In the rugged frontier of 1882 Montana, gunfighter Ian Murphy seeks a fresh start, determined to put down roots and build a ranch far from the shadows of his past in Texas. But as he trades gunfire for homesteading, he quickly learns that peace is a fragile dream in a divided land.Amidst the breathtaking landscape of the untamed West, Ian is a man with a past he's trying to outrun and a future he's trying to build. But when an established rancher and homesteaders clash over dwindli...

A reticent stranger. A town keeping a grave secret. And there's a score to settle, things to put right.An unsuspecting lone rider comes to a tiny town on the west bank of the Pecos River possessing a terrible secret the residents are determined to protect. By violence if necessary.When McNeil rode into Dead Horse Crossing, a tiny town on the west bank of the Pecos, he wasn't looking for trouble. Tight-lipped about the purpose of his visit, ...

A lawless town west of the Pecos. A motley collection of rough-and-wooly nail-eaters who treat law and order with careless disregard. A lone rider whose reputation as a gunfighter proceeds him wherever he goes. Once on the other side of things, he's now an upright citizen with an inclination to set things right when he encounters injustice.Boiling like a coffee pot, Comanche Gap is an isolated, squalid little town squatting astride a mountain pass in West Texas. "The law don't go" ...

Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is forced to leave his new home. He rides lonely mountain passes and works on dusty cattle drives until he finds a job breaking horses. Then he meets Liza Hetrick, and in her eyes he sees his future. After establishing himself as marshal of Alta, he retur...

Bill Canavan rode into the valley with a dream to start his own ranch. But when he managed to stake claims on the three best water holes, the other ranchers turned against him.No one is more determined to see Canavan dead than Star Levitt. Levitt is an unscrupulous businessman who has been accumulating cattle at an alarming rate. Suspicious after witnessing a secret meeting between the riders of warring ranches, Bill begins noticing other dubious behavior: Why is Levitt’s fiancée, ...

This collection of six exciting Western stories from early in Louis L’Amour’s career begins with “Fork Your Own Broncs,” in which Mac Marcy, who had saved for seven years to run his own small cattle ranch, sees his dream come true, only to have it threatened by Jingle Bob Kenyon.In “Keep Travelin’, Rider,” Tack Gentry returns to Sunbonnet and his uncle’s G Bar Ranch only to find that his uncle, a Quaker, has been killed in a gunfight. A faction has moved in and run roughshod over t...

From Award-winning author, Mike Stotter, comes his first book written under the byline of Jim A. Nelson. In Montana, Big Sky Country, the threat of a ranch war over a new breed of cattle hangs over The Leaning B and the DR ranches. Bloodshed was the last thing on everyone's mind but nevertheless blood is spilt. Hired gunman Will Calhoun soon finds himself elevated to the job of co-owner of The Leaning B, and that's when the real trouble begins. Fists fly and lead kisses the air as the thre...

From bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, the epic tale of a Rebel doctor surviving in the lawless aftermath of the Civil War continues . . .Johnstone Justice. What America Needs Now.A DEADLY CURE FOR JUSTICEWhen the war ended, Dr. Samuel Knight went home to Texas—but the life he expected was in ruins, his wife married to a carpetbagger. Trying to defend what’s left of his previous existence,...

**BASED ON THE REAL LIFE OF AN ICON OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE.William Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone are the acclaimed masters of the American frontier and national bestsellers. Now, they take on the deadliest and most feared outlaw to ever walk the Old West—John Wesley Hardin.**First he became a killer.Then he became a legend.He was 15 when he killed his first man. Before his murderous ways ended, Hardin killed 42 men in cold blood—one, the legend goes, because he...

A gunslinger goes up against his own kin in this western from USA Today bestselling author Ralph Compton.Nathan Stone is a living legend in the West as a lawman, an outlaw, a gambler, and a wanderer through the wildest towns and terrain. He has blazed a vengeance trail, giving no quarter and asking for none. Fearlessly, he plays his cards and uses his Colt .45s as best he can in games of chance, skill, and savagery, for stakes of life or death.Now ...

Swift, deadly and merciless were the raiders who hit the Kansas ranch and when they rode out they left behind two men dead and a woman who wouldn't make it through the night. With a stolen Army payroll in their saddlebags they ran for the border and although they covered their back-trail well, someone was on it. He was a man with a gun, determined to hunt every one of them down. His name was Angel and the name of his game was sudden death.And so the Justice Department put their best...

The award-winning author's "fearless" debut novel chronicles the life of a legendary Texas outlaw with "a ruthless sensibility . . . spare and tough" ( Publishers Weekly).Some called him a Texas hero. Some called him the Devil himself. But on one point they all agreed. While he was alive, John Wesley Hardin was the deadliest man in Texas.A killer at fifteen, in the next few years he became skilled enough with his pistols to back do...