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When Hank the Cowdog is accused of murder, he resigns his position as Head of Ranch Security and joins a gang of outlaw coyotes.

A collection of western stories featuring cattlemen, gamblers, lawmen and outlaws.

It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...

"They tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. No matter what life had dealt him, his father would go down fighting. Ans as he delved deeper into the mystery, he learned that just before his father died, the elder McRaven had experienced a remarkable run of luck: he'd won nearly ten thousand dollars and the deed to a cattle ranch. Not yet eighteen, Kearney was determined enough to track down his father's...

"Seven years ago Skeet Jones rescued thirteen-year-old Angela. Now a famous singer known as the Songbird of the West and going by the name of Carrie Whiting, she agrees to sing at his new saloon in Dry Creek to repay the debt. When threats arise, Detective Rance Dehner is determined to keep her safe"--

Introduces Meriwether Lewis and William Clark who, during their exploration of the West for Thomas Jefferson, captured a prairie dog and sent it to the President as a gift.