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1) Long Storm
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HIS FAMOUS NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR-THE BLOODY STRUGGLE FOR THE RICHES OF THE WILD NORTHWEST AND THE DESPERATE FIGHT OF A MAN AND WOMAN TO HOLD IT FOR THE UNION.IN THE CIVIL WAR the Copperheads almost took over the state of Oregon. Big Adam Musick, river-boat pilot, went out to stop them. He caught Ringrose, the Copperhead leader, holed up in a dark warehouse beside the flooding river. "I came to get you, Ringrose," Musick said. "God damn you!" Ringrose...
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FRIEND AGAINST FRIEND…AND ONE MUST DIE!
HEAD OF THE MOUNTAIN is a masterful story of two men, best friends, who must ride to a bloody confrontation on a cold and starless night. At the Head of the Mountain, their trails would cross, and for one of them the trail would end…
Hugh Rawson was tired as hell of running. He'd come back to the remote Oregon Territory for three good reasons. He was bent on squaring off with the killer who'd used him...
3) Deep West
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A steer should only have one brand. When it's got two, that's rustlin'. And rustlin' is the biggest kind of trouble round about Granite Canyon...unless you're talking dead! When a range detective from the Cattleman's Association turns up slung across the back of his horse like a piece of dead meat with a couple of bullet holes in him, Jim Benbow figures he's got trouble. Benbow reckons Cash Gore is behind both the rustlin' and the murder. And rumor...
4) Trail Smoke
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THE ECHOES OF A BULLET IN THE NIGHT MEANT BUCK SURRATT MUST KILL OR BE KILLED…FIGHT TO THE FINISH. They dropped their gun belts to fight it out another way. Buck Surratt knew his adversary had the strength of a rock-crusher. There was immense power in those ropy shoulder muscles, the girth of his neck, those thick wrists and fists, giving his arms the look of heavy-knobbed clubs. And yet Surratt goaded him, and so Bill Head threw himself across...
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A LUSTY, ROARING NOVEL ABOUT ONE MAN'S RELENTLESS BATTLE TO GET THE RAILROAD THROUGH
This is the story of FRANK PEACE, TROUBLE SHOOTER for the Union Pacific Railroad, handpicked as the only man in the West who could get the road across a thousand miles of rugged desert and mountains, through fighting Indian territory, past the organized bands of outlaws hired to kill him, and in the face of powerful interests determined to smash him. His business...
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A master storyteller in the great tradition of Zane Grey and Louis L'AmourMAN IN THE SADDLE-He fought his way back from hell-alone!The combine drove Owen Merritt from his land, branding him a coward and a killer while forcing him into hiding. But they had made one drastic, fatal mistake: they had forgotten to kill him!HIGH TRAILS AND FAST HORSESIt was the gray first-dawn, and Owen Merritt was off the trail, halted on the edge of timber. Ahead of him...
7) Sundown Jim
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THE ONLY WAY DEPUTY JIM MAJORS COULD CLEAN UP RESERVATION WAS TO DRAW FIRST-AND KEEP SHOOTING.
The angular man in the middle of the square stirred in his tracks and began to talk. "Listen. You're lookin' for Ed Dale. I'm Dale."
Majors said, "All right. You're the man I want."
"You can come and get me. I'll be right here."
"No," said Majors. "Drop your belt and walk this way."
"No chance, mister. No chance."
Time narrowed down and the moments were...
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An epic novel of the conflict between cattlemen and ruthless landgrabbers for a range empireJim Chaffee rode into Roaring Horse slowly. It was growing dark and Woolfridge's men were staked out everywhere-along the streets, behind the stores and saloons, in the back alleys. Their orders were to kill Chaffee, to gun him down, shoot him in the back. And the town of Roaring Horse waited quietly, helplessly, for the death of the only man who could save...
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THE LAW OF LEAD IN THE WESTThe Broken Bit boys shot Sheriff Ben Borders after the nesters and law-abiders had re-elected him. Old Ben lay dying on the courthouse steps with Jim Keene looking down at him. You stayin'? said Ben. I'll be staying, said Jim. Well, when you get to the other side of the hill-remember this, son-the only thing you'll find there is just what you brought with you. Jim Keene had ridden a thousand miles to get to Cloud Valley...
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SHE BOUGHT HER WAY INTO A RANGE WAR!
"You're a wild man!"
Lilly Tenant drew Tom Sebastian's face gently to hers "You're strong," she whispered.
"Your kisses hurt…but I don't care…"
Lilly had come to Nevada to escape from civilization-and suddenly she found herself in love with a violent, untamed Westerner.
Tom owned the great Barrier ranch. He was fiercely loyal to the responsibilities of his cattle empire, and he exacted the same loyalty...
11) Action by Night
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ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER..."Maybe I didn't make myself plain to you," Tracy Coleman said slowly. He flung the table aside and sent it crashing to the floor. George Pairvent rose and kicked away the chair; his hand went to his gun. Coleman came at him. He twisted Pairvent's arm, pinning it back until he yelled and the gun dropped. Coleman knocked it aside with his foot, and dealt Pairvent a blow that sent him reeling against the bunks. He stepped back....
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WAR DRUMS ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER1875-throbbing war drums and distant signal fires told of deadly danger. The Sioux were gathering, moving in...That year Kern Shafter joined the sun-scorched Seventh Cavalry, a proud and bitter regiment led by an officer named Custer. That year Shafter met a woman he had to have-and a man he had to kill! Here is Ernest Haycox at his best, with an unforgettable drama of violence and high courage during the battle for...
13) Whispering Range
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When ranchers of Sundown formed a vigilante group to stamp out rustling, owner of the D Slash outfit, Dave Denver, refused to join. He wanted the rustling stopped as much as anyone, but there was no real evidence pointing to the Redmain gang. Besides, Denver hated mob rule. But when Denver's best friend was killed in an outlaw trap, he led the D Slash to a war that ended up in Sundown where Denver and his men, Colts flaming in their fists, smashed...
14) The Wild Bunch
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BLOOD JUSTICE. Frank Goodnight set out to track down Theo McSween-the man who had run off with his pretty sister and left her high and dry. He had been on McSween's trail for weeks when he rode into Sherman City, Wyoming, a tough town at the base of the Owlhom hills, on a hunch the varmint was hidin' up there with the Wild Bunch, a gang of outlaws Who been preying on prideful ranchers. While Goodnight sampled the rotgut at the local saloon, the Wild...
15) Trail Town
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LAW AND ORDER WERE HIS GAME. GUNS AND GUTS HIS WAY. River Bend stood, tough and dusty, at the end of a thousand-mile cattle trail. For the men who rode the long, hard Texas cattle drives, it was a rootin'-tootin' trail town where they could quench their thirst for whiskey, women and a rousing fight. But Sheriff Dan Mitchell wasn't worried about rowdy cowpokes-the man with the star was as quick with his gun as he was with his fists...and his wits....
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