“Death of a Gunfighter” Walt Street is on a stagecoach bound for Escalante, Colorado, where he hopes to reunite with his wife after two years of living without violence at her request. But when fellow passenger Ben Rawlins recognizes him as a man with a bounty on his head, a struggle ensues and Rawlins ends up dead. Walt switches identities and all is well until he finds out that Rawlins has inherited a small ranch that the neighboring Gunhammer Ranch wants. He can’t sell because he’s not Rawlins, but the Gunhammer crew thinks he just needs some strong-armed persuasion. “Lawless Town” Sloan Hewitt was just a passing stranger. All he wanted was to sell his wagonload of buffalo hides, get a drink, a bath, and a good night’s sleep. Hewitt didn’t know about the town’s dark desires. As a former soldier, he’d had his fill of killing. But when three gunmen ambush, rob, and leave him for dead, Hewitt sees just how hungry the town is for blood. Soon after Sloan Hewitt takes care of the sidewinders who’d bushwhacked him, someone decided to pin a marshal’s badge on him. He didn’t want the job, but someone had to teach this town a lesson, and he’s just the man to give this place a dose of its own lead poisoning.
Two classic novels by the Spur Award-winning author--powerful tales of law and order in the Old West--are together in this special volume. Includes "Blood on the Grass" and "Slipshod.
Sheriff Sam Chance discovers that the woman he hopes to marry and her young son have become hostages to a group of outlaws planning to hijack the profits of a gun running operation that is supplying rifles for Pancho Villa. He faces the almost impossible task of trying to save them alone and unaided.
The Tincup cattle ranch, located in the high ranges of the Colorado storm country near the Utah border, is heading for big trouble as it enters the storm season.
Gunsmoke westerns are a range of novels by well-known and sometimes new authors. The common thread running through the books is the focus on cowboys and life during the days of the Wild West.
The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned. Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form, the Western has followed two paths: one populist - what Time magazine famously billed 'the American Morality Play' - capable of taking many points of view, from red to redneck, but always populist, with a sentimental attachment to the misfit; the other literary - eschewing heroism, debunking with unsettling candour many of the myths of the West. It can sometimes be difficult to draw a sure line between the two forms, but both are represented in this outstanding collection which includes stories by Rick Bass, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Larry McMurtry, Mari Sandoz, Christopher Tilghman, and Mark Twain, among many others.
This trio of short novels presents award-winning author Lewis B. Patten at his exciting best. In the title story, Lew Harvey was forced to leave home because of a shooting incident. Now a letter from his former girlfriend has summoned him back. His parents are about to be driven off their spread and they need his help, but his father hasn't forgiven Lew...and more gun trouble may be on the way. In Summer Kill, a man seemingly without enemies is murdered on a nighttime trail ride, and it falls to his two sons to track down the killer. And Rustler's Run tells the story of young Burt Norden, who has been doing a man's job running the N Bar Ranch since his father's death. But now he may really have to prove himself. Rustlers have swept into the area and there's a confrontation brewing with a local hardcase. Patten creates Western adventure so real you can almost feel the trail dust, and he was never better than in these classic tales of action and emotion.
Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Historical Novel. Victory or Death! General George Armstrong Custer was determined to find one or the other in the valley of the Little Big Horn - and so he led two hundred and twenty-five men of the 7th Cavalry into one of the bloodiest massacres in American history. In The Red Sabbath, told through the eyes of a hard-bitten civilian scout, Spur Award-winning author Lewis B. Patten vividly recreates the dramatic events that led up to the violent clash of arms on that blood-soaked Sabbath.
Double the action, double the value. Here are two classic Westerns for one low price--a $7.98 value for only $4.99. In The Law in Cottonwood, a Kansas marshal braces for a stampede of rowdy cattle drovers. In Prodigal Gunfighter, a gunslinger comes home to Texas, triggering apprehension over his next victim.
Casey Day is determined to prove his innocence and capture the outlaws who robbed the stage, and Johnny Toothaker, a rancher, is caught in the middle of a violent feud between rival ranches.
Tom Garth had left his father's house in anger three years ago. Now he was fleeing Texas for home. Behind him was a determined posse of over a dozen men. Tom's father, a county sherriff, would believe him--would believe that his son was not a cold-blooded murderer.
When Clay Holley's wife and Tom Denton's wife and son are captured by hostile Indians, the two men embark on a relentless pursuit of the savages. The chase leads to Tom Denton's death, and results in Clay and Tom's brother, Frank, joining Custer's campaign against the Indians at the Washita. The campaign offers the last glimmer of hope for rescuing the captives.
When a young girl's lie leads to the lynching of an innocent Indian, the sheriff of Graneros has trouble keeping the town from being destroyed by the desperate men who had murdered the Indian and by the Apaches who had escaped from a near-by reservation and were determined to avenge the Indian's death.
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