John Savage was a resourceful man who had carved a prosperous cattle ranch out of the harsh Arizona landscape. He is a man whom the people of Tombstone had picked to bring law and order to their violent frontier. But the price of law and order came high.
The big man knew he was almost clear now. There was no one left who could connect him with the train robbery. No one, that is, except Frank Angel, special investigator for the US Justice Department. And Hainin knew that no matter what he did to slow the lawman's pursuit, he wouldn't be able to stop it.
Logan had outlived his welcome in Mexico so he rode back north of the Rio, figuring to square away past problems with the old man. But his father had died a month earlier and there was no welcome from big brother Tate, whose unholy alliance with a crooked attorney threatened to destroy what was left of the family.
Sheriff Jud Harris' first appointment after the end of the American Civil War is as Sheriff of Twisted River. He has to contend with the ongoing feud between the Heneghans and the Rileys as well as a gang of merciless men, who are murdering folks in the outlying ranches.
The minute Sheriff Webb Dolan led the posse out of town he knew he was in serious trouble. The three murdering outlaws were already hours into the deadly Ute Indian country, and some of Dolan's recruits were unfit to go after them. Worse yet, Dolan realized, his fellow lawman Floyd Aragon had no intention of actually capturing the badmen.
Of what use is a deserted ghost town? None at all unless like the old desert rat, Josh Banks and his young partner, Wage Carson, you have nowhere else to go and are tired of sleeping out with the rattlesnakes. In Hangtown, at least, they would have some shelter from the elements, some water for their weary mounts.
All his life, Drew Hardy had been overshadowed by his brothers, Kerry and Luke. Then, he was jailed for murder. Seven years later, Drew found himself free from the penitentiary rockpile in a surprising twist of fate. But what kind of freedom would await Drew on the outside?
Drifter Hank Anderson planned to go straight when he pinned on the town marshal's badge and tried to tame the wild and rambunctious cattle capital of Abilene. But dark secrets about his outlaw past and shady part in a Civil War massacre are being winkled out of him by the town reporter Jane Cox.
Coleman Black is stumped by a string of murders and robberies near the boom town of Deadwood. When Cole decides to take some inspired advice from a new friend, he has no idea that he is being led directly into the line of fire. Meanwhile, the killer smiles as he silently waits in the cover of timber, his rifle already aimed at Cole's heart.
Royce rides into Jawbone looking for a doctor and finds nothing but trouble. But then how can he expect anything else when he lives by the gun? Royce signs on with land baron Yale Jamerson, hoping for a job that will give his conscience a rest, but Jamerson's plans to dam the river and charge tolls on the road lead the townspeople revolt.
After saloon girl Kitty O'Hara shoots Billy Tranter in self-defence, she flees town in terror of the consequences and heads north out of Texas. Kitty is pursued by Billy's elder brother, Captain Johnnie Tranter of the Texas Rangers, who is determined to exact revenge for Billy's death.
Matt Turner figured even a lawman had the right to take things easier as he got older. But then Duke Coulter arrived in town, a man with ambition and no scruples, with a handful of hired guns to make sure nobody got in his way. If he was going to bring justice back to Jeopardy, he would have to fight on the other side of the law.
Caleb Blood was a man who had seen too much blood-letting. He tried to hide inside a whiskey bottle but his demons, past and present, would not let him alone. All the things he should have cherished were being stripped from his life and he had no option but to take up arms again.
Working alone, Deputy Federal Marshal Fargo Reilly goes south to dispense justice and finds himself involved in a conspiracy involving gun-running and a plot to murder the president of Mexico. Can he stop them from ransacking the nearby town of Perdition a hell-hole where Judge Colt Presides?
Deputy Joe Hammer always gets his man. The men he goes after are vicious thugs and killers. Mostly he brings them in slung over a saddle. Then the bloodshed gets to Joe. He resigns his badge and rides south to Mexico where he hangs up his guns. The peaceful life Joe is seeking is wrecked when the bandit Gomez Farias guns down his friends.
After serving fifteen years for his father's murder, a crime he didn't commit, Glenn Price is looking forward to his first day of freedom. But his enjoyment is short-lived when bounty hunter Randall Nash captures him the moment he steps out of jail. Randall drags Glenn back to Black Rock, whose townsfolk nearly lynched him before.
Deputy Sheriff Matt Cameron was worried as he rode back to town after unsuccessfully hunting rustlers. Lawlessness was on the increase, and Matt had heard that his brother Buck was riding with Eli Kimber's gang. He had warned Buck off years earlier and his brother had dropped out of sight. Now it seemed Buck was back on the crooked trail.
The blood brothers had shed plenty of their own blood during the savage battles of the War. And it had mingled more than once. Afterwards, they rode together, getting into and out of scrapes, watching each other's back, sidekicks and friends. Then that old enemy and infamous disrupter struck gold. Lots of it already tainted with blood.
An unsigned letter addresses to the six who had lynched the Dolon family, spells disaster for Coyote Springs. Wade Henry signs on as marshal to stop the tragedy. But the killer eludes all pursuit as the six begin to die. Will the town be reduced to ashes in a holocaust of retribution? Why is the killer doing this? And who is he?
From the moment their trails first met, Joe Striker, Will Fawcett and Emer Sparrow face danger and trouble. To avoid gun fights and corruption they decide to head east and cross the border into Arizona. But there's no safe haven, and with prices on their
No one needed to tell Sheriff Alec Lawson that thousands of dollars in silver bullion had been stolen from a train on the Northern Colorado Railroad: he was on the train at the time. Now he and his deputies had to search the mountains and mining camps for the thieves.
When their troubled town found itself yet again without a peace officer to enforce the law, the citizens finally agreed on what must be done: forget the cost and risks involved and hire a town-tamer. The famed marshal seemed to meet all their requirements - until the day gun hell erupted again.
Much to Marshal Houseman's displeasure 'Hanging' Judge Parker has sent him and his greenhorn deputy, Zeke Butler, to put paid to a band of raiders who are burning out Indian farmers in the Cherokee Strip in Indian Territory. With the aid of Bear Paw, a newly reformed drunk, the two lawmen face the raiders in a series of shoot-outs.
After Jim Starret was framed by for a robbery he didn't commit, he decided it was time to learn how to shoot... and when he got out of jail, he went looking for the robber who had caused all his woes. But Starret's problems were far from over when he gained his freedom. Somebody from his past still wanted him dead.
Sheriff Jud Harris sets out to find two kidnapped children and finds himself heading deep into Mexico on the trail of white slavers and bandits. With a posse of four trusted men and a Texas Ranger he tracks down the ruthless, deranged slaver, Stanley Cob.
Captain Nathan Talbot lost just about everything in the late Civil War, including his self respect and his honour. But he had begun to think that his days of notoriety were over, his life in a quiet backwater unremarked until an unexpected bequest brought
Dan Chantry, a struggling farmer, is threatened with foreclosure. Charles B Morgan is an unsympathetic and greedy banker who ignores Chantry's honest efforts to clear his debt and turns a deaf ear to his pleas. The meeting between the men turns angry and Chantry storms out of the bank, vowing that should Morgan try to foreclose he will stop him.
As a boy of fourteen, Jake Chalmers saw his parents callously murdered by two drunken cowboys in the street. Now a young man, he is determined to protect himself, even if he has to use his gun to do so. On the run after killing in self-defence, Jake arrives in Sweetwater, a boomtown growing rich on cattle drives.
Jeff Rand, a feared and vengeful gunslinger since his family were murdered, is persuaded by Jim Miller to give up his gunning and join him in peaceful gold-mining. Jeff returns to camp to find Miller murdered and the gold stolen. He rides off in a black mood of revenge. Can Jeff extricate himself?
The Bethesda Falls stage is robbed and Ruth Monroe, the stage depot owner, is being coerced into selling up by local tycoon, Zachary Smith. Meanwhile Daniel McAlister returns from gold prospecting to wed Virginia, the saloon's wheel of fortune operator. Daniel hits a winning streak but is bushwhacked and his winnings stolen.
When Jake Probyn hauled up outside the Circle F ranch, he was looking for work and not trouble. But trouble in the shape of the boss' daughters and the foreman, Ransome, was what he found. Things got worse when the old man died and left the ranch to his daughters. Then there were back shootings and range fires with one daughter going missing.
When Jack Just, weary from long days on the trail, rides into an isolated cattle town on the Texas Panhandle, he discovers that the greedy and powerful Clovis Blacklake has the whole town in his pocket. But when he discovers that Blacklake has cheated the
Chance Benbow thought that at long last he had found a place - and a woman - where he would have peace and quiet and a future. Things went smoothly at first but then it all blew up in his face. When he recovered from the bullet wounds, he saw his future clearly, even though it was clouded by gunsmoke.
Jude Linsey is a young man who is content to live off his rich father's allowance. He ekes out the money in and out of Spooner's Drift by gambling, or fishing and hunting beaver in the high creeks of Shell Mountain. Then the town's bank gets robbed, and Jude is suddenly aware there's a chance to redeem himself with his family and friends.
Hal Grant was not to know that the opening shot of the range war was fired when his father, Harry, was bushwhacked in the street. The wealthy ranchers in Lundon County were determined to take the law into their own hands and rid the county of the sharecroppers, nesters and sodbusters eking out an existence in the marginal lands.
Hank Masters was a good man, a gentle man who wouldn't have hurt a fly, so when he was framed and then hanged his son Flint swore revenge. Now Flint Masters must travel to Jaramillo, where his father's life was taken. He will avenge himself on the lying, cheating town of Jaramillo until he has done justice to his father's memory.
Blue gunsmoke roils as a vicious gang of killers puts the homes of Arizona settlers to the flames. Who is behind the terror attacks? Security man James Slaughter suspects the mayor of San Lorenzo, Joe Hagerty, may be the mastermind for he is buying up the settlers' dispossessed land cheap and fast.
The baby-faced outlaw with the lightning guns and the king of the horses were together that first day when Cody Quinn rode down to the great valley and changed it forever with his sunny smile and deadly.45. Mitch Reece was just a horse rancher but after the young outlaw broke jail, he knew it was his duty to take the high trails in pursuit.
Cole was a good sheriff, may be a mite too lenient at times, but when the chips were down, the town of Barberry fully appreciated his prowess with guns and fists. But he didn't know there was a tragedy in his past that would affect his actions - until a local boy was kidnapped while Cole was supposed to be guarding him.
Steve Ross has been forced to give up the struggle to keep his small ranch going during the Arizona's worst drought in living memory. He intends to leave town in the morning, but events result in him being given an unusual ultimatum. He must face the prospect of hanging for killing a man, or becoming the Deputy Marshal of Craigy Plains.
Lew Clennan returned to Tinkettle Basin with a price on his head, a six-gun at his hip and a grudge. His bushwhacked father and brothers lay in their graves in the basin, where the vicious code of the grass-war now held sway. Pretty soon, the whole basin knew that the six-gun prodigal was back on the scene in pursuit of vengeance.
Johnnie Callum was a half-grown boy when Donovan's riders stamped his parents' homestead flat and sent him running terrified into the night. He ran far and fast over the trackless range that was Donovan's empire and fetched up in the hands of Josh Manders, a brutal sheepherder.
When Tex Scarron, six foot of whipcord and steel, rode home to the Bar X in Arizona, he found Parson Dean and his gang working a lucrative 'protection' racket. Tex's earlier experience fighting hoodlums came in handy, and the gunplay was fast and furious before he rid the territory of the Parson, solved the mystery that lay behind the racket.
Will Hopkirk was all set to live the rest of his life with Diaglito's White Mountain Apaches, along with Sonseray, the Apache woman he married. But Diaglito was devastated when Tobias Hatch cold-bloodedly killed his twelve-year-old son, Choate. Nevertheless, Hophirk persuaded the war chief to use the white man's court to give him justice.
In Massacre At Goliad, tensions mount between Mexican authorities and American newcomers. Revolution is in the air, something Thomas Buckalew welcomes but his brother Joshua fears, since Joshua is in love with a Mexican girl. This book begins where Massacre At Goliad ends - on the battlefield at San Jacinto.
Veteran gunfighter Tom Dix and his pal Dan Shaw get a telegraph message from the remote border town of Gun Fury. Both men know that it must be serious for their friend Wild Bill Hickok to contact them. They saddle up and ride knowing that something perilous is brewing. Death awaits and greets them as soon as they reach Gun Fury.
Sheriff Sam Hammond was nudging fifty, conscious of his years and sometimes wondering just why he'd become a lawman in the first place. Then the troubles really began. First, he narrowly escaped with his life after a moonlight gun battle with a trio of rustlers. Then the abrasive range detective Herb Hopkirk rode in.
Red Denning had his back against a wall. That wall was solid granite, soaring two hundred feet above his head. Before him lay a steep, boulder strewn, talus slope. Arrayed against him more than a dozen men held him pinned down with a steady hail of gunfire. Newly returned from the Civil War, he found no welcome home.
While eking out a precarious livelihood rearing pigs, ex-bank robber Randy Cole has been asked to help a homesteader who is being threatened with eviction. The aging gunfighter is loath once again to take up arms until he learns that the victim is an old side-kick.
Cameron Black figured he was due for some luck. With a posse on his trail and the desert crawling with hostile Indians he finally managed to make it to the isolated army outpost. The trouble was the post was manned only by a skeleton crew of weary soldiers, among them three would-be deserters waiting for a chance to steal the army payroll.