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Traveling to Dodge City to win the heart of the woman he loves, it wasn't long before Anthony Castracane had outgunned, out-knifed, and out-ridden most of its vilest renegades. But could he win the beautiful Muriel?

Pierre Ryder has been forged by the sternest of frontier Jesuits for the hard life of a missionary priest in the frozen wastes of the Far North. Into this life of gentleness, a thunderbolt descends in the form of a letter from his father, long thought dead, who lies dying of a bullet wound. Ignoring the pleas of the good priests, Pierre rides at once to avenge his father, into a life and a country far from all he has ever known. When he meets Jackqueline...

Only two things in this world were worth anything to young Everard Winton--his Uncle Clay and the mighty Red Pacer, the wildest, most untamable horse in the West. Then in one black hour, they were both gone. Ever knew he had to get them both back. He'd do whatever it took, even if it cost his own life.

In "The Gold King Turns His Back" young Miriam returns to her father's ranch determined to learn the business, but she discovers she has a lot to learn when she makes the statement that she will marry any man who can bring in Gold King, the wild mustang. In "The Three Crosses" a practical joke gets out of hand and turns an earnest cowboy into a hard-riding yahoo. "The Abandoned Outlaw" is a story about the life-long rivalry between two men and what...

Within this volume, you'll meet Skinny, a young teen who can outrun, outthink, and outmaneuver any man in the West...until he runs into lazy Tom. The second novella continues the adventures of Sleeper, who's determined to repay the man who saved his life--no matter what the cost. And the title story tells of the tumultuous relationship between a father and his wayward son. When Snoozer Mell returns home after years of gambling and hard living, he...

In Range Jester, Barry Home, once a free-spirited cowboy, now an ex-convict, returns to the small town of Loomis. His return is scarcely welcome one, least of all by the rancher whose testimony was vital in securing Barrys conviction. Slow Bill is the story of young Jim Legrange, who feels he can never live up to the success of his father, a millionaire rancher. He leaves home for an abandoned gold rush town, where he runs into Jack Rooney. Rooney,...

Paul Torridon rides the fabulous steed Ashur on his way to Fort Kendry with his guide, plainsman Roger Lincoln, in The Man from the Sky. When Roger disappears one morning, Paul knows only that finding Fort Kendry by himself will be almost impossible -- and that's if he manages to survive on the empty plains. Then he comes upon ailing Cheyenne warrior Standing Bull sprawled on a small island in a dry gulch . . . On his deathbed, gunman Hank Peyton...