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The story of a terrible gunfighter with a strange history and Columbine Bellounds, a lost child brought up by a stern old rancher who expects her to marry his rascally son out of gratitude.

Orphaned by her father's suicide, Nellie and her brother, Jackson, take jobs in the western town of Rita Blanca, where deputy sheriff Jackson is forced to confront six gunfighter brothers, and telegrapher Nellie pursues a romance with Buffalo Bill.

Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the halfbreed's life, forging a bond no one could ever break. As years passed, a legend grew of the breed and the white man who rode together--and pulled iron faster than anyone in the West... Having saved Sweet Apple, Texas, from disaster, Matt and Sam decide to stay and help the new marshal break in his spurs--not to mention squeeze in a well-deserved vacation...

Contains four Western stories by Louis L'Amour, telling of gold strikes, gunfights, killers, and posse chases. In book form for the first time, the texts have been restored to the manner in which they first appeared in their magazine publications.

Silas Durfee had come up against a lot of outlaws as a Texas Ranger, but he had never encountered one as cold and cruel as Spot Lester. There was a man who would as soon slit a throat as swat a fly. Hating Durfee for foiling one of his plans, Lester schemed and plotted and dreamed of the day he'd kill Durfee. Finally that day came. He had Durfee right where he wanted him -- trapped in Torture Canyon where the heat was enough to turn a man's brain...

The secret of Kansas Gulch: The year is 1859 in Colorado Territory. Only Jay Meade knows the secret of Kansas Gulch. If anyone at Poverty Gulch discovers Kansas Gulch, there will be a rush to the new diggings and Meade will have to share the gold with all of the other miners. Look behind every hill: Carmody Steele has homesteaded right in the middle of what two big ranchers in the area regard as open range. Men from the two ranches warn Steele that...

Alex Longmire earned his reputation for being fast with a gun at a very early age. Though he never hired out his talent for pay, his reputation served to isolate him from everyone. Most knew not to cross Alex, but Rod Zellman ignored the warnings. When an attack by Rod Zellman against Alex Longmire predictably ends with Zellman's death, Alex and his friend Bud Purvis are pursued by Zellman's father and his hired guns for over 700 miles. And when the...