Gambler, gunman, knight errant, Rogue Bishop again faces his old foe, Don Ricardo de Risa, the shrewd, ruthless Mexican bandit king in this taut story of danger and pursuit.

On the run, Eben Hawkins arrives at his brother's ranch to find him dead and the ranch in danger. He sets out to fight the big rancher threatening to drive the homesteaders away.

Western.

When Buck Trager was ten years old, his mother, father, and brother were tortured and murdered for a bag of gold dust. The murderers, captives of gold fever, are still living in what is now a ghost town. Buck returns, eight years later, to confront them and seek vengeance.

Perry Starbuck intends to grab unbranded cattle and mark them as Starbuck property. But a sadistic "vaquero" with a whip has other ideas.

A novel in the form of an extended monologue, in which an aging gunslinger, on the eve of his hanging, remembers the highpoints of his long and somewhat murderous career.

Most folks around Fort Smith, Arkansas thought Judge Isaac Parker had taken leave of his senses when he commissioned Gar Rutherford, a black man, as a federal marshal. Parker reasoned that a black marshal would engender less hatred among the Indian tribes of the Oklahoma Territory than a white man would. The judge underestimated the prejudice of whites and the contempt of blacks, though, especially when a warrant from Parker's court forced the marshal...

Thomas Canfield, a hard but decent rancher, contends with hard, violent Branch Isom, who comes to Stonehill, Texas to dominate the carting trade.