Tracy Chavis rode with caution, one hand never far from his gun. Behind him stretched a four-year trail blazed by gunflame and the guilt of an unfulfilled mission — to recover the five thousand dollars robbed from Chainlink's boss Jim Boyce. Ahead glowed the welcoming lights of Spanish Flat. Then a group of riders cut across the lights of the town and suddenly the guns opened up. But as he rode in after his attackers had disappeared he knew that somehow his coming had been foreshadowed. Bu...

Returning to the town of Stinking Springs, Arizona, ex-mine owner Jason Hazard meets with an unexpected cold reception. Vic Olsen – an old enemy of his – is now the new mine owner and hates Hazard with a vengeance. Added to his trouble the town seems cursed: other miners are suffering; cave-ins and payroll robberies and when a foreman goes missing, Hazard is quickly put in the frame for all the troubles. He'll need all the remaining friends he has as hell breaks loose in Stinking Springs.

After breaking free from a chain gang, the prisoners seek refuge in the desertZach Provo saw the dawn of the twentieth century from inside the walls of Yuma's prison. After twenty-eight years on an Arizona chain gang, Provo seizes an opportunity to escape. He smashes one guard's face with a rock, takes his shotgun, and blows the other guard away. Soon the twenty-eight men of the chain gang are on the loose. Provo sends most of them into the desert to hide, holding ...

A California politician goes to Mexico to make himself kingThe Sonorans hire Henry Crabb to protect them from Apaches. In the lawless days that followed the Mexican-American War, bands of Indians roamed the countryside, preying on the hard-working peasants of northern Mexico. Desperate for help, a farming community offers Crabb land to establish a colony in exchange for a year's protection from the marauders. The Sonorans do not recognize that Crabb—a Californian w...

A rollicking adventure starring a young Theodore RooseveltIn 1884, Teddy Roosevelt's political career is dead in the water. A New York state assemblyman with eyes on national office, he finds his ambitions thwarted just months after his wife and infant daughter pass away. Frustrated by politics, he retires to the American West to ride, ranch, and hunt buffalo in the Dakota Badlands. Nobody tells him that the buffalo are gone.He arrives in Dakota a greenhorn...

An aged Western showman reflects over his long and colorful careerFew bother to separate the myth of Colonel Hugh Cardiff from his real life. The nation knows him as a sharpshooter, buffalo hunter, moving pictures pioneer, and one-time proprietor of the greatest Wild West show the nation has ever seen. Some of the stories are true, some exaggerated, and some rank among the wildest of tall tales. But for a man who has lived like Colonel Cardiff, the facts trump the ...

Eleven soldiers attempt to hold a river crossing in the middle of the desertThe Colorado River's most vital point for American settlement is the ferryboat at Yuma Crossing. When the gold rush begins, a gang of white outlaws seizes the ferry from the local Yuma tribesmen, who have operated the crossing for decades. The US Army rousts the outlaws, but the high command decides to keep the crossing rather than return it to the Yuma. No one considers how badly the Yumas...

It was a hot, summer in Spanish Flat, and Marshal Jeremy Six figured on the usual amount of trouble: liqored-up miners, brawls between farmers and cowhands, and a couple of scraps over girls or cards.Until Ben Sarasen rode into town...Something ugly was brewing and the mood of the town reflected it. Where Sarasen walked, so did trouble. And yet Jeremy couldn't help respecting the man … almost liking him. But he knew that Oakley Madden's bunch were ripe to start something, a...

Logan was first to leave. Sick of living on the run, hiding his face in public, he dropped out, met a girl, and got married ... and then there were three.Then Bob got killed in a gun battle ... and then there were two.Joe, the youngest, took off on his own, searching for trouble and building a reputation as a vicious killer.Which left Emmett, the oldest. He had turned outlaw with his brothers when there seemed to be no other way ... but he had never killed. He couldn't...

Dan Sweet was a tall man, a strong man, and most important, a man who had taken his own measure and lived by it. Now he had promised Ben Gaultt to drive four thousand head of beef across the blazing Arizona desert—Indian country. Sweet was not the man to make an idle promise.But trouble was brewing; there were too many people who didn't want that beef to market. Nate Ringabaugh gave Sweet his first warning, and Ringabaugh was a man who commanded respect. Miles Littlejack had grimly ...

In the Wild West, a desperate gang of outlaws targets a gold shipmentDuring the Indian Wars, Boag and Wilstach rode with the Tenth Cavalry, the most feared outfit ever to gallop over the American plains. But now that things are relatively peaceful, the two soldiers wander the land, cloaking their once-spotless uniforms with dust. To be men again requires money, and they have no skills but riding, shooting, and waving sabers. Luckily, those are just the kind of men ...

A crack team of American specialists makes a deadly run into North VietnamCliffs hang over the rail bridge that crosses the Sang Chu River, protecting the vital North Vietnamese supply line from attack by American bombers. It's only accessible by a parachute drop that would put American GIs deep behind enemy lines. No point on the Ho Chi Minh Trail is more crucial to the Viet Cong war effort, and nowhere is more tightly guarded. Colonel David Tyreen has just sent a ...