Willis Lander was once the T-Bar ranch's best bronc buster. Then came the day when a stallion as black as pitch and as mean as a rattler shattered his knee. Unable to perform the duties required of a cowboy, Willis took the only job he felt capable of handling-minding the line shack forty miles from the ranch-and secluded himself from the pity of his peers in the Wyoming wilderness. Now, the T-Bar is being sold, leaving Willis to wonder whether the...

Four men--Jess Donner, a Rebel and Southern gentleman; Steve Ellsworth, a ladies man with a foul temper; Stu Wilkens, a Yankee; and Heck Myers, a teller of tall tales--find their friendship sorely tested by a dance hall girl and a gang of outlaws. The four friends have traveled to Dodge City to rest their saddle-weary bodies, but trouble erupts between them and some less than reputable characters over the attentions of a dance hall girl. If the boys...

Arlo Wells and Dallas Holt are two ex-cowpunchers who've hit a patch of bad luck - until a dying friend tells them of a lost gold mine. They jump at the chance to get the fortune. But Arlo and Dallas aren't the only ones who know about the mine - and their streak of bad luck is about to turn into a fight for survival ...

The story of a town without laws, where hundreds of hungry miners arrive to claim the beef they have paid for, follows these courageous men as they must take justice into their own hands, or prepare themselves to die.

"A KILLER BORN When it comes to taking lives, Lucius Stark is just about the meanest mongrel who ever aimed a gun in west Texas. For him, killing means making money, and if the price is right, he'll do the job. But even the hardest of men has a soft spot.... A KILLER BETRAYED when Stark grows too fond of a woman he is hired to kill in a range war, his client shows his displeasure by shooting him in the back. Stark is saved by the Butcher family-the...

"England Dan Rutledge and his partner John Cooley have worked their claim for a year and are barely eking out a living. When Cooley shows up with a map of the abandoned Irish Lord Mine he drunkenly bought off a shady cowboy, England Dan is sure it's a complete fraud. Then England Dan gets a good look at the map. Maybe they have the key to a fortune after all! When an infamous bank robber shows up looking for this mysterious map, England Dan and his...