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Old Dick Clayton and his niece Hope were in big trouble. The local land baron, bully-boy Aldo Latimer, wanted their ranch - at any cost. But what made the old Clayton place worth so much to him? Why was he willing to try every dirty trick in the book to get it? All Dick and Hope knew was that they needed protection... and when Buck Halliday rode in, they figured they'd found it. Buck wasn't looking for gun-work right then, but he liked the pair. So...

Rancher's daughter Rebecca Donnell is marked for death after recognizing one of the men robbing the stage she is travelling on. Her father knows only that she has vanished off the face of the earth, so he hires Shane Preston and Jonah Jones to find her - or her body. The two gunfighters ride into the wilderness and discover the remains of the missing stagecoach. Nearby are three shallow graves. Their quest should have ended there. But the lean gunfighter...

Buck Halliday fled the town of Pardoo after being falsely accused of murder. In his haste to avoid a lynching, he strayed from the main trail and ended up in a desolate valley with a bad reputation. Plenty of men had ridden into it, but none had ever returned. It wasn't long before Halliday discovered why. Almost before he knew it, he was fighting for his life against a vicious clan led by a madman named Masterson. His only hope of salvation lay with...

One hundred factory-new repeating rifles had gone missing - and if they fell into the wrong hands, the west would run red with blood. The job of finding them and returning them to the army fell to Shane Preston and Jonah Jones. Along the way, they collected a rag-tag bunch of helpers, from a Mormon missionary to a disgraced sheriff. And even when they located the rifles, getting them back to Fort Dumas wasn't going to be easy. The Mexican outlaw Pedro...

A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.

"The Headless Ranger: that was the finish the outlaws planned for Slade -- blow his head off with a fiendishly clever booby trap. Then they could go back to their profitable campaign of terror, murder and theft, bleeding the border country dry. But Slade dodged the trap -- and the bandits started dropping under the blazing guns as the hard-eyed Ranger shot his way closer and closer to the hidden mastermind -- and to the final deadly shootout in a...

"No vengeance is more deadly than that of a grief-stricken woman whose husband has been violently killed. In the case of Louella Snow, her grief was intensified by the briefness of her marriage to Luke. And her determination to make his killer pay was in no way lessened by the fact that it was a woman, Nina Telfors, whom she held responsible for Luke's death. Lou Winters, a newcomer to Concho Valley, had his own reasons for cutting into the vengeance...