When Nate King agrees to help find a missing family, little does he know his gesture of goodwill will turn into a terrifying ordeal that will test his wilderness skills to their...
Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in Appaloosa, where their work enforcing the law has been exceptionally quiet. All that is about to change. An ominous storm rolls in, and along with it a band of night riders with a...
In the Spur Award-winning title story, a Pinkerton detective, a couple on the run, a wanted man, and a traveling salesman with mysterious wares all converge on the banks of Crucifixion River to take shelter from an impending...
It's the young Republic of Texas' worst nightmare, as the scattered Comanches have united under a single warrior chief to ready a campaign of carnage. Only one man can turn back this tide of bloody terror--John Henry McAllen, head of the ragtag...
Longarm tracks a killer arsonist responsible for the destruction of a Denver rooming house, the murder of its inhabitants, and the theft of a fortune in treasury notes into Santee country, where hostile Indians are primed to protect their...
Jake Horn was on the dodge for a crime he didn't commit when the town of Sweet Sorrow took him in and rewarded him with a badge he didn't want. Still, this out-of-the-way Dakota hellhole is a good place for a man to get lost...
The Scottish Highlands, 1885. Two men, brandishing knives, attack a young woman outside a pub. Duff MacAllister steps in and saves her—killing one of the assailants. Big mistake. The attacker was the sheriff’s son, and now MacAllister is marked...
Gold is the pay dirt in all these rip-roaring western stories, more of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Whispering Sands series with their unique desert setting. Again the master storyteller features his rugged western hero, the philosophical prospector Bob...
Those who inhabit the harsh, beautiful, blood-red land between Tucson and Fort Bowie have never seen the like of the Shadow Rider—who appears out of nowhere and vanishes just as suddenly in the desert heat. Now death and lies surround him again....