Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon. He has fully recovered when the train pulls into a fort to stock up on supplies. It is there that the leaders of the train meet Morton Harper, a smooth-talking man who persuades them to take an easier trail that will allow them to escape an attack by Indians. Bannon knows that there will be no escape from attack on that route and that it will lead the train directly...

"Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in good of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness of cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers,...

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." This volume presents nine of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories-history that lives forever. In "Riding for the Brand," Jed Asbury comes across a derelict covered wagon-the people and their horses killed-and decides to finish what the former owners had set out to do. In "Four Card Draw," Allen Ring wins a small...

As a young child, most love to hear a fairy tale. You know, the ones that begin with "Once upon a time". The tale greatly suggests doing the Unthinkable or entering the realm of the impossible. It is delightfully similar when someone shares a personal testimony of faith; that same testimony can bring hope to pessimist, joy to the broken hearted, and graciously invoke faith for the skeptic. In "Along the Road II Letting Go", we will find out what happens...

Circus life killed her mother will it destroy Tiffany's first love too?After the tragic death of her mother Tiffany blamed the circus and her father. Their relationship reaches the breaking point when she's shipped off to boarding school.Years later her father's illness forces Tiffany to leave school, return home and make life-changing decisions.Will Tiffany help her dad run the circus or secretly scheme to sell it? Can Tiffany find it in her heart...

Forced to escape to prevent an arranged marriage leads to a life of deceit, betrayal and heartache!Grace Conley will inherit a fortune on her 21st birthday, but her legal guardian has plans for the young woman and her money.Rather than marry the tyrannical Mr. Wright Grace disappears and assumes the identity of a girl on the run.Befriended by the Alexander family, they welcome Grace into their home unaware of her true identity. Noah Alexander and...

Rock Bannon was a killer and a hero. All the settlers understood was that he was a killer, and where they came from killing was wrong and justice left to the police. So Rock's warnings of peril fell on deaf ears and the settlers forged onward, lured toward certain destruction by a glowing promise of a cheap rangeland paradise that didn't exist. Then Mort Harper, the worst killer in the territory, took Roc Bannon's fiancee, and Rock came to get her. "Figured...

No one describes the adventures of the lone cowboy better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of the Old West before the days of law and order. Here is one of Louis L'Amour's short stories, with text restored according to the state of its initial publication.

In "The Lion Hunter and the Lady," the lion hunter is called Cat Morgan because of his reputation for being able to bag mountain lions alive to sell them to circuses and zoos.

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A girl, gold, and rich pasture beckons Matt Bardoul to a wagon train headed toward Big Horns and a pack of sidewinders.

Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes. . . . Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards. . . . Strong-willed señoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit. . . . Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson. Gritty, tough, and unflinchingly authentic, here is...