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”

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

He crossed the high country with his gun loose and readyBirth of a KillerEighteen-year-old Lane Garth was still little more than a boy the morning Jake Rawlings and his gang rode up to the Garth ranch.Four hours later Lane's father lay in a bloody heap in the ranch yard, one of Rawlings’ slugs in his back. Lane's mother huddled sobbing in the bedroom, clutching the shredded remains of her dress around her to cover her shame. And Lane Garth had suddenly become a man....

"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.

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHORMoving across the country like two great claws, rails of shining steel carved their way into the heart of Oregon's vast frontier. The seemingly unstoppable rail lines could go no further when they reached the land of Hanna Racine. She was a beautiful woman, easy to love, but impossible to buy. She controls an empire of brutish men who fight for her love and land, but Hanna chooses to be with a man who belongs to another woman. Soon Hanna finds herself in a ...

“I NEVER GOT ALONG WITH PLOW-PUSHERS!”Adam Powers was fed up with Crow City homesteaders whittling down his range, so he led some armed hotheads on a raid of fear that ended in bloodshed. The people of Crow City branded Adam a murderer. When the law set him free, he was kidnapped by vengeance-seekers who sought their own terrible justice. Sam Powers had good reasons to hate his father bitterly, but he swore he would stand alone and save Adam from the vicious avengers.

When Kim Logan is hired by Peg Cody to be her snake stomper, he thinks he's helping a nice lady stay out of harm's way. He thinks he's protecting her from the resident badboy, Hank Dunning, who is trying to force Peg's ranch into forfeiture so he could grab it for a song and be the most powerful landowner in the territory.Logan loves Peg and would do anything for her. But before he knows it he's in jail for a murder he didn't commit, and Peg and her supposed enemy, Dunning, are eye...

"SELL OUT AND GET OUT—OR I'LL KILL EVERY MOTHER'S SON OF YOU!"Jeff Ardell was a peaceful man and a friend of Big Ben Shortt. But when Shortt got land-greedy and brought in the merciless hired guns to murder the shirt-tail ranchers, Ardell strapped on his Colt 44 and led the homesteaders into WAR IN SANDOVAL COUNTY.A HARD-HITTING NOVEL OF RANGE WARFARE ON THE HIGH PRAIRE