It was a time of legends. A time when brave souls dared to follow their dreams into untamed lands, despite dangers and hardships few could imagine. Of these heroic pioneers, one man stood alone. Frontiersman, fur trapper, Army Scout, and trusted friend of the Indian, perhaps no one embodied the adventure and history of the American wilderness more than Kit Carson. Against this vast backdrop of the Spanish and Mexican Southwest and the Indian nations,...

To a man like Cole Dagget, eight hundred dollars meant a lot of hard hours in the saddle--and just enough to return to Texas, settle down and get married. So when the money was stolen from him in a small-town holdup, there was no way he was going to let the robbers just ride off with it. And he wasn't about to wait while the people of Solitude formed a posse. Cole could only guess at the danger he was riding into when he set out alone after four outlaws....

"Two western stories: 'Texas Flat' is the scene of an ill-fated cattle drive attempt to help small ranchers break the control of a large cattle rancher. 'Rinneger' finds Cole trying to fulfill his brother's dying wish to return the money Harvey stole from a bank while others try to stop him and keep the money for themselves"--

"In two western stories, two lone travelers have their plans change unexpectedly when they happen upon people in need of help"--

"In 'Gun of a killer' Luke Wade faces rustlers as he searches for the man who killed his father. In 'Panhandle Gunman' Mace Seevert comes home from war to discover his former commanding officer has laid claim to Mace's ranch and doesn't plan to give it back"--

In 'Tenkiller Flats," Hannah Bradford has written to Dave Keegan to inform him of his father's death and to let him know that the Lazy K Ranch is now his. Dave had left because his father agreed to join the Seevert syndicate. Pride Seevert of the Seven Diamond Ranch had gotten the ranchers in the valley to merge their cattle for shipment with the Seven Diamond herd. The Seeverts would get a percentage once the cattle were sold. It was Dave Keegan's...

One More Hill to Hell concerns Dan Grimshaw who rides for Caine Pomeroy. Pomeroy s Kingpin Ranch is in the process of ruthless expansion. Melissa Olmstead an attractive widow has been holding out against Kingpin s eviction notice to her. Grimshaw at the risk of his own life breaks ranks and makes one last effort to get Melissa to give in. When again she refuses Grimshaw is confronted with a moral dilemma one that could put him in as much jeopardy...

Ben Sutton's law: "concerns a territorial marshal summoned to Mexican Springs to intervene in violence that has broken out between cattle ranchers and nesters. Even before he arrives at his destination, sutton has a bloody encounter with members of the Denison gang who are intent on revenge after an earlier encounter. sutton's mission is to be kept secret, so he cannot share information with or seek the assistance of the local sheriff. This isolation...