Jackson Miggs was a loner who wintered under the Ute Peak in his log cabin. He tolerated the cowman Hyatt Tolman who used the high meadows to graze his herd, but when a strage herd of Durham cattle move into the grazing land, Miggs knows there's going to be trouble.

Kit Butler and Lige Turner remember the days when they had been welcome at an Indian fire, squatting at a powwow and gorging on half-cooked buffalo hump. But times had changed. Too many whites were moving West and the Indians were embarked on an attempt to throw back the tide. With the fur trade gone, Kit and Lige find themselves guiding a wagon train of thirty wagons with one hundred sixty people -- only seventy-seven were men -- west from Independence,...

Five days ago, the blowing up of the express office safe in Burnt Timbers, Montana, had gone off without a hitch for the four members of the Buck Streeter gang, netting them $28,000. Since then they have taken refuge in an abandoned shack on a plateau above the town of Brigham in northern Wyoming. With its bank and express office across the street from each other and lacking any telegraph for communication, Brigham seems like the perfect place to...

The massacre at Fort Mims is what spurred young Davy Crockett to leave his family and become a volunteer scout in the military campaign between American militias and the Creek Indians. It was while serving in this capacity that Crockett earned his reputation as a first-rate scout, which added to his already established reputation as a crack shot. Like many volunteers serving in militias, Crockett also had to concern himself with protecting his wife,...

From Texas to Montana, the Old West knew a breed of men that is now legendary. Lauran Paine's apprenticeship as a Western writer came about through the years he spent in the livestock trade, rodeos and motion pictures, where he often worked as an extra.

Young Frank Tennant learns much about human nature as he flees the evil intentions of his Uncle Charles, who has hired a gunman to kill Frank. The world is not all bad however, as he discovers when Jorge Medina risks his own and his daughter's life to rescue Frank.

Ellis Bowman's horse is stolen during the night and the next morning Ellis finds himself framed for bank robbery by a man who, according to the local sheriff, has been dead for several years.

The Cumberland Transportation Company and the SM cattle outfit had been feuding over a right-of-way for years, but until someone deliberately set fire to SM's autumn feed there didn't appear to be much reason to expect a real range war. After that, CTC sent down Leo Bishop, the son of a company executive. And before Leo fairly got acquainted around the countryside, he was in a fight up to his neck with the big SM cow outfit - which was owned and operated...

When a freighter shot and killed Jorge Espanol and later wounded his brother Hernando, George Washington Mars, a gunsmith, decided to customize a Colt revolver that would give an edge to a man with a slower, draw. Now Hernando and George have created a subterfuge to draw their freighter back into a confrontation. The new gun soon earned its name as sudden death became the constant companion of the "killer gun."

He had phony Wanted posters nailed up, and offered rewards for the men he wanted out of his way. When Carleton Whitsett came into town from the northern cow country, he had a scheme to take over all of Cheyenne Valley. But trouble commenced when Sheriff John Wheaton stumbled on to the scam, and set out to protect the innocent from Whitsett's I bounty hunters. The Burcham ranch was Whitsett's first target, and before the smoke cleared, many a man would...