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"Danny Logan was a young man with only one thing on his mind--revenge! Ten years earlier he and his father had ridden into a wild, untamed Laramie, and inside of a week his father was dead, murdered by the outlaw Moyer gang. Danny had lived to see a ...
"Texas Ranger Lieutenant Luke Caldwell is leading a detachment of Rangers when they are ambushed by an outlaw gang. After a hard-fought battle, the Rangers defeat the gang, but at the price of several dead and wounded. Among the most severely hurt is...
"Carse Boling and Martin "Stag" Staggart were partners in the Coffin cattle spread, the most successful in the area. Carse ruled the land with his fists and his streaking gun hand. Stag was the businessman, when he was sober enough, and the husband of...
The nephew of President Hayes has been murdered in Crows Creek, so he orders the governor to hire a marshal - someone with a proven track record for solving crimes. Unfortunately, what he gets is Daniel Wheetman, an Englishman with no experience of the...
The days of slaughtering buffalo are meant to be over, with so pitifully few of them remaining. But with top dollar on offer for their severed heads as trophies, some hunters just can't resist. In Yellowstone Park, Captain Moses Harris and his company...
Outlaw chief Keane O'Leary decides it's time to retire from a life of banditry, unaware that he is about to unleash a violent sequence of events. His three daughters are the heirs to his empire of crime - and hell hath no fury like a woman who covets...
Dalton, Kansas is a town split in two: north of the railroad line, life is decent and ordered; on the south side, cowboys raise hell and the riff-raff of the world frequent the streets. Into this place comes Wes Galway, a former Union soldier. Wes wants...
"Was it vengeance, hate, or just plain cussedness that brought John Cameron back to Wolf Springs? Whatever it was, it meant trouble and bloodshed - something the townsfolk wanted to avoid at all costs. They'd been reduced to a quaking band of yellow bellies...
"The US Army sourly went about the task of protecting its former enemies from white 'intruders' - and wondered when things would start making sense again. Civilian scout Scott Craig had his own troubles. Army officers didn't trust him because he had ...
"Death or cowardice? Randy Harker had no choice. He wanted to stay in Lander and shoot it out with Thatcher. If he left, he would carry the yellow brand of a coward till he cashed in his chips. But out in the hills was an old man being tortured for the...
"Two powerful railroads clash in a dispute over the Royal Gorge right-of-way to serve a valuable silver strike in Colorado. A reclusive financier with substantial holdings in the Denver & Rio Grande commissions the Knights of Labor to foment labor un...
"Billy The Kid had been free of Garrett's jail in Lincoln just a few weeks when he rode into Fort Sumner that fateful night in 1881--and there, in a hail of lead, began the wildest chase in the history of the American West. Garrett killed the wrong man...
"Ten years have passed since Jack Picaro lost his Ghost Rifle--the firearm he invented, the one that never missed its target. The loss of the rifle calmed the hellraiser in his soul. Instead of returning to the gambling halls and whiskey bars of St. ...
"Silver Cloud, Montana. A mining town welcome to all seeking to make their fortune. And a place where a lawman has to watch his back before some hardcase empties his pistol into it. Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeremiah Halstead is escorting notorious outlaw ...
"Gold Dust and Blood- a trail that led Ranger Ace Walt Slade straight to the Cap Rock country and a gun-blazing showdown with the craftiest owl hoot in Texas. Tarp Henry was an outlaw jack-of-all-crimes- rustling, murder, train holdups anything that ...
"Old Riley Adams, who owned the Anvil, had taken him in and treated him like a son. But then Riley had taken it into his head to run Will off his ranch for some cattle rustling he hadn't done. When Will heard that Riley Adams was dying, he came back to...
When a gang of outlaws kills Deputy Jack Tanner's ma and pa, he hunts them down, one by one. The trail leads him deep into the mountains of Mexico. There, he encounters the mysterious Queen of Meseta de Plata - boss of the notorious 'thieves' town' -...
A terrible fear paralyses Leyton, Texas. On the morning Sheriff Jack Anderson is to hang an innocent youth for horse theft, Jim Jackson arrives, searching for the man who betrayed him and sent him to hell for ten years. Is Anderson that man? How can ...
The deadly hired killer Fire Wolf is heading to a remote settlement in answer to a telegram message. On his way there, he tangles bloodily with three wanted outlaws in the ghost town known as Gold Strike. When other outlaws show up, they vow vengeance...
Sam Gibbons was a tomboy, through and through. Though her wealthy Boston family tried in vain to turn her into a lady, she was eager to explore and lead a life of adventure, rather than stagnate in the stultifying tea-and-cake circle of respectable s...
"Tracking down a crazy Confederate scheme to capture Colorado was the kind of job Union Captain Tom Baird was ready for. But he hadn't reckoned on a hidden cache of ammunition big enough to equip a small army--or the surprising partnership of a beaut...
"Standing out in front of the Elkhorn National Bank, unshaven, his black hair beginning to curl at his neck, his clothing about as badly worn as that of any of the trail riders who'd come up with him from Texas, Emmett Kane definitely did not look like...
"Howdy Merchant was a nice, quiet guy who liked to live his own life in his own way. But he was never free from one soul-searching memory: the cold-blooded killing of his father by Black Mike Guzman. Years had gone by, and Howdy had worked endlessly to...
"Ben Lyman, son of Quakers and friend to the Indians, was looking for contraband guns. Better than anyone, Ben knew what possession of these weapons could do. More than anyone, he wanted to prevent an outbreak and the massacre that would follow. But ...
"There's a storm brewing in Oklahoma Territory, and this time, it's deadly serious. Local cattle ranches are being targeted by Texas rustlers - and the only man who can keep it from turning into a bloodbath is U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner. The newly...
Sailors Diggings, an isolated mining settlement, is left reeling when outlaws slaughter seventeen of the stunned population and clean out the assay office, stealing
Union Army deserter Cody Black thinks Gold Hill is a safe place to hide out the war and make his fortune. But Cody finds prospecting to be a tough business, and soon finds himself in debt to the local gold baron. Desperate for work, he is forced to become...
Ben Joyner has no argument with the people who settled on the grassland near Pecos, but other cattlemen have long considered the range their own domain. Ben's boss Gus Remarque believes a dollar a day buys not only a man's labour, but his loyalty too....
With his job as a line rider under threat, Mack Cambray hopes to settle down with his bride as a homesteader. However, in trying to solve the mystery of his wife's untimely death, he ends up in the middle of a violent range war...--Publisher's descri...
"As vigilantes tightened the rope around Parrott's neck, they gave him one last chance to identify his confederates in the holdup of the U.P. pay train that had taken place two years earlier, 'Jack Campbell,' he gasped, 'Jack Campbell and Homer Hatch...
"Pull your freight or pull your gun! That was the challenge flung at tenderfoot Hugh Travis by the fighting Caldwells. Hugh was a new-comer in Apache Basin. A peaceable man, he wasn't looking for trouble. But when he tried to halt the range war in which...
"A collection of stories on frontier life in the Pacific Northwest. The stories tell of hardships faced by ranchers, of settlers in wagon trains on the Oregon Trail fighting off Indians, and of steamboat builders and river pilots."-- Publisher's desc...
"Meade Bigelow had sweated blood to build a mining empire in Wyoming. But he'd be damned if he'd let thieves crush honest people just to fatten their pokes. Overnight the town of Silver City exploded with gunfire. Men took sides: Conover's side when ...
"Jim-twin Allen had promised his beloved Snippets he would give up killing and gave her his guns. He had been pardoned by the Governor, but if he kills again, he will be an outcast and they will not be able to marry. But the Black Hawk Gang is set on...
Bannock, a hardened frontiersman, and his friend Chet Butler are escorting members of a religious sect through northern Mexico. Eager to escape persecution, the 'Children of God' have fled the USA in search of a new home. Unfortunately for these stri...
Army scout Wink Jefford finds himself put on trial for helping a captured Apache escape from Fort Defiance in New Mexico. Forced to leave in disgrace, Jefford is hired to guide some settlers to the town of Tularosa, but they are attacked by Apaches led...
At the age of twenty-eight, Chace Hexx is in danger of letting life pass him by. Drifting from ranch to ranch, he hones his skills with guns, horses, and cattle - but to what purpose? Then, out of the blue, a proposition is made... Gunplay, tragedy, ...
Spring, 1861. Jed Harker aims for nothing more than to mind his own business while travelling north to Kansas. But men and women are taking sides all over the United States, and Harker finds himself compelled to declare where he stands on slavery. He...
Brody comes to Brentwood Falls in Arizona. Territory to keep a pledge made at his mother's deathbed: to avenge the wrong done to her years earlier. Though wealthy, he prefers a life of manual labour, and accepts employment shoeing horses in the town ...
They came in the night, and took away every inhabitant of the isolated mining settlement they could capture. Men, women, and one child were stolen from that town named Purgatory. But one man was left behind... John King, who had fought heroically against...
Lone Ridge was a lawless hellhole... until the ruthless Nyle King eliminated all the gunslingers. Now he controls the town, and everyone who opposes him ends up dead. Marshal Caine tasks his deputy Gabriel Flynn with bringing King to justice. Flynn, ...
Sweetspring is a quiet town... until an itinerant gang of robbers causes havoc. Wesley Vernon, a mine engineer, thinks he recognizes their leader as a childhood friend, and determines to bring him to justice. But before he sets off he is devastated to...
"When range detective Rance Dehner catches up with the vicious Kid Madero gang, a horrific gunfight ensues and all three members of the gang are killed. But Dehner's problems are just beginning. Before he dies, Madero mockingly taunts the detective by...
"Bon Ord loved adventure. Much to his father's displeasure, Bon kept company with some rather disreputable characters. Sherriff John Ord was determined that if he ever caught them with the goods, he would arrest them all – even if his own son was part...
"Sessions peered over the edge of his shallow rifle pit to look at the Cheyennes massing. They had the tiny band of army scouts surrounded and were ready for the kill. The chances of escape were a thousand to one. And if those odds weren't bloody enough,...
"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 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...
"Was he on the trail of justice - or the road into hell? Jim Bannister was a man of few hungers, but he was hungry for justice. He was on the trail of a beautiful and mysterious woman - the one witness who could help clear his name." -- Publisher.
"Now it was up to the two men to catch the man Silver had pledged to kill - for Silver's honour and his life. Arizona Jim Silver had to find Rap Bender, Judge Bender's missing son - the same Rap Bender who had joined guns with Silver's oldest and de...
"When "Slow-Down" Munn, deputy U. S. marshal, arrives one night in the hell-bending copper camp of Laughing Horse, it is with the intention of posing as a drifting smokeroo and hiring out his pistols to Sheriff Loma Jack, who it seems is powerless to...
"The cattlemen knew if the nesters were allowed to move onto their ranges, more would come and it would spell the end of their way of life. So the Cattleman's Association sent for Mulvane. He rode into town late on a rainy afternoon, alone, a tall, lean...
"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...
"It should have been the back-shooting, throat-cutting Bandini who bled his life away into the dust of that dark alley. It was a one-shot kill. But it wasn't the man Silvertip meant to kill. It was just a kid wearing Bandini's cape. And while Silvertip...
"Jim Bannister is on the lam again- still with that 12,000 dollar bounty on his head for killing a Western Development Corporation field representative. WDC's Boyd Selden is hot on Bannister's trail - to tell him that he believes Bannister innocent! But...
"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...
"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 ...
"Shots rocked! the Silver Valley Bank! Two guards went down, their dead hands clutching half-drawn guns. Rance hurled himself sideways, his Colts beating a drum-roll of fire. Men boiled out of the open vault and the ranger balsted them back. This was...
"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...
Former Texas Ranger Link Carter rides into Singletree, and straight into trouble. Deputy Burton pulls a gun on him, prompting Link to fire in self-defence, and he's thrown into a cell. Turns out it's a case of mistaken identity - Nick, his twin, is wanted...
When Joe Spearman sees a face from the past, he gets a shock. It's the face of a killer - one who now has a good deal of influence and power in the little town of Ox Crossing. Someone who won't want his past catching up with him. However, before Joe can...
Anson Hawkstone is on the trail of an errant husband who deserted his wife and infant child to become a cowboy in Wyoming Territory. His quest becomes complicated when he encounters three people - a deserted Mormon wife, a white Kiowa captive, and a ...
Lawyer Josh Thorn believes in law and justice. Even so, when he agrees to defend prostitute Rosa May Whitefield, he knows he jeopardizes his standing in the community. The California mining town of Bodie averages a killing a day, but Rosa May's crime...
"Someone, or something, is killing people in the rural areas of counties north and west of Austin. Brains are being removed, and bodies mutilated. The few witnesses, including a deputy sheriff, who encountered the killers and survived insist they are...
"To an outlaw like Joel Kelly, a fat payroll would be irresistible. So the railroad detectives baited their ambush carefully. Sacks bulging with gold were loaded on the train. Then the news was 'leaked' so Kelly would hear it. But, in addition to the...
"Mulvane rode out of the mountains and up the main street of hell. He was a tall man, riding easy, but there was the proud, watchful look of a hawk in his eyes and a steel-spring force in the way he moved. The hardcase toughs and killers of Grand Jun...
"It is 1866. Nineteen-year-old Jason Collins is sent from New Orleans to the Colorado Territory with instructions for his father's friend to either make him a man or break him totally. Kidnapped off the stagecoach by highwaymen, abandoned in the middle...
"When young Gordon Elliot was sent to Alaska by the Commissioner of the General Land Office to investigate the validity of the Kamatlah claims, he was warned about Colby MacDonald. "The biggest man in Alaska, bar none," they said. But they also said:...
"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...
Sonny Tabor is a man charged with a string of murders, feared for his accuracy with a gun, and relentlessly pursued by those seeking the reward being offered for his capture. But he is also a man wrongfully accused, shooting only in self-defence, and...
Fast on the grab and twice as accurate - that was Comanche John. He'd travelled a long, long way during his hell-roaring years of roaming and road-agenting: sleeping on the ground, dodging bullets and the hangman's rope. Some called him the worst sid...
When Ed Morgan got word that his brother Ben had been released from prison, he set out to see him immediately, hoping for reconciliation between them. Instead, he found Ben near death, with one final request. He made Ed swear to recover the fifty tho...
Ella Mae Campbell traveled west with her family in a wagon train in 1860. But she never made it to Denver City with them. During a terrifying attack, she was taken captive by marauding Indians. No one thought she would survive - or would even want to...
"Luke Ransom was just eighteen years old when he answered an ad in a St. Louis newspaper that would change his life forever. The American Fur Company needed one hundred enterprising men to travel up the Missouri River--the longest in North America--all...
The Missouri River is the gateway to the West: a thousand miles of mud, sudden torrents, treacherous currents, hidden snags, unexpected inlets, hostile Indians hidden behind every bend. And Captain Brant McRae knows every turn in it like the back of his...
Quist sets off for Quivira City to clear up the murder of one Whitney Clayton, a man who had no mourners at his funeral. No lack of suspects, though, as both Clayton's widow and her brother - children of the powerful cattle baron Grizzly Baldridge - ...
Here's a good old-fashioned Western with plenty of shooting and a rip-snorting bunch of characters that will keep you laughing from hell to breakfast. Follow the vicissitudes of Misery Jones, trying to keep his faith in a harsh land. Dive into the br...
There was a range war brewing: cattlemen against farmers, a familiar kind of trouble. But when Slade rode into Oresta - and into a hail of bullets - he found things weren't that simple. He put a stop to the range war, all right; but then the outlaw w...
"Ben Sladeen left New Orleans to move to a ranch at Two Mile called the Barbed Wire. An old enemy follows him there and buys an adjacent ranch. His painful past in New Orleans returns to haunt him in the guise of the King brothers and Curly Temper."-...
"Gold Dust and Blood - a trail that led Ranger Ace Walt Slade straight to the Cap Rock country and a gun-blazing showdown with the craftiest owlhoot in Texas. Tarp Henry was an outlaw jack-of-all-crimes -- rustling, murder, train holdups ... anything...
"Old Riley Adams, who owned the Anvil, had taken him in and treated him like a son. But then Riley had taken it into his head to run Will off his ranch for some cattle rustling he hadn’t done. When Will heard that Riley Adams was dying, he came back to...
Bill Dawson is a man seeking the pot of gold at the rainbow's end. He drifts into a small cow town, only to buy himself a packet of trouble with the Big S retainers. Soon he is working for the Trents, and enraptured by the lovely Lila. Ultimately, he...
The three big cattle outfits of New Orlando are being bled dry by rustlers. Pat Reagan, range detective for the Texas Panhandle Stockmen's Association, is assigned to work undercover as a ranch hand for George Albert of the Box-A, and bring the thieves...
Old Hannibal Putnam was a man who just didn't know when he was licked. Not only had he set out to build a railroad on borrowed money, it had to be high up in the hills. And now there's a spy in the camp. Someone who certainly doesn't want a railroad ...
The Three Mesquiteers - Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke, and Lullaby Joslin - return with their special brand of triple trouble! Two gunfighters arrive in Los Potros the same day, both seeking Tucson. One is anxious to shake the hand of the man who befriended...
"It is 1865. Jesse Wilder has survived the horrors of Shiloh, the hell of a Yankee prison camp, and the shame of volunteering for the Union army of the West - the only way to escape certain death in the camp. Now the war is over and he has come home ...
"Sam Bass was just a farm boy from Indiana, but he wound up in Texas and became one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of the Old West. Texas history has often referred to Bass as "Texas' Beloved Bandit" or "Robin Hood on a Fast Horse." Jerry...
"As vigilantes tightened the rope around George Parrott's neck, they gave him one last chance to identify his confederates in the holdup of the U.P. pay train that had taken place two years earlier. "Jack Campbell," he gasped. "Jack Campbell and Homer...
"On the night of September 2, 1878, two men died. One was Colonel James McAllister, the commander of Fort Robinson in northwestern Nebraska. The other was Iron Mountain, chief of the Cheyenne living in exile on the Darlington Reservation near Fort Reno...
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...
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