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A gold rush threatens to break the peace of a quiet Colorado town. Angel's Landing was the mining town that grew up around a gold strike in the hills of Colorado. But the boom was long ago, and now the town is a whisper of what it once was. Mark Girard was a young boy when he witnessed firsthand what happened to a town when all of its residents vanished. It was a simple, quiet life that Mark had chosen to lead, and he and his closest friends much...

There'd never be another man like Joe Pardee. Will Beeson tells of the people Joe knew and loved who were left behind after his untimely death. Now his disabled widow Sarah has to manage the cattlehands and keep the Box P ranch in business, trying to make a living from the ranch and protecting it from new settlers.

Eighteen-year-old Lane Garth embarks on a quest for revenge after an attack on his family's ranch by Jake Rawlings and his gang leaves Lane's father dead.

"Dan Quaid decides to buy prime cattle range in Central Oregon from a land company even after he learns that the people in the area are disputing the land company's right to the land and the land company plans to use him as a guinea pig. Either Tobe Henderson, the leader of the opposition, will kill Quaid and be prosecuted for murder or Quaid will be forced to kill Tobe in self-defense. Without their leader, the rest would settle and the land company...

In "Stage to Death," Bill Mason is a stagecoach guard, but he had once been a wild young hellion back in the Colorado mining camps. He had even once been involved in a bank robbery when he was known as Billy Bock, but that was in the past. For three years now he has had a perfect record in his present job in Oregon. Then he is quietly approached in a saloon in Opal City just before the stage run to Tamarack. The Domino Kid will rob the stage today....

"Dirken's Hole never bothered the outlaws who wintered there if the outlaws didn't bother them. Then one young man broke this rule. Robert Buel was a bounty hunter - a man appointed by the law to hunt down criminals for reward money. Now he was coming home. In the little town of Dirken's Hole, high in the Colorado Rockies, Buel returned to see his father - and to pick up his last assignment"--

"A reporter investigates the case of a young man who disappeared after killing the son of a powerful, unscrupulous rancher and soon finds himself part of the story"--

Denver Daily Chronicle reporter Bob Norberg is sent to Smith's Cove, Colorado, to write a story about Susie Bowman, a woman who had been tried for rustling and because of a hung jury was to be tried again in late summer. His editor thought Susie was being framed and wanted Norberg to clear here name, but Bob didn't expect what he found. Susie Bowman was quite a character. To the small ranchers around Smith's Cove, she was almost a legend -- friend...

"A remarkable battle was fought at Beecher Island, Colorado, in 1868. Forty-nine untrained volunteers, two wounded officers, and a dying army doctor were nailed down on a sandbar in a shallow river by more than a thousand Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Sioux. For the fourth day the squaws and children shrieked with blood-lust. Roman Nose gathered his warriors for yet another attack. And again the desperate men on Beecher Island leveled their rifles."--