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...

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHORHe rode across the West, a hard-muscled, long-boned man, with a face burned to Indian bronze by sun and wind. His buckskin shirt was darkened by dirt and age, his broad-brimmed black hat had two bullet holes in the crown. He carried a knife in a scabbard on his left side, a .45 Colt in a holster on his right side, and kept his Winchester in the boot of his Mexican leather saddle. He was Rafe Dolan, and his name was a legend. Maybe too much of a legend. Ther...

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...

“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.

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...

The mighty novel of the frontier West, and the handful of men and women who stood alone against the last great Indian uprising.AFTER CUSTER’S MASSACRE... the vulnerable frontier was wide-open. The triumphant Sioux saw nothing between them and the soft, fear-crazed white settlements except a few men and women holed up at the Hog Ranch—a group of cowards, drifters and deserters...They had to forget the hatreds among them, they had to stand alone against the whole Siou...

Wayne D. Overholser, winner of three Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, weaves a magic spell in this story with his consistent skill in presenting vibrant characters and his uncommon sensitivity to the depths of human personality.

What is it that pushes a man, cold-bloodedly and with his eyes wide open, into a spot where he knows he's buying into trouble — bad trouble, even to the point of losing his life?Dan Quaid was no different from most men—yet at forty he left a safe, comfortable farm in settled country, to push out to a rawhide town and a mountain ranch that everyone in town warned him he'd never live to keep.But Dan had the kind of guts that settled the West—he didn't know when to quit in the...

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHORTHIS WAS A DEBT HE'D SETTLE HIS OWN WAY—WITH THE BUSINESS END OF A .44What Mark Morgan learned about his past made him set his sights for Broken Bow. He'd be looking for the Burkes. Twenty years before, they'd gunned his father down, seized his land, and built an empire of their own.Morgan knew he was headed for a showdown. The Burke empire was still intact, but there was also the Hall gang—and the Dorn boys. Mean as weasels, the Dorns would...

Three-time Spur Award Winning Author Wayne D. Overholser“STAY ON THE SIDE OF THE BIG MEN."That was what Pat Keenan told his son as he lay dying, and young Matt Keenan vowed to follow his father's advice. But when he returned to his boyhood home in New Mexico, he ran into a hail of bullets fired by the company he had hoped to work for and local settlers the company wanted to evict. Caught in the cross fire, Keenan had to decide which meant more: a promise to a dead man, or t...

A WEALTHY CATTLEMAN TURNS A PEACEFUL LAND INTO A FLAMING VALLEY OF DEATHBULLETS SPEAK"I'm a fighting man, Strang...bullets are my suit. All I see around here is land, too much land for one man. I aim to fix it so these settlers can get what's coming to them."When Matt Strang, big, powerful, and courageous bought up Sage Valley for a cattle grazing area, he didn't care about a shirt-tail settler named Poe. Bitter, resentful, thirsting for revenge, seething with hatre...