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Wayne D. Overholser

In the title story, Murdo Morgan left Paradise Valley sixteen years ago, after his brothers had been killed at the hand of the Turkey Track outfit. One year later, his father died a broken and defeated man. Broad Clancy, owner of the Turkey Track, has remained the controlling force in this area of high desert in Oregon, considering all the land to be open range, including the six-mile strip on both sides of the old wagon road which belongs to Cascade and Paradise Land Company. He fears tha...

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Wayne D. Overholser

Stories included:“The Woman from Cougar Creek”“The Price of Pride”“The Devil and Old Man Gillis”“Shooting for a Fall”“It’s Hell to Be a Hero”“The Tongue-Tied Cowboy”“From Hell to Leadville”“The Deputy with a Past”“Judge Peterson’s Colt Law”“The Breaking of Sam McKay”“Fugitive from the Boothill Brigade”“The Man Ten Feet Tall”

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In a land of broken promises, one man stands between white greed and red fury!COLORADO, INDIAN COUNTRY, 1879The Milk Creek Massacre left a legacy of hatred that lies like tinder around the Territory.Any spark will set off a firestorm of vengeance. Government agent David Rand knows it will be impossible to put out the fire once it gets started. Caught between land-hungry settlers and war-hungry Utes, Rand's only hope is to tell the truth—even if the truth saves the l...

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Black MikeSam Cassidy comes home to find himself in a series of tense confrontations. His father expects Sam to work for him at the local bank, and Sheriff Ben Faraday, for whom Sam worked the previous summer as deputy, is suffering from a terminal disease and wants Sam to become a deputy again. "Black Mike" Nickels wants to expand his use of public land and bring in more sheep, backed by guns. The Cattlemen's Association has vowed to stop Black Mike, but Sam's decision to...

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The blazing story of Colorado Territory—when secret societies ruled a lawless landKirby Grant was sent to Denver by a secret society on a mission vital to the future of the Union. He knew he had to stay alert. There were dangerous men who knew why Kirby was there and hated him for it.Then he fell in love with a fiery, red-headed spy, and as Colorado's day of judgment approached, Kirby found sudden death closing in ...A POWERFUL NOVEL PACKED WITH GUN-BLAZING ACTION ....

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A bullet-blazing saga of the West—and the hard men who fought for its spoilsTHE BIG MANDakota Jones was big—a big-fisted, big-boned man with a temper big enough for a dozen mountain men.Sam Hargadine was his opposite—a gambler whose icy self-control was his greatest weapon. But Sam needed Dakota. Only he could lead a wagon train of liquor, women and gold over the stretch of hell between them and Deadwood.So Dakota was in charge—and he wasn't about to take a ...

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FARGO IS COMINGFor two years, thirteen men in San Lorenzo had feared the return of killer Ben Fargo. For the day they had sentenced him to rot in Canon City Prison, he had sworn to get even with them. Now Fargo had escaped and nothing could stop him. Hate in his blood, a six-shooter in his hand, Fargo was coming back for revenge-and he wouldn't leave until he had shot his last bullet and his enemies had drowned in their own blood.

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When Kim Logan is hired by Peg Cody to be her snake stomper, he thinks he's helping a nice lady stay out of harm's way. He thinks he's protecting her from the resident badboy, Hank Dunning, who is trying to force Peg's ranch into forfeiture so he could grab it for a song and be the most powerful landowner in the territory.Logan loves Peg and would do anything for her. But before he knows it he's in jail for a murder he didn't commit, and Peg and her supposed enemy, Dunning, are eye...

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Hell on high red wheels!Cotton Drennan had packed a good many smoky years into a short span of time. For him, death lurked in shadowy alleys, and he watched them carefully always. He owed his life to that care—and to a fast and accurate gun.The Broken Ring Ranch was the biggest on the range and getting bigger—with the help of a gun-heavy crew. And nobody but Cotton Drennan seemed to give a damn about the injustice of Broken Ring's big grab. Cotton had been through range war...

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A gold rush threatens to break the peace of a quiet Colorado town.Angel’s Landing was the mining town that grew up around a gold strike in the hills of Colorado. But the boom was long ago, and now the town is a whisper of what it once was. Mark Girard was a young boy when he witnessed firsthand what happened to a town when all of its residents vanished. It was a simple, quiet life that Mark had chosen to lead, and he and his closest friends much preferred it to the...

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Dave Harmon was the best marshal Miles City ever had. And the toughest. He believed in his badge and everything it stood for.But sometimes a man had to step outside the law to live with himself.When Harmon’s time came, it came hard . . . it came to laying down his star and picking up a noose to hang the man who had saved his life. . . .

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BATTLE AT BEECHER ISLANDForty-nine untrained civilian volunteers, two wounded officers and a dying Army doctor were nailed down on a sand-bar in a shallow river by more than a thousand Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Sioux. For the fourth day the squaws and children shrieked with blood-lust. Roman Nose gathered his warriors for yet another attack. And again the desperate men on Beecher Island leveled their rifles... An epic novel of the blood and courage which won the West for civilization!...