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The undertaker practices the Dismal Trade with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. He has transformed the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war, street fights, fires - every hazard in a raw West - in his hands, become presentable. Everywhere on the frontier he offers his skill: to the rich of San Francisco, to Kansas cowboys, outlaws, soldiers, and sheriffs....

Theo Belk is the quintessential gunfighter: rootless, ruthless, and deadly. In the fierce and lawless Western frontier of 1874 these traits were what was needed to stay alive. Haunted by the ghosts of the men he's killed, there is one man he has set out to destroy... Louis Gasceaux, the man who murdered his parents while a younger Theo watched. But the trail Theo's following is long and bloody... and Louis always seems to stay a few steps ahead. This...

In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of immigrants sets off from Missouri for the Montana Territory. Leading them is wagon master Jamie Ian MacCallister, a giant of a man who swears he can get them there by Christmas. The journey is plagued by brutal storms and rugged terrain, outlaws and hostile Indians. Just when things look nearly hopeless, two unlikely saviors arrive: an old mountain man known as Preacher and legendary frontiersman Smoke Jensen....

On November 7, 1908 in the town of San Vicente, Butch Cassidy was killed in a bloody shootout with the Bolivian army. Or was he? In a small Texas town in 1950, a Pinkerton detective interrupts and old- timer's daily game of dominos to learn the truth about Butch Cassidy-- who is alive and well and sitting right in front of him. So begins a novel about the West's most legendary outlaw, as told by America's master storytellers.

Kah-nung-da-tla-geh -- the great Cherokee chieftain known as the Ridge -- had one foot in each of two worlds. The first was that of his ancestors; the second was a new world of forced change, war, and death that arrived with the white man. His visionary leadership led the Cherokee into the future as one nation. But the white tide continued, the Ridge's judgment was flung aside in favor of war, and his contribution to the Cherokee Nation was forgotten,...

Dr. John Bishop thought he'd seen his share of death on the Civil War battlefields. Then his quiet life was shattered when outlaws invaded his home, killed his family, and tortured him. Bishop's soul died that day, but his mangled body lived. A beautiful Cheyenne nursed him back to health, and a gunsmith outfitted him with a special shotgun rig where his left arm used to be. A strap across one shoulder fires it, while the chip on the other fuels his...

It's fur trapping season and Preacher is about to discover the Rocky Mountain trail holds more than wild game -- it's also infested with murderers and trail trash quick to deceive, steal, and hunt Preacher down. Among them are Jebediah Druke, his ruthless band of killers, and most terrifying of all, the barbaric renegade Crow warrior known as Blood Eye. There's a showdown coming and only one man will ultimately rise up out of the carnage . . .

When the outlaws responsible for brutally murdering the mayor's family escape the day before they are sentenced to hang, Duff MacCallister and the Jensen family must find and bring the criminals to bloody justice so that every can have a Merry Christmas.

In a sudden flash of terror, kill-crazy outlaws smash the bank in Caliche Bend, New Mexico. And the fine white powder that covers everything means The Snowman has struck again. The notorious bank robber uses bags of flour to stabilize the nitroglycerin used in his dynamite blasts. But this time the Snowman has made a blood enemy. Harlan Two-Trees loved the murdered sheriff like a father, and sets off to bring the Snowman to justice.