"Three men--a scout, a soldier, and a reporter--will have their lives changed forever after they join General Crook's expeditionary force in the 1876 campaign against the Cheyenne and Sioux"--

Clay Roland, marshal of Paiute City was on the main street when the young stranger rode into town, looking for him. Soom after, the stranger lay dead on tre floor of Kelly's Bar, shot by Blacky Doane after he refused to turn over a letter he claimed was for the marshal. Confronted by the marshal, Blacky decides to hand over the letter and then leaves town. The letter is from a lawyer in Painted Rock, a distant town in the shadow of Skull Mesa. Clay's...

"In two Western stories, 'The Courage Builder' and 'Valley of the 99', small time ranchers that the wealthy are trying to force them off their land. Violence erupts when they allow others to use that fear to manipulate them"--Provided by publisher.

"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...

Dan Quaid had a chance to buy prime cattle range in Central Oregon at $2.00 an acre. And he wanted to get his boy out to the country where a man could breathe without knocking down his neighbour.So the Quaids pulled stakes and moved. Dan didn't know that the company selling him the land was at war with the squatters already on it, and that the squatters were led by a vicious, violent man who thought nothing of murder when it came to keeping people...

Denver Daily Chronicle reporter Bob Norberg is sent to Smith's Cove, Colorado, to write a story about Susie Bowman, a woman who had been tried for rustling and because of a hung jury was to be tried again in late summer. His editor thought Susie was being framed and wanted Norberg to clear her name, but Bob didn't expect what he found. Susie Bowman was quite a character. To the small ranchers around Smith's Cove, she was almost a legend-- friend of...

Two novellas on the Wild West. In the title novella, a man learns his deceased father was a bank robber and the loot is stashed on their old ranch, so he buys back the ranch, buying himself plenty of trouble, too.

It was Indian land--raw, hostile and untamed. But to the hundreds of setters who waited by the river camp to stake their claims, it was a land that held great promise. The settlers in the river camp were waiting for word from the Federal Troops. They were ready to rush into the Ute reservation and grab the best land--and they were prepared to kill to keep it. (Book cover)

"Eighteen-year-old Mark Kelton's parents are killed by an unknown assailant and the money they were carrying to buy a ranch in Eastern Oregon is stolen. Bronco Curtis befriends Mark, trains him to survive, and calls him his partner, but Mark is convinced that he won't be a man until he finds that murdering thief."--