Small ranchers in Harmony, Oregon, are up against it with the price of cattle down and Skull Ranch, owned by a syndicate, trying to buy them out. Dan Riley spends a month trying to find a bank to help them, but he fails. When the editor of The Clarion is shot, the ranchers blame Black Mike Sand, the manager of Skull, in spite of the circumstances of the shooting. As pressure mounts, Riley is determined to find out who is really in charge of the syndicate, and the only man willing ...

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”

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...

The summer warpath began in late spring 1876 and was one laid out under the command of General George Crook, perhaps the most experienced Indian fighter in the United States Army at that time. Among other officers under Crook’s command was the daring and resourceful Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Cavalry. The purpose of the campaign was to round up the wild tribes of the Cheyennes and Sioux and place them on reservations.Walt Staley is a drifter, a man who w...

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...

A FEUD BETWEEN FATHER AND SON COMES TO A HEAD—IT’S KILL OR BE KILLEDWHEN HIS FATHER COMES GUNNING...Rick Proctor faces the biggest crisis of his young life. Although he had tried to lead a life separate from his father's, Rick makes a discovery which will make that impossible forever: his father is aiming to kill Rick's best friend—and his father's sidekicks have already come for him, too.Now the tables are turned. The hunted becomes the hunter, as Rick is forced to...

Bill Worden had been sheriff of Grant County for eleven years, yet now he was faced with the toughest twenty-four hours of his life.He had always succeeded in keeping things quiet between the ranchers and the farmers—but that was before he had a prisoner to hang: Ed Lake, a convicted murderer.Now the ranchers were plotting to set Lake free, and the farmers were talking about lynching him—and it was up to Worden to keep both sides from carrying out their plans... if he could...

A SMALL TOWN BECOMES THE BATTLEGROUNDFOR A VERY DEADLY FAMILY FEUD.WELCOME HOME, KIDWhen Jim Dunn, better known as the Kid, rode into his old home town of Cairo, he figured he'd have to shoot fast. He figured they'd remember his saloon-wrecking sprees and hell-raising exploits of old. What he didn't figure on was finding his father six feet under and his brand-new stepmother running the family ranch with an outlaw crew.Nobody, not even his girl, thought Jim c...

ROCKY MOUNTAIN JUSTICECole Weston owned all the land around Saddle Rock, Colorado, and figured his money made him the law of the land. To his way of thinking, nesters and rustlers deserved the same fate-lynching from the nearest tree. The only man brave enough to stand up to Weston's brand of frontier justice was Deputy Price Regan. With no more backup than his shadow, Regan would fight for what he knew was right-even if it meant gunning down every last one of Weston's hired killer...

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...

"ALL RIGHT, BEN. YOU GOT TIRED OF RISKING YOUR LIFE TO PROTECT OTHER PEOPLE. YOU HAD A VACATION COMING; NOW YOU'VE HAD IT. IT'S OVER.”Ben Sarboe didn't know if he was ready to take up a gun again; he hadn't meant it to be a vacation, he'd thought he'd retired. And now they'd found him, in this Godforsaken valley.And they were going to bring people, and money, and guns. So Ben had to decide to pick up his gun again, or else drift some more, and he was tired of drifting, and ...

GUN-SHYBig Jim Perrin was the richest cattle boss Oregon had ever known. With the help of frontier hard cases like Dan Nathan, he got everything he wanted without ever drawing a gun. But Nathan’s loyalties were divided between his land-hungry employer and the nesters who lost their spreads to Perrin. As much as he dreaded it, Dan knew that the greedier Perrin became, the sooner he'd have to turn h is six-shooter on the man he’d once called a friend.Classic Western Adventure byWAYNE D. OVER...