One of the top twenty-five westerns of all time: an action-packed tale about a range war in a violent town-and the honest foreman who risks his life to keep the peace. Phil Evarts is dead, and the Hatchet Range is up for grabs. That's 70,000 acres of prime turf just waiting for the man rich enough to buy it . . . or the gunman crazy enough to kill for it. Every schemer in town has his eyes on Hatchet, and Bide Mariner leads the charge. An unscrupulous...

The US Army and a brutal Apache chief prepare for an epic showdown in the New Mexico desert in this novel from a master storyteller of the West. Ward Kinsman has done all he can to escape civilization, spending the summer in a desert mountain range, deep in Apache territory, sifting for gold and praying he never sees another settler again. After a month of backbreaking work, he sees a trail of dust in the distance, and knows a white man has come to...

A hard-riding cowboy teams up with a stubborn farm girl to save her family's freight business in this adventure from a master storyteller of the West. When her brother finds himself locked in a vicious battle with corrupt kingpin Craig Armin for control of the freight business in a silver town called Piute, Celia Wallace sells the family farm and goes west to help him. She's just short of her destination when bandits attack her stagecoach, pressing...

From a master storyteller of the Old West: A ferocious tale of murder, loyalty, and revenge set in a rough-and-tumble frontier town. Tony Braden's first sin was being an Englishman in the American West. His second was being rich enough to try and make a go of ranching. Those two faults were enough to whet the appetites of the fine citizens of Indian Bend, who proceeded to hornswoggle, ridicule, and outright rob the uncomprehending Brit for an outrageous...

Hired to find a killer, a drifter rides into a deadly family feud, in this action-packed novel from an award-winning storyteller of the West. For $10,000, Tip Woodring must ride into a frontier town full of murderers and find one particular killer. The deal-offered by Rig Holman, a saloon owner who liked the way Woodring knocked out a nasty drunk in front of his bar-could make him a fortune . . . or cost him his life.   Last spring, a prospector...

Deputy Royal Ballou was in New Mexico when the Hall brothers shot Sheriff Tibbetts dead in Jacob's Well. By the time he returned , Curly Hall was wearing the sheriff's badge. Deputy Ballou was set on bringing law and order back to Jacob's Well, which was going to be a difficult task.

Dave Borthen knew the odds and he didn't like them. No man would. On one side, him, On the other side, the outfit that controlled the territory - with their men, their guns, their ruthless power. But Dave Borthen swallowed hard and dug in his heels and waited. They knew where he was. They knew the odds, too. But maybe - just maybe - somebody was in for a bang-up surprise.

A man tries to protect his brother from the two vengeful relatives of an unwed pregnant girl.