It's December 1890. A Texas Ranger named Big Ben Conyers has a deal with a Scottish-born, Wyoming cattleman named Duff MacCallister. Along with Smoke and Matt Jensen, the party bears down on Dodge, Kansas, to make a cattle drive back to Fort Worth. But before they can get out of Dodge, guns go off and a rich man's son is killed. Soon the drive turns into a deadly pursuit, then a staggering series of clashes with Indians and rustlers and a blizzard....

"When Conrad Browning's wife disappears in the untamed frontier, Conrad finds himself assuming the identity of his famous gunslinging father, Frank Morgan, to find her. But his hopes of rescuing Rebel are swiftly shattered--and now he's burning for vengeance, the old-fashioned way. So he fakes his own death and starts calling himself The Loner, becoming the deadliest gunfighter this side of his own father--ready to settle the score in blood and...

In the years before the Demon Wars the world has become a dangerous place, with humans menaced by goblins and bloodthirsty Powries. The monk Bran Dynard returns from a mission to a far land wanting to share the religious truths he has learned, but must contend with a changed world.

Sixkiller has come to Ringgold, Wyoming, on the trail of Bart Skillern, a vicious murderer hes been carefully stalking for weeks. But before Sixkiller can strike, Skillern takes a job with the towns duly elected mayor, a politician so corrupt that the only way to get near him is by being even more corrupt. So Sixkiller takes a job as a hired gun, and sets out to destroy the mayors gang from inside out. Sixkillers carefully masked plan is just about...

Things aren't looking good for half-white, half-Indian Yakima Henry. Badly injured in an ambush, he managed to gun down the son of the most powerful family this side of the Missouri River. He doesn't know who'll get to him first: the gunslingers or the wolves. Against her better judgment, Aubrey Coffin drags the dangerous-looking hombre home. Now Yakima's fighting spirit must grow stronger, because an innocent woman is about to be caught in the cross-fire....

This is the original collection of three short novels by Max Brand that have never been published in book form before. The One-Way Trail finds two men meeting on a trail in the mountains. The trail is so narrow that neither man's horse can be turned around or aside or go backwards, so the two men must determine whish is to be pushed aside to certain death. The Fotgotten treasure shows what can happen when an ancient Kentucky feid is moved to the open...

Born and bred in the Texas Pandhandle town of Comanche Crossing, William "Wild Bill" Longley gunned down a dozen of its men in cold blood before he got around to the sheriff and deputy--so he could take over the job himself. Then he found the perfect sidekick in a vicious career criminal named Booker Tate. With his remorseless heart set on a beautiful young woman, Wild Bill and Booker take the whole town hostage until the young lady agrees to marry...

From one of the West's greatest living storytellers, winner of numerous awards, including the Spur, the Golden Saddleman, and the Western Heritage Award, here is Elmer Kelton's magnificent new novel of the wildcat West Texas oil boom of the 1920s. It used to be that the worst crime in Caprock was moonshining or lying about your Saturday night date on Sunday morning-until someone struck oil. Now the scent of the stuff has brought every dreamer, drifter,...

Kirby, later Smoke, Jensen has just earned his first paying job as a deputy U.S. marshal for the Colorado Territory and is sent to the lawless town of Hermitage. There, he finds a sheriff too cowardly to face the six-gun of outlaw leader Clell Dawson. Young Smoke feels no such fear, and takes Dawson down fast. Then the real fight begins. Braving bullets, blood, and treachery to face down the most dangerous outlaw in Colorado Territory, Smoke will...