Skye Fargo, a.k.a. the Trailsman, discovers that Noah Tillman, a vicious land baron, has a deadly Fourth of July ritual that involves kidnapping several townspeople, transporting them to a private island, and hunting them down like dogs, and...
After breaking free from a chain gang, the prisoners seek refuge in the desert
Zach Provo saw the dawn of the twentieth century from inside the walls of Yuma's prison. After twenty-eight years on an Arizona chain gang, Provo seizes an...
Good Name—For A Very Bad Town
Bo Creel and Scratch Morton have a lot of experience with the law: they’ve been breaking it most of their lives. But now the drifters are down to their last dime, and they accept the best job they can get in a...
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The trailsman protects a passel of prairie pioneers
Skye Fargo runs across a wagon train being “guarded” by some low-down men in the employ of one Victor Gore—a man who makes his money at others'...
It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd after herd waterbound by high water in the rivers. Our outfit lay over nearly a week on the South Canadian, but we were not alone, for there were five...
Previously published as GUN TRUTH
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Tom Prine figured that a stint as deputy in a backwash town like Claybank would give him a nice rest. Until, in the space of just a few days, arson, kidnapping and murder turn...
Longarm, ordered to escort a beautiful woman convicted of murder to prison, thinks he will have an easy time of it, until he finds himself in love and determined to prove her somewhat questionable...
Having lost a wife to violence and a son to retribution, onetime Texas sheriff Daniel Shaye has brought what remains of his shattered family -- two grown boys fiercely devoted to their father and justice -- to Vengeance Creek, Arizona. In a...
Bob Zane, the hero of most of these stories, is a seasoned prospector who not only knows the western deserts, but also knows the criminal mind and the laws that govern survival in this beautiful, dangerous land where the search for gold never ends....