Stories included:“The Woman from Cougar Creek”“The Price of Pride”“The Devil and Old Man Gillis”“Shooting for a Fall”“It’s Hell to Be a Hero”“The Tongue-Tied Cowboy”“From Hell to Leadville”“The Deputy with a Past”“Judge Peterson’s Colt Law”“The Breaking of Sam McKay”“Fugitive from the Boothill Brigade”“The Man Ten Feet Tall”

Black MikeSam Cassidy comes home to find himself in a series of tense confrontations. His father expects Sam to work for him at the local bank, and Sheriff Ben Faraday, for whom Sam worked the previous summer as deputy, is suffering from a terminal disease and wants Sam to become a deputy again. "Black Mike" Nickels wants to expand his use of public land and bring in more sheep, backed by guns. The Cattlemen's Association has vowed to stop Black Mike, but Sam's decision to...

The summer warpath began in late spring 1876 and was one laid out under the command of General George Crook, perhaps the most experienced Indian fighter in the United States Army at that time. Among other officers under Crook’s command was the daring and resourceful Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry. The purpose of the campaign was to round up the wild tribes of the Cheyennes and Sioux and place them on reservations.Walt Staley is a drifter, a man who w...

Hell on high red wheels!Cotton Drennan had packed a good many smoky years into a short span of time. For him, death lurked in shadowy alleys, and he watched them carefully always. He owed his life to that care—and to a fast and accurate gun.The Broken Ring Ranch was the biggest on the range and getting bigger—with the help of a gun-heavy crew. And nobody but Cotton Drennan seemed to give a damn about the injustice of Broken Ring's big grab. Cotton had been through range war...

Small ranchers in Harmony, Oregon, are up against it with the price of cattle down and Skull Ranch, owned by a syndicate, trying to buy them out. Dan Riley spends a month trying to find a bank to help them, but he fails. When the editor of The Clarion is shot, the ranchers blame Black Mike Sand, the manager of Skull, in spite of the circumstances of the shooting. As pressure mounts, Riley is determined to find out who is really in charge of the syndicate, and the only man willing ...

Murdo Morgan returned to Paradise Valley, Oregon, expecting trouble. Sixteen years earlier, his father had planned to help hundreds of families settle in the valley. Not wanting to lose their spread, local ranchers had murdered Morgan's brothers and driven his family away.Now Morgan owned half the valley, but he'd had to borrow money from ruthless bankers to buy the land. With the ranchers gunning to stop him from selling his acres to new settlers, and the bankers waiting to forecl...

In the title story, Murdo Morgan left Paradise Valley sixteen years ago, after his brothers had been killed at the hand of the Turkey Track outfit. One year later, his father died a broken and defeated man. Broad Clancy, owner of the Turkey Track, has remained the controlling force in this area of high desert in Oregon, considering all the land to be open range, including the six-mile strip on both sides of the old wagon road which belongs to Cascade and Paradise Land Company. He fears tha...

ROCKY MOUNTAIN JUSTICECole Weston owned all the land around Saddle Rock, Colorado, and figured his money made him the law of the land. To his way of thinking, nesters and rustlers deserved the same fate-lynching from the nearest tree. The only man brave enough to stand up to Weston's brand of frontier justice was Deputy Price Regan. With no more backup than his shadow, Regan would fight for what he knew was right-even if it meant gunning down every last one of Weston's hired killer...

GUN-SHYBig Jim Perrin was the richest cattle boss Oregon had ever known. With the help of frontier hard cases like Dan Nathan, he got everything he wanted without ever drawing a gun. But Nathan’s loyalties were divided between his land-hungry employer and the nesters who lost their spreads to Perrin. As much as he dreaded it, Dan knew that the greedier Perrin became, the sooner he'd have to turn h is six-shooter on the man he’d once called a friend.Classic Western Adventure byWAYNE D. OVER...

Bill Worden had been sheriff of Grant County for eleven years, yet now he was faced with the toughest twenty-four hours of his life.He had always succeeded in keeping things quiet between the ranchers and the farmers—but that was before he had a prisoner to hang: Ed Lake, a convicted murderer.Now the ranchers were plotting to set Lake free, and the farmers were talking about lynching him—and it was up to Worden to keep both sides from carrying out their plans... if he could...

"It's all so easy," Billy was thinking. "So nice and easy the way they're playing it. Taking their time to get me out of here. Nobody making trouble. No guns, nothing. Not a bad way to grab a buck... not bad at all... good sun...food... lie in the sun... take a little nap."...Which was just what they L were waiting for.Here is Wayne Overholser's story of a kid who learned to be a man too soon, and never learned how to run.

“This ranch is mine—you got to kill me to get it.”All his life, Rod Devers had wanted only one thing—his own spread.To get it, he hired his gun to the highest bidder. When he had it he hung up his gun.Then Egan Valley exploded into range war. But Rod refused to take either side until he stood alone, deserted by friends as well as the girl he loved.Then once again he strapped on his gun and went out to take on both sides—knowing that one or the other would ge...