"Boothill's Ferryman" begins with a minor irritation. Link Tolliver, the new owner of Cobb's Ferry, has tripled the rates for the ferry and his speech and behavior, fueled by heavy drinking, offend the men and their families who must use the ferry. Sheriff Jack Masters gives Tolliver a warning, which he ignores. The situation escalates when Tolliver shoots a rancher and the sheriff is forced to take action. In "The Vermillion Kid," the Kid thought...

"In The Dawn Rider drifter John Randolph comes to the aid of a widow and her thirteen-year-old daughter who are struggling to maintain their ranch. In Lightning Strike a trail boss seeks to avoid disaster after one of his drovers kills an unarmed Indian"--

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.

He came along that lonely outlaw trail the locals called the Tumbleweed Trail, because anyone who chose to ride through all that emptiness and desolation had to have a very good reason to avoid civilization. This grim, silent stranger was deadly -- and just the type of man to buck the powers that had ruled the land for over twenty years!

Mark Lane and Reg Bachelor are partners, working as ranch hands in Wyoming for the warm part of the year, then heading south before winter sets in. In the fall of 1935 they set out as usual, riding into northern Arizona until they encounter a Mormon enclave, where the ranchers hire them to capture the wild mustangs who compete with their cattle for graze and water.Mustanging, however, is not easy work: it requires patience, cunning and grit. Heading...

Young Toby Lincoln was an orphan and runaway who'd been pushed around a lot by life. He spent two hellish years in a Colorado prison, falsely accused of horse stealing. Once he was released he swore he'd never go back to jail again and set out for the New Mexico Territory to make a new start. Yet it wasn't long before his dreams of a peaceful life were shattered by a Colorado prison guard and a federal marshal with an extradition order. But Toby wasn't...

A legendary cache of hidden gold attracts suspicion and controversy.

Long Bow Ranch was huge, even by standards of landholdings west of the Missouri River. The Long Bow riders couldn't patrol the entire ranch -- it was just too big -- and they were losing cattle in the Lost River Country to the Arapaho. When ranch owner old Jim Welsh had had enough, he went directly to the Arapaho and over four parlays, came to an agreement -- the Arapaho would take no more than ten cattle a year. And that arrangement was still in...

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...

After working a number of years in Montana as a rangeman, Cuff Lockwood wants to move on to a warmer climate and sets his direction toward New Mexico where he encounters Shelly Harrison, a woman he finds hard to forget.