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A collection of three western stories includes "The Law Dodger of Windy Creek," in which Sam Leader escapes from prison and sets off to get revenge on Bill Orping, who allowed him to arrested on a false charge of murder.

In "Gunman's Bluff," Cheyenne was challenged to a shootout by Danny and Chuck Martin. He managed to kill Danny and wound Chuck, but before he could get away, Chuck got a shot off and hit Cheyenne in the shoulder. Now Doc Lindus has told him that it might be quite some time until he has use of his right hand again, so he'd better develop his left. With the Martins out for blood, how's Cheyenne to defend himself? In "Torridon," Paul Torridon was only...

"An outlaw known only as Kingbird goes from being pursued to being the pursuer when he is asked to find the Blair's missing daughter, who is also his friend"--

The stallion Sedgewick is considered a man-killer, in "The Singular Horseman". He belongs to Elena Casimir-Jones, and she absolutely refuses to have him destroyed. Dyke Vincent, a young rider frustrated with all the talk about Sedgewick, sets out to ride the stallion and prove everyone wrong.In "Sign of the Hawk", a hawk made of feathers is left pinned to Handsome Harry Delancey's unconscious victims. No one knows him, and no one can find him - with...

Juan Oro would never know who his parents were or where he had come from. He had been raised by Yaqui Indians, and as a youth he was captured in a battle by the men of Don Jose Fontana, a wealthy Spanish grandee in northern Mexico.The don is advised to apprentice him to the notorious outlaw, Matias Bordi, who had a long-standing truce with Fontana. Who better to turn Juan Oro into a true master of weapons and battle?But Don Jose, whom Juan has come...

"The Indians called the great white wolf the Lightning Warrior because of the swiftness with which he can parry and attack. There is a bounty for the head of the Lightning Warrior, but no one is able to capture him. That is, until the red-haired, blue-eyed giant of a man known only as Cobalt comes to town. Struck by the charm of Sylvia Baird, Cobalt announces his intention to marry her. Sylvia's father disapproves, as does her friend, Tom Chalmers....

The house on the hill in Merridan belonged to Captain Slocum. It was regarded as a house of mystery, and it was protected by dogs that ran the grounds at night and armed men who allowed no visitors, even when the captain was away from the house, which for periods of time on end he was. Don Grier was still a boy when he braved the terrors of the captain's domain to steal a watermelon. It made Don Grier a hero, and a hero has to be challenged. Don's...

Three Western stories. A man on a mule must intercept a killer on horseback. A sharpshooter threatens a trench of soldiers. An old prize-fighter has a task to perform.