Arch Bowman raped and murdered his way across the West to become the stuff of legend. But when he survived a near-fatal shooting in Colfax, Colorado, he decided to make the most of his new lease of life and finally settle a long-standing piece of unfinished business …But that didn't mean Bowman was about to go soft. Before he was through, innocent men would die in legendary numbers, and Bowman would make sure that life was hell for a mild-mannered farmer named Walt Canaday....

They said that Chase Donovan had been a Texas Ranger for too long, that he'd become a law unto himself and that they weren't prepared to put up with his maverick, gun-fast ways any longer. So they took away his badge and kicked him out of the battalion and, almost before he knew it, he'd turned into a full-time drunk. Then a wealthy business man offered to bankroll his very own fight against the lawless. There was only one catch. Chase had to mend his wicked ways and go back to being the k...

It started with a slaughter and ended with a massacre, and by the finish of it Sam Judge and Matt Dury had seen enough bloodshed to last them a lifetime. But the gun-fast men from Texas had signed on to help an army officer get his little girl back from the Apache renegades who'd kidnapped her, and once they gave their word, nothing would stop them from seeing a job through.Still, the odds against the success of their mission were almost as high as the odds against their survival. ...

They rode into Austin Springs stirrup to stirrup, six men with guns in their belts and blood in their eyes. The minute Town Marshal Sam Judge clapped eyes on them he pegged them as trouble. He was right, too, because by sunset Death had called and the blood of innocents had been spilled in the town's quiet and dusty streets.Almost before he knew it, Sam—once a celebrated town-tamer whom Ned Buntline himself had called 'The Pistol Prince'—found himself embarking on a vengeance hunt....

Two cold-blooded killers and one stormy night of murder … together they resulted in a posse of three ill-matched man-hunters.But each of them had his own reasons for riding into Redbird Valley after the killers. For Marshal Cord it wasn't only duty, it was personal. Charlie Pearson had something to prove – and not only to himself. As for Jack Sumlock … well, he tagged along because one of the killers was his own grandson.Up in the isolated high country, all three had to fac...

For months now it had been Roddy Bruce-Morgan's dream to ride north of the border and make his fortune up in the uncharted wilderness men called Alaska. But unlike the prospectors already flooding into the so-called 'Great Land', the young Scotsman had no intention of panning for gold."Oh no," he told professional fighting man Carter O'Brien the day he hired him. "Quite the contrary. I plan to take a commodity far more valuable than that into Alaska, and once there, to sel...

Carter O'Brien's gun is for hire, but only when the job – and the money – are right. He's been everything from lawman to bounty hawk and he's as tough as they come.Right now he's riding shotgun on an expedition led by an old friend from his army days. Their goal – to find a lost canyon of silver down in Mexico. But the way is blocked by gunmen working for a greedy Mexican businessman and a ghost from O'Brien's past. To survive, O'Brien must kill or be killed.As the expediti...

Thomas Howard of Missouri came out of nowhere, one foggy night, to rescue Countess Elaina Montague from rape and robbery. He was in England, he said, to find his brother, who had disappeared. To repay him, the beautiful Countess offered to enlist her friend, Sherlock Holmes, to help in the search. Despite investigating a rash of audacious jewel-thefts, and already spending altogether too much time at the music-hall, the Great Detective felt there was more to the mysterious Mr Howard, and a...

They were tough and courageous men who drove Union Pacific's railroad construction forward. They came from Germany, Ireland, Sweden and many other countries besides. They were led by General Jack Casement, the head of railroad construction. And Casement had his work cut out for him when the crew reached Julesburg.Julesburg, the so-called "hell on wheels", was full of shady characters, whores, gamblers and swindlers who all wanted to take the railroad workers' hard-earned money away...

Tim Dennison died a slow, agonizing death, but because he was a sheep man in a valley that was controlled by two powerful cattle-barons, no one cared if his killers got away with murder.But the veteran town-tamer, Sam Judge, and his gun-swift young partner, Matt Dury, did care. And when they tangled with a bunch of masked gunmen in a shooting spree that left another two men dead, it became kind of personal.However, Dennison's death was just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath t...

King Creek was a rough-and-ready mining town set right in the heart of the Nevada goldfields. There was no law to speak of except Stover's Law – and it was ruthlessly enforced by one greedy woman, her three callous sons and a dozen hired gunmen.The situation was quickly going from bad to worse. A failed assassination attempt had left the only man capable of defying the freebooters crippled for life, and his wife was at her wits' end. The Stovers were systematically fleecing the tow...

It was probably going to be the last great wagon train ever to go up the Oregon Trail ... but right now the settlers were stranded in the middle of nowhere and they needed someone to get them safely through to the Promised Land.Sam Judge, the legendary town-tamer, had captained a few trains in his day, but he had no particular hankering to relive those wild times all over again. Those settlers still had hundreds of miles to go before they reached their destination, and the way ahea...