Tall, serious faced Mitt Stone runs away from the ranch and takes a freighting job from Uvalde to the West. He is determined to make money and meet up with his buddy Bob Guthrie on the road. At Fort Davis he meets Lydia Lorrain but Mitt fails the mother's test.He and Bob find a niche: buying mules cheap and selling them to the stage and freight line, but the Civil War has destroyed currency and the draft looms. Mitt's brother Sam converts their paper money to gold. With their pal M...

Mitt Stone would never again see his four brothers. He stares at a telegram telling him that the oldest, Sam, had been fatally shot. He meets the remaining three in San Antonio. One is well off, one is a hot head with a gun, and one is a devout Christian determined to save his brothers. None has a clue where to start.The year is 1890.Their journey, by train and two-horse surrey, to Junction City, Texas, brings them into contact with William J. Burns, a Secret Service agent,...

PHANTOM HERDAlex Mentrier is 18 when he leaves the Concho. He knows only that he was born to a Mexican woman in Castroville who claimed that his father was French. He intends to find out.His first attempt at adulthood placed him with thieves. He has not fully overcome the tendency. A man in the Castro Colony claims Alex is his son and suggests that they drive a herd of unbranded wild cattle to the Kansas market. They lack six essentials: cattle, horses, cowboys, equipment, ex...

LITTLE STONE MOUNTAINBetrayed in love twenty-seven years earlier Hailey (Hail) Stone is satisfied to indulge his hobbies, live the good life and enjoy the company of his current friend Mattie. At age forty-eight his life is set, his retirement vested, and his comfort complete. No other soul of the old Stone family still lives. When he goes, it's the end of the line.As Hail reminisces about a family story of pre-civil war gold coins hidden on the old ranch south of Uvalde, Tex...

Bob Guthrie, a successful trail driver, first appears in Denzel Holmes' Mitt Stone series of novels as Mitt's chief accomplice. Matt Altmann enters manhood in Holmes' epic novel Texas Victory as the son of Prince Carl. The two meet on the West Texas Concho River.Col. Mackenzie is poised to put an end to the threat from free roaming Comanche using Fort Concho as a hub. Despite their best efforts Matt and Bob find themselves embroiled in the errupting conflict.Matt is determi...

Curly Smith was a coward when he fled the Civil War. After his encounter with Mitt Stone on the distant Rio Grande there is not a yellow bone in his body. He returns to become a deputy sheriff. His arrest of murderer Angel Ranigan makes him a hero but touches off a wave of violence like no other. Old South sympathizers try to take Texas back in time. Curly, son of a plantation owner,is caught in the middle.A chance meeting with his old friend Mitt Stone gives him the resolve needed...

When the spontaneous nature of Mitt Stone takes hold nothing can stop him. Up to now he had known his enemy and carried forth with amazing success. Friends made it possible. Did he still have them? This time he will enter a world he does not understand.A Texas Ranger who hates Mitt gives him good advice. Good, if he intends to pursue a phantom, the vicious killer of of his six-year-old niece. His earlier nature takes over. When Bob Guthrie, Gilberto Saliz, and M.L. Carter join Mitt...

The stories of Louis L’Amour are built around the dramatic moments when men and women cast their fears, doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge into the unknown—into split-second decisions with life-and-death consequences. Nowhere is that more evident than in this quintessential collection of stories set on the American frontier. Here L’Amour takes us across a bold, beautifully rendered landscape where old scores haunt new lives, the wrong choice leaves unwitting victims, and strangers ma...

Having quit Civil War devastated Texas, the Storm family – father, mother, three sons, two daughters – found their promised land in Colorado. But Colorado was then the American West's furthest frontier, rich in fertile land but dangerously short on law and order. There were wild animals and Indians – but wildest of all were the desperadoes on the lookout for easy pickings …Colorado's Three Creeks country was a hard land indeed, where the strong took whatever they wanted to satisfy t...

Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes. . . . Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards. . . . Strong-willed señoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit. . . . Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson. Gritty, tough, and unflinchingly authentic, here is the West as it really was: a land where for every frie...

Collected for the first time in a single book are six of L’Amour’s finest Western stories. The texts have been restored according to how they first appeared in their initial publication in magazines.Jim Sandifer knows he’ll lose his job at the B Bar Ranch as well as the girl he’s sweet on when he prevents a raid by some B Bar men on the Katrischen Spread in “The Turkeyfeather Riders.”In “Four Card Draw,” Allen Ring wins a small ranch—until the town marshal shows up and tell...

The Storm family continues their epic ranch saga in the sixth novel in the series. Mart Storm cantered through the long New Mexico evening in a land where a man expects guitar music and the smiles of beautiful, hot-blooded women.They came for him in the half-light. One of them knocked him out of the saddle with a single shot, then another fired point-blank to blow his brains out.But the light was bad. The bullet no more than ripped along the parting in his hair, creasing his skull. The dev...