In the Spur Award-winning title story, a Pinkerton detective, a couple on the run, a wanted man, and a traveling salesman with mysterious wares all converge on the banks of Crucifixion River to take shelter from an impending...
Jack Drumm, a dandified Englishman making The Grand Tour, finds himself stranded with his valet in the middle of the Arizona desert. His struggle to survive against the savage elements and raiding Apaches becomes a struggle to conquer, to prove...
Dan Sweet was a tall man, a strong man, and most important, a man who had taken his own measure and lived by it. Now he had promised Ben Gaultt to drive 4000 head of beef across the blazing Arizona desert - Indian country. Sweet was not the man to...
Max Brand was one of the pen names used by Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944). Faust was an American fiction author best known for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. In the 1910's he began selling stories to pulp fiction...
Ex-lawman Jack Shaw turned bad fast by going on a crime spree. Now Longarm has him cornered in a deserted cabin. Or does he? Seems Jack has all the water and ammo. Someone's gotta give, and the lesser man will be cooking the Devil's breakfast for...
Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of emigrants and Western...
A penniless Russian baron has made his way west by putting his pedigreed killing practices to work, but in the eyes of the law, all men are equal, and Decker the bounty hunter is going to make sure the Baron faces American...
Gold is the pay dirt in all these rip-roaring western stories, more of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Whispering Sands series with their unique desert setting. Again the master storyteller features his rugged western hero, the philosophical prospector Bob...