Three western stories by Louis L'Amour.

When a horsethief killed someone very close to the men of the Muleshoe cow outfit, differences were forgotten as Muleshoe went after a horsethief who was now also a murderer.

When Donald Cameron and his Cirlce C outfit moved into the Rio Seco Valley, a hot welcome was awaiting them.

When an eastbound freight train was a halted by dynamite near Clarion City, Texas, Gregory Quist, the famous railroad detective, faced one of the most mystifying jobs of his eventful career.

After a sweltering summer and bitter fall of shoveling sand, Hungarian immigrant Lazlo Kusik's luck finally found him when he stumbled upon a thick vein of quartz webbed with strands of gleaming gold.

Chief Bog-o-nay-ge-shig, of the Chippewa, had to complained to Washington that his people were being cheated out of their timberland. Craig Morgan, a known Indian rights advocate, was the perfect man to evaluate Chief Bog's charges.

Three masked men were shooting from their saddles. Don Ygnacio Sandoval was on the seat of his buckboard with his hands up and a bandit reaching for his wallet, when Johnnie Cameron came to his aid.

Jim Hatfield knew he was up against a trio of killers whose cruelty was unmatched in the State of Texas--and who left no man alive who stood in their way.

Rainbow Ripley and Grumpy Gibbs were hot on the trail of a million-dollar train robbery. The two partners found themselves caught up in a raging torrent of double-cross and adventure...

In the climactic engagement between two river packets on the Missouri, Horn and his implacable enemy, Jack Wade, fight to the finish in a brawling struggle.

When Sam Cochran found out that Denker had planned on a special job--kidnapping the wife of the biggest rancher in the county--he knew he had to break it up before his brother Mitch got into something really over his head.

Leadville was the wildest boomtown in the West. Ruthless, untouchable, Quint Vining and his brothers murdered as they pleased, and bought their own acquittal. But they couldn't buy gambler Cape Wallace.

By the time grizzled old MIke Cassidy had finished educating the wide-eyed-kid, Butch Cassidy had ridden with the Wild Bunch, the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, and the Rustlers of Robebrs Roost.

Dan Shea came to New Mexico Territory looking to achieve the American dream. When he meets a wealthy rancher with a beautiful daughter, Dan thinks he has it made.

To the ranchers' aid comes Ben Anthony. His girl, Bess, has gotten herself engaged to Harry Odell, who is suspected of collaborating with the rustlers.

There was one more trip left to the bank before the Rawley ranch would be paid up. But a couple of sidewindin' bushwackers gunned down old Rawley and took the money.

When Captain Jack Price of the Union Army arrives out West, he finds evidence that deadly attacks on stagecoach stations between Kansas and Colorado are the work of Confederate soldiers disguised as Indians.

Neil Sterret, who had never given much evidence of strength of character, decided to marry, go West, and make a man of himself.He rather reversed the proper order of doing such things, but won out in spite of it.

The Rio Kid faced a deadly riddle. Suddenly, without warning, Chief Wolfkiller and his peaceable Navahos had gone on a rampage, raiding and looting across the New Mexican range.

Old John Webb reigned the range like a veritable overlord. Getting the herd across the river wasn’t his job, though. That task fell to his trail boss, Austin Brant, to figure out.

The wild Colorado was Ben Roman’s ancient enemy, a foe he fought and hated and yet deeply respected. To Slim Lacey, the town girl who wanted him, Ben Roman was as wild and unpredictable as the river itself.

Astride his gelding, Deputy Ben Houston made a solitary silhouette riding the stark plains of Kansas. Ahead of him in the vast country rode a gang of murderous outlaws.

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.

New Mexico, 1908. It is 27 years after the alleged death of Billy the Kid and rumors abound that he is still alive.

When Jeff Lantry met Marcella Blair, life became more than merely getting ahead, it became decency, honor and fair play. But there was a fly in Jeff’s ointment--a beautiful fly.

Hunted through the Arizona Territory by Apaches who take to the warpath after he murders their Chief, Donovan rides into a small horse ranch that’s the perfect place for a long siege.

Nash Canfield was a liar, a drunkard, and a cheat, and when he was murdered even the sheriff didn’t work too hard to solve the case. Plenty of people wanted Canfield dead. So Greg Quist, hardboiled detective, had to re-open the case with a blazing gun.

Visitors were rare in Grasshopper, Arizona, and men who lived by the gun unnerved everyone. Even the deputy marshall from the adjoining town was interested in Anvil Wilson.

A penniless brawler couldn’t stand up to the power of rich ranchers, and the Chase brothers would do whatever it took to defeat Lee Porfilo--even frame him for murder.

Old Man Racker pushed Harve Holley around like a work horse. Racker kept the boy ignorant of the fact that Harve’s pa, Hack Holley, had been a desperado. Racker was being paid to keep Harve’s interests safe; the hidden loot and the Double H, Harve’s rightful claims.

King Malory’s entry into San Lucas was an unusual if not impressive one. He left the stagecoach for the jail, accused of cattle-rustling--but it wasn’t long before he had broken out of captivity.

Fen Yont wanted it all--all the cattle, all the range, the biggest part of Arizona Territory. One man stood in his way: Rufe Rogers.

A smooth gambler named Hansinger ran the town of Cheyenne with a combination of slick cunning and savage gunslinging. A sadistic killer named Brick Lowndes did his bidding and shared the spoils. Both of them figured they were ready to take on Bob Pryor...

Yancey was the eighth to go out in gunsmoke as murder multiplied in the gold-rush town of Rock Creek. Maybe Yancey knew who was fingering the lucky prospectors in the diggin’s at Rustlers’ Bend.

To Cole Dagget, eight hundred dollars meant a lot of hard hours in the saddle--and enough to return to Texas and settle down. So when the money was stolen from him in a small-town holdup, there was no way he was going to let the robbers just ride off with it.

Dr. Elliot Carey had heard all kinds of tales of the Wild West. But after he saves the life of a train robber and helps him escape, Carey’s life changes forever.

Alan Craig has returned to Coffin Gap with his medical degree. But Jada MacQueen’s mining has polluted the waterways and Alan has his hands full trying to head off a typhoid epidemic--which means cleaning up the mine.

For ten years Brock and Pat saved money to buy a ranch. Now Pat is dead--and Brock is sure it was murder. He comes to Colorado looking for answers and finds a pack of trouble besides.

Ann Carruthers had no idea what searching for her brother in New Mexico Territory would mean. Ann didn’t realize how much danger she was in until the son of a Comanche chief offered one hundred horses for her.

Frontiersman, fur trapper, Army Scout and trusted friend of the Indian, no-one embodied the adventure and history of the American wilderness more than Kit Carson.

An outstanding collection of short novels and stories by one of the masters of the Western story.

Sergeant Tom Flynn of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police suspects that a youth was killed by Mach de Fer, a vicious wolf dog.

Five classic stories from Peter Dawson. Including Vengeance in Shadow Cañon, The Hang-Tree Rebellion, Long Gone, Dark Riders of Doom, and Lost Homestead.

Detective Fred Casey and his men have been charged with stopping the flow of opium into San Francisco, but the major source of the drug keeps eluding them.

Denver City in the early days of gold discoveries is the setting for The Golden Magnet. Cole Estes is on his way there to work for Mike Forrest, who has the mail and stagecoach franchises for the boomtown.

Frank Allard had only one good friend growing up. And when that friend, a deputy sheriff, is shot in the back, Allard vows to hunt down the killer.

An acclaimed collection of short stories of survival and courage on the American Frontier.

A group known as the Whitecaps use violence to brutally clear a vast estate known as the Amarillo Grant of ‘squatters’--homesteaders and ranchers trying to make lives for themselves.

Blue Mitchell soon finds out there’s more going on at the Broken S Ranch along the Cimarron than breaking horses. Land feuds and a failed mine have made Albert Buckminster murderous with rage--and if Blue gets in the way, it makes no difference to him. It’s a good thing Blue Mitchell’s no stranger to trouble, because this time it’s coming his way in spades.

It seems easy enough for James Fox to convince rancher Amos McRae that for $60,000 the mineral spring on his land could be converted into a spa that would attract a railroad into Stick City. When things go wrong, Fox is in a situation that requires all his wits to come out alive. Two deaths threaten to expose his identity--a turn of events that could put him at the wrong end of a hangman’s noose.

They rode in darkly off the back trails, the badges of their professions thonged tightly against their thighs and gleaming with oil...They were men who slapped leather for a living and loved their work, and when they threw their irons into the Border Desert War it meant only one thing. There’d be more than one riderless bronc roaming the sage before many days.

Tom McBride was the gun-slinging foreman for the Arrowhead Ranch. No man could be expected to use lead on his own kin--but his sister’s husband was spearheading a fight against Arrowhead. McBride was sure that Arrowhead would never stoop to dirty work--but if that was so, who had shot one of the neighboring ranchers, burned out another and dynamited a third? He had to find out fast--because both sides were looking at him.

Wyatt Kirk’s success as a bounty hunter had earned him the title of the meanest gun in Texas. He just figgered that the thieving cowards he had no trouble tracking down could use a little rough handling. But now every young hooraw with a gun wanted to outshoot the legend--and that made Kirk nervous. So he headed back to the family ranch to see whether he could stay out of the heat for a while.

A gent who played a lone hand would never make a big killing. So The Whisperer planned a spree of daring robberies that would make him a legend, and for a gang, he recruited a group of ornery outlaws. All The Whisperer wanted was one chance to strike it rich – all it would take to bring him down was one man who got too greedy.

A collection of interconnected short stories by Ernest Haycox. The area around Burnt Creek, a small crossroads town in central Oregon, is a region Haycox knew well, and the stories are set in the early days of the 20th century. The remaining stories depict the Americans locked in a battle for survival with their British overlords. Red Knives is set in the Revolutionary War when the British outfitted their Indian allies with redhandled scalping knives with which they were to kill Americans on sight.

The Virginia and Truckee was more mountain goat than railroad. In the 21 miles between the desert sink at Carson City and the town at the end of the rail, it climbed 1,600’. To Ken Murdrock, used to the sturdy firmness of the plains in Oregon, the journey up the mountain was a nightmare. But it was just the beginning of what would happen to him in the gold and silver madness of Virginia City.

1897--the last great gold rush. Leaving his federal post in Montana, US Deputy Marshall Patrick Kelly becomes partner in an enterprise where Studdsworth P. Blackmore arranges to have his Alhambra casino transported to Dawson City so the gold stampeders can spend their new wealth. With spring thaw setting in on the waterways of the North, the race is on to be the first at the headwaters of the Yukon.

Jim Martin and his family live in a plains region where drought is a way of life. When Jim hears of an old-timer in Rock Springs who is able to conjure water, he seeks him out. Water is worth more than gold in this community and when Jim learns that the source of the water is a mysterious tree, Jim takes a shoot back to his own ranch...

Included in this collection of stories featuring the Rawhide Kid, one of T. T. Flynn’s most famous and popular characters, is the original Rawhide Kid story. The classic tales of his adventures in this collection stand as some of the finest Western stories ever produced.

The Lost Dutchman was the most fabled gold mine of the 19th century. Jacob Walzer struck gold and hundreds of hopefuls have combed the mountains to find it. The White Chip tells of an unlikely caravan of a banker, miner, two merchants, a butcher and a smuggler, who find the exhausted mine and a sealed-off entrance to its rich lode. The wealth is there for the taking--smack in the middle of a volcano that smokes and rattles at will.

Bill Tenn opened his eyes and stared at the armed man bending over him. "What’s wrong?" he asked. "We’ve found Buck Flynn, is what’s wrong," the man replied. Someone was trying to pin a killing on him...How Tenn cleared himself of the murder charged against him makes a fast-moving and action-packed story of the untamed West.

Included in this collection of novellas is Legend of a Badman which tells of the colourful character of Clay Allison. Ray Hogan looks beyond the rowdy reputation to portray a man of integrity, willing to put his life on the line for what he believes in. Was Allison a western Robin Hood, defending the poor and the weak? Or was he a vicious killer who gunned down more than 20 men? Ray Hogan presents the truth--not the myth, but the man.

In the Wyoming town of Derby, Cuff Lockwood has met a pretty widow, Lady Barlow, owner of the Barlow ranch. The ranch is in need of a ramrod but Lockwood refuses the job, but it looks like Fate doesn’t want Lockwood to leave town. Sometimes life leads down trails you never expected. Some mighty dangerous trails.

Marcel Dupré is no ordinary man on the run. He’s carrying a manuscript that threatens the French government, and agents have been sent to ensure that the manuscript – and Marcel – are never seen again. Jay McGraw must get Marcel and his precious package safely across the West. But that’s easier said than done when you’re being hounded by a pack of cut-throats who will stop at nothing to achieve their bloody goal.

Samantha Cameron escapes from Saquarra but the next day is ‘rescued’ by a travelling merchant, Zachariah Kane, who carries her in his wagon back to Saquarra! Kane has returned the woman known as Mississippi Pike’s ‘whore’, and learns that the town is under siege. With the help of a Mexican bandit and the local sheriff, Kane decides to rally the town in a fight for its independence.

When Buel Patchen built the big dam in the valley, he made Alamos a desert town and ruined the Bar Chain Ranch. Whether or not the killing of Jim Chaine was mixed up in this disaster to his ranch was something that his son, Ross, meant to find out. To investigate the mystery was to invite trouble, and Ross had to fight his way clear of many difficulties and dangers, with the help of good friends--American and Mexican--that he had made along the way.

Here are three novellas--tales of adventure and intrigue, action and emotion--all set in the sweeping landscape of the Old West. In the title story, a man’s attempt to buy back the ranch that was once his father’s draws him into a web of danger. The Mustanger presents a quest for a stolen herd of wild horses that leads straight back to a former friend. And The Magnificent Gringo sets a story of discovery against the dramatic backdrop of Spanish Califormia in 1854.

On a spring morning in San Jacinto, Kiowa and Comanche raiders massacred Silas Stone’s wife and two of his sons and took Stone’s grandchildren with them. After ten years, Stone and his agents found the boys. But they could only hope and pray that Sarai was still alive. Then, 25 years after her capture, Sarai Stone returned to the white world...but could she ever truly come home?

Buck Duane’s father was a gunfighter who died by the gun and, in accepting a drunken bully’s challenge, Duane himself was forced into the life of an outlaw. He roamed the dark trails of southwestern Texas, living in outlaw camps, until he met the one woman who could help him overcome his past--a girl named Jennie Lee.

A short novel and ten stories, all of which capture Olsen at his best. Lone Hand takes the theme of the gunfighter fleeing from his past. Jason’s Journal is a ghost story of passion set on the Arizona frontier. And rarely has Olsen reached the level of tension that he achieves in the masterful Five Minutes. Each tale in this collection is a fine example of Western storytelling at its peak.

Bob Hogarth was determined to own his own ranch, to become a man of substance, and found his chance in Wyoming. But there were folks who weren’t too eager to see Hogarth succeed, other ranchers with their own plans for the future, and a mysterious rustler on a barefoot horse. Nobody told Hogarth his dreams would come easy...but he knew they were worth fighting for.

When three hundred head of cattle disappeared from the Tomahawk brand in Pioneer Valley, Mack’s suspicions of the truth earned him threats on his life and a price on his head. Mack never felt so alone in his life, but if he wanted to get out of this alive, he’d need all the friends he could get.