George Brandon and Rosie O'Grady fin...
A young man is in a quandary when all the evidence in two murder cases points directly at his father... A guard is forced to choose between a seemingly impossible love and complicity in a stagecoach robbery... A Texas cattle rancher rides into New Mexico...
George Houston's line of work carries with it infamy and danger, and it's not long before his peaceable ride through Utah is cut dramatically short. After a bank robbery and the killing of one of its leading businessmen, the town of Bullhead is angry...
Not all criminals wear masks and carry guns. Some hide behind respectability and seldom wield a weapon. The Valerons seek justice for an attack and theft, but they find no smoking gun, no gunmen, not a single piece of evidence against the perpetrators....
Jacob Merriweather is riding west to start a new life. He befriends travelling preacher, Sam Critchley, who suggests they go to a smallholding owned by his friends. But they find the Salingers shot dead. They report the murder to the local sheriff, and...
On his way out West, Ben Tower rescues beautiful Mattie Sullivan, the lone survivor of a doomed wagon train. Ben and Mattie fall in love and plan to travel West to start a new life together. But the trail westwards is never easy? Wild animals, greedy...
Blue Creek Ben Chisum rescues a homesteader from ruthless vigilantes. The grateful man offers him a half share in his farming business. Ben is loath to become involved in a range war, but accepts after learning that his treacherous old partner, Squint...
Iron Eyes finds himself staring at a forest. A forest that reminds him of a time long before he had become the scarred infamous bounty hunter he now was. As he waits for his beloved Squirrel Sally to show up on her stagecoach, his mind drifts back to...
"It looked like Denver Jones was going to end his young life on the end of a Texas rope. Arrested for robbing the local bank and slitting the throat of its cashier, his guilt seems certain when three men deliver him from jail and a train is robbed the...
"The best secret agent the South had was L. L. Henderson. She was also a beautiful woman and a counterspy for the Union army. Her men were dangerous hardcases: hired guns, drunks, drifters, a murderous freed slave and the sweet-talker who was her lover....
"A remarkable battle was fought at Beecher Island, Colorado, in 1868. Forty-nine untrained civilian volunteers, two wounded officers and a dying Army doctor were nailed down on a sand-bar in a shallow river by more than a thousand Cheyenne, Arapahoe and...
"Orrin Porter Rockwell is more than just a deputy United States marshal and a deadly gunfighter. He's a member of the Mormon Danites, the group of enforcers known as the Avenging Angels, and he's the personal troubleshooter for Governor Brigham Young....
A family is brutally murdered and their homestead burnt to the ground. Some say it was the work of renegade Cheyenne. Sheriff Gus Ward has his doubts, but evidence is scant. Gus is faced with the savage reality that justice might not be served unless...
Until the night of the fire, Stanton, Montana, was a peaceful town. Its marshal, Silas Tasker, rejoiced in the knowledge that he had rid the town of the kind of rip-roaring reputation attributed to so many other cattle-towns across the west. But in t...
When the woman he loves marries someone else, Henry Mullins decides to ride off into the great unknown. Intending to get to Los Angeles, he is forced inland and eventually into the Sierra Nevadas, where he starts to trap wild animals to stay alive. Attacked...
Josiah Wakefield and his friend Dan Sturgis find work as troubleshooters for the Union Pacific Railroad. The pair discover that someone is supplying Sioux warriors with repeating rifles, and that stolen 'Double Eagles' are the incentive. Recovering the...
Sometime Pinkerton Agent, Deputy US Marshal and freelance detective Lucas Santana is ordered south to Riverton County, Texas, to investigate the rumoured growing unrest there. The ambitious Frank Vagg controls the local law on both the Mexican and Texas...
When the Kenny brothers break out of jail, Deputy Sheriff Ben Stile takes after them, but at that moment Cal Roney, Pinkerton detective, is riding into town and takes a bullet meant for Stile. He is nursed back to health by Emilia Stile and Doc Dan Heath....
Jeremiah Hackett is a young man searching for a future. On his quest, he teams up with huckster George Finimin, a tonic salesman. When Finimin is murdered, Jeremiah dedicates himself to finding the killer. But things do not prove straightforward for ...
Sam Heggarty returns home to hunt for the gunmen who robbed and executed his father. As he makes his way back, he witnesses another murder and stumbles across a clue to the people responsible for his father's death. He discovers that the one person who...
"Crippled by an accident and at the mercy of the cheating overseer of his ranch, Curt Ramsey appeals for help from his estranged brothers, who must run a gauntlet of Indians and outlaws to reach the ranch. The Crosshatch Ranch had seen better times in...
"At long last, U.S. Marshal Aaron Mackey and Deputy Billy Sunday will see crime baron James Grant and his kill-crazy cronies stand trial for the mayhem and suffering they unleashed on the people of Dover Station. But as Montana Territory's statehood ...
"Silvertip killed someone. Usually not something he would get all bent out of shape about, but this just happened to be a kid wearing the cape of the man Silvertip meant to kill. The man he meant to kill, named Bandini, set the teenager and in effect...
"From its scattered forts the Army struggled to keep peace, but every cavalryman going on patrol realized that it might be his last. During the years following the Civil War, Wyoming, Dakota and Montana territories seethed with unrest as the Sioux and...
"Grasshoppers in Summer tells the epic story of making and breaking the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 as seen through the eyes of opposing political, military, and tribal leaders. Relentless fraud, corruption, and cultural and political pressures frust...
"Johnstone Country. Where it’s never quiet on the Western front. Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy 'Slash' Braddock and Melvin 'Pecos Kid' Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to...
"Two western novels featuring Bear Haskell, U.S. Deputy Marshal, who rides for Chief Marshal Henry Dade out of Denver's First District Court. Haskell's a former Union war hero and Pinkerton agent, a big man over six and a half feet tall and as broad as...
"Gregory Quist, man-hunter extraordinaire, was in Masquerade City to investigate a train wreck and a robbery, when two young wildcats -- Ramon and Chris -- sidetrack him with a tale of murder. Their boss, Reed Haldane, had been found dead in his bed the...
"While trying to find new challengers for the horse he had won in a poker game, Dude McQueen and his sidekicks--Coyote Walking, the Eastern-educated Comanche jockey, and Uncle Billy, the talented horse doctor and trainer--come across dangerous inform...
"For over half a century the Nez Percés had lived in peace with their white neighbors. Now, in 1877, they were to be rewarded for their friendship by being moved to a reservation in Idaho. Gold had been discovered, and the red man had to make room for...
"They sing songs about Matthew Johnson. The hero of dime novels, Matt won national fame during a range war in Idaho when he shot and killed an outlaw -- and former saddle pal. But the past seventeen years have been an alcoholic blur rather than a her...
"After a child is accidentally killed in a shootout, Art Catlin decides to give up his life of bounty hunting and finds a new career as a drover, working for the Bar X ranch. The trail is 770 miles from Santa Fe to Independence, Missouri, and Art isn't...
Tom and Myrt Gallard were good people, even though they were white. They were old-timers so maybe they knew a little bit more than most about Indians, and somehow they had never gotten around to thinking of them as any different to themselves. So it was...
Vern sure had the knack of getting into a parcel of trouble. First the damfool cattle had stampeded, and he'd been sent to find and bring back the twenty-odd beefs that had gone and lost themselves. Then he discovered the dead Spaniard - with pockets...
Link Bonner never wanted to gain a reputation as a fast hand with a six-gun, plus the will to use it. But sometimes circumstances drive the lives of men beyond their own desires. And Bonner was such a man, always in the middle of trouble he wasn't looking...
Marshal Reuben Kane is charged with finding the men who have spread terror and violence in an unprecedented bank robbing spree. It's a routine, albeit dangerous, assignment - until he discovers Sal McIntyre, badly beaten and left to die by the criminals...
Anton Kozlov has escaped Russia and made a new life for himself on Battle Mountain in Nevada. When he's asked to do a favor for a US Cavalry officer - retrieve a mail-order bride from a stage station - it sounds easy enough... until he learns that the...
Sin is a profitable commodity in a mining town like Motherlode. Lust makes money for the brothel madam Miss Jenny; wrath and avarice create targets for manhunter Jonah Durrell; and newspaperman Hulton Robinson is greedy for stories. When Louise Waterford,...
"Over the past twenty years, William "Bull" Kelly led legendary cattle drives, acquiring a reputation as one of the best ramrods in Texas. But after years of working for other people, Kelly decides to run cattle on his own, with his five sons. Everyt...
"When the Ridgeway family staked their claim on more than 40,000 acres of land in northwest Texas, they knew they had their work cut out for them. Located on a sharp bend of the treacherous Red River, their new home - the Rocking R Ranch - was just a...
"Here are the men who ran the West and rode the outlaw trail. Tough, daring, unbeatable, they lived by the law of the gun and, if necessary, they were ready to die ... by the law of the gun. Roud Vaughn: A gunslinger who wants to put the past behind ...
"Pulpit Rock was a mining town where fistfights were entertainment, hanging was a way of life and the law was whatever foul temper Sheriff Hawk Fremont was in that day. The town, having enough of Hawk's brand of justice, knew the only way he would come...
"Lawless terror gripped Southwest Arizona. Bandits pillaged and plundered. Gambling dens and brothels flourished openly. Men drank and died from the devil's brew of blood and whiskey, gunsmoke and gold! Into this bullet splattered hell Rance Hatfield...
"He was young and hard and dangerous and he had learned it all from the most notorious badman who ever rode the border – his father, Nate Blaine. The deserted son of an outlaw gets on the town's bad side after his father is framed for the killing a l...
Secrecy, armed guards - nothing stops the Night Riders. Nobody knows who they are or where they come from - only that no gold and no lives are safe while they ride. Walt Slade, undercover ace of the Texas Rangers, is the man most feared by the owlhoots...
Stubborn family loyalty means Grant Lunsford, roving cowpuncher, won't change his name, despite the fact that being the younger brother of notorious outlaw, Boss Lunsford, costs him job after job. But when he beats up a bartender after hearing the po...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid have given up robbing banks and trains in favour of settling down as ranch owners and waiting to hear from the Governor of Wyoming about a possible pardon. Then they have an unfortunate encounter with Luther Greeley,...
A dying man named Peter Barker asks Sheriff Quigley to deliver a message to his family. Quigley does so - only to find himself the target of range baron Huston McRae, who controls everything in Gila County, including the law. McRae doesn't want an ou...
Harry James Luck - Civil War veteran, US Cavalry captain; gambler, sometime lawman, and part-time drunk - resigns his commission and heads south to the High Plains country of Texas. There, he meets the lovely Bonnie Luxford, buys a ranch, and hopes to...
After Darren Norton shoots Arthur Hamlin dead during a card game, he goes on the run, leaving behind his girlfriend Sal the Gal. A reward is put up for his capture, and bounty hunter Gustavus Greeley is soon on his trail. He catches Norton in the hills,...
"The herd had trailed 1,000 miles from Texas and survived parched-dry land, storm and lightning. But nothing prepared them for the stampede when the cattle refused to cross the strange new tracks. The result was disaster for Zack Keech and his father...
"Henry Logan rides with a mission when he arrives in the border town of Nogales, Arizona Territory – skiptracing the location of wealthy rancher Richard I. Parrish. Trust checks in his name have been faithfully cashed each month, but Richard has stop...
"The Civil War is over. The future of the American West is up for grabs. Any man crazy enough to lead a herd of Texas longhorns to the north stands to make a fortune – and make history. That man would be Nelson Story. A bold entrepreneur and miner, he...
"Guns at the ready ... Devil's Due is a lawless town populated by outlaws and ruled by the savage Beau Rawlins. The town provides a refuge for a band of vicious killers who are murdering nesters in nearby Capstone, Texas. The villainous Rawlins is using...
"Stranded in a tiny Texas hotel, Giselle Thibodeaux sees Kit Robertson, a fading country music star from her hometown. Overwhelmed with nostalgia, and hoping Kit might have answers to the secrets surrounding her parents, Giselle pretends to be a repo...
"He had hoped that his days as a witness seeker were behind him. But Chance Gamble once more is forced to return to his trade when the cruel actions of a wealthy and ruthless rancher result in a campaign of terror and violence executed by a vengeful,...
"There are some things in this world that can't be stopped. Like progress, a moving train, and the American Dream. When the bigwigs in Washington decide to build a transcontinental railroad to the West Coast, they need a man who's just as unstoppable...
"Ridge Parkman thinks he has it all sorted out. Hang up the Colt, turn in the badge, marry the woman, and move to Missouri to breed horses. Then an assignment comes along with his name all over it. Parkman nearly dies on the western slopes of the Rockies...
"A killer blizzard sweeping across the Southwest threatens the livelihoods of everyone in the town of Trinidad. But it's two gunshots that fell Sheriff Caleb York's unlucky deputy. As sure as the blood pooling in the snow, York knows it was a case of...
"Tricked into believing his fiancée had died in a stage robbery, a vengeful Texas Ranger trails the gang for years as he becomes a legend in song and dime novels before ending up on the side of a former outlaw with a sharp shooting niece, even as the...
"With two trail drives under his belt, Dewey "Mac" Mackenzie has proven to be more than a good chuckwagon cook. He's good at serving up justice, too--with a side of hot lead ... Mac Mackenzie has enough problems on his plate. He's got bounty hunters on...
"One man ruled the mountainside - and made a deal with the would-be railroad's competitors. If Simon Striker could stop the steel tracks, he could earn a fortune. Now a brawling, quarrelling crew of immigrant railroad workers - Chinese, Irish and Polish...
"Salem Hardesty was on the move. Ever since his boys had been attacked by the Sioux, Salem suspected Rafe Perrine of smuggling guns to the Indians. Now -- with Glenna's father gone -- he was sure. Salem wanted Perrine and his gang of rustlers -- and he...
"When he signed up to be sheriff of this dirty little boomtown, Aaron Mackey knew he was asking for trouble. Once, when Mackey was the U.S. marshal for the whole Montana Territory, he swore no job could get any harder. But that was before he took down...
"The town marshal of Beaumont was in the habit of advising its citizens – 'After dark, walk in the middle of the street and tote guns. And tote ’em in your hands, not on your hips, so everybody can see you’re loaded.' It was advice worth heeding, for...
"Murdo Morgan returned to Paradise Valley, Oregon, expecting trouble. Sixteen years earlier, his father had planned to help hundreds of families settle in the valley. Not wanting to lose their spread, local ranchers had murdered Morgan’s brothers and...
"Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk is looking forward to an easy Monday, until he gets a call from the Llano County Sheriff. A woman has been murdered, the only clue a dead chicken hanging beside her. Before Jim can complete his investigation, another body –...
Perry Hamil, a fugitive from Texas, is headed for the Canadian border. Riding through Montana, he witnesses the massacre of a stagecoach and all its passengers by the Sioux - and when he investigates what's left, he's inspired with an idea. What if one...
The burning land. That was what the Indians had called it. They had said the spirit of evil lived in the weathered, blistering breaks of the shattered old volcanic spill. Bentley knew what Herbert meant to do. He had brought them out here to set them...
When Sheriff Cornelius Doyle is shot dead, his estranged son Kane sets out to find the culprit. He hopes to reconcile with a family that didn't want to know him, but soon discovers that his father's apparently honourable life was a lie. The town had ...
When Meg Thornton becomes caught up in a bank raid, she is horrified to discover that one of the perpetrators is her brother Clay, who has been on the run since killing a barman in her home town. He has fallen in with the notorious Pike gang, and Eli...
When a Wells Fargo stage is robbed and all the passengers murdered, Sheriff Luke Callaghan is suspicious of Jackson Tate's claim that it was the work of Apaches. He sets off in pursuit of Tate and his gang, only to find himself battling the gun-running...
When Walter 'Wattie' Watters finds out that the hiding place of gold from a major robbery has been discovered, he's instantly on the trail. As the sheriff of a small town, he knows he must uphold the law. But
Melody Madigan is a cowpuncher who ordinarily leaves trouble alone. But when it comes in the form of a man with a gun in his hand, looking for him, he's the last man to back away from it - which is usually bad news as far as the troublemaker is concerned....
The Civil War is almost over, and up to now, Charlie Calloway has been a deserter, a compulsive gambler, and an irrepressible con man. But he is determined to reform for the love of Lorna, his erstwhile sweetheart, who left him to work with the destitute...
Since the signing of the Laramie Treaty, the tribes of the Plains have practised their nomadic lifestyle within the boundaries of the lands set aside for their use. While the Americans, the WASICUN, stay away, the tenuous peace is maintained. One wor...
Ten years ago, Johnny Hartford left Credence, Texas to become a Pinkerton Agent in Chicago. Now on his return, everything has changed: his dying father will barely speak to him, his brother is running wild, and longhorn rustling is rife. Determined to...
John Smiley is a travelling entertainer. As he and his son, John Junior, and daughter, Katie, are approaching the small township of Silver Spur in Kansas, they run up against Black Bart and his gang. Bart, a notorious gunman, demands money, and carbi...
When it comes to fighting outlaws, Josh Ford, Deputy United States Marshal, is hell on wheels - and this time he'll need to be. Two other lawmen have disappeared in the Moose River Mountains, and the trail leads to Stay, a small town under the heel of...
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