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...

The killing: Arch Dorrance kills Rudy Coulter after he finds him in bed with his wife. Dorrance is acquitted and the Coulter family objects. When Dorrance is found hanging from a tree the next morning, Guy Coulter, father of the clan, is the prime suspect. Shadow of the gun: After leaving town for three years after shooting a rancher, Curt McVey returns to town. McVey feels he is owed something by the community for having rid it of a range hog. Now...

Marshall August Cragg had stopped in Broken Butte only to wait out the heat wave, but the townspeople were sure he had come to investigate the lynchings which had occured there several years before, and they were determined to thwart him.

A group of cattlemen known as the Cheyenne Pool become involved in a dramatic struggle with ranchers over the right to use the open range.

The Salt Creek Valley in Colorado Territory is the setting for "The Guns in Greasewood Valley", the story of brothers Tom and Dayton Roark, who share a small ranch. When Tom falls prey to malicious gossip about his wife, he responds with violence that escalates from a personal conflict to a crisis on the range. In the title story, Dan Iles is sent by his father to Ox-Yoke Ranch to see how much of their water John Mallory is diverting through his floodgate....

This trio of short novels presents award-winning author Lewis B. Patten at his exciting best. In the title story, Lew Harvey was forced to leave home because of a shooting incident. Now a letter from his former girlfriend has summoned him back. His parents are about to be driven off their spread and they need his help, but his father hasn't forgiven Lew...and more gun trouble may be on the way. In "Summer Kill" a man seemingly without enemies is murdered...

When Judas Wiley came up for his murder trial before Judge Jonas Fuller, everyone knew he was guilty, but since the Wiley clan has threatened all the jurors as well as the Judge's daughter, it appeared that he would go free.

Dead line: Bill Roebling has been give twelve hours to get off his ranch by Henry McCambridge, owner of the MC Bar. McCambridge is backed by Cheyenne Robbins, who is attracted to Roeblings wife, and if he has it his way, Roebling wont be alive at the end of the twelve hours. Montana gunfighter: Short of money to make his next mortgage payment, Roan Childress agrees to undertake a job for Colonel Houston. But the situation is far more complicated than...

"No one was left. No one but Mark. They'd killed his family for the bounty that was paid for the scalp of an Apache. The bounty hunters knew the government couldn't tell the scalp of a dark-haired person from the scalp of an Apache. So with hate in his heart and a deadly gun at his side, Mark was on a quest to find the killer -- and when he did, he would have no mercy. In the dim light the man looked like the rider who had mutilated his family and...

A Spur Award-winning AuthorJed Holley had staked a claim on Shavano Creek. There were only a few homesteaders there, but that was a few too many for men like the Custis brothers. And they were mean enough and tough enough to do something about it. Suddenly Jed was dead. So when Carl Holley came into town to track down his brother's killer the word spread like wildfire. Would they dare to kill him too?