Violence and rumored rebellion had turned the border country into a powder keg primed to explode at any second. The mysterious “Liberator" called for war – and men who spoke against him died suddenly!<P> Walt Slade, undercover ace of the Texas Rangers, rode into Matamoros, a one-man task force with the deadly job of stopping a revolution before it started. For Slade knew that “The Liberator" was none other than Veck Sosna, the most ruthless outlaw Texas ever spawned!<P> Danger lay ahead – but even Slade could not foresee the terrible ordeal that faced him on the TRAIL OF BLOOD AND BONES
"You’re on your way to HELL!"<P> The outlaw Roush brothers whirled from the bar at the sound of the harsh voice. What they saw was a kid not yet eighteen – but what a kid! <P>He was Jimmy Clanton, a tough rawhider who had notched his first killing two years before. «What do you want with us?» growled Dave Roush. His brother Hugh moved slowly along the bar.<P> The kid, hands propped on his hips, watched quietly. «I'm here to settle for what you two did to my sister,» he said finally.<P> The Roush brothers exchanged glances. Then their hands dropped to their black .44s and gun thunder churned savagely through the saloon…
MUSTANG! The pride of his rancher owner, Mustang was stolen by a wandering cowboy and traded from hand to hand. Nobody could touch spur to him. Swift as the wind, the big bay won the only race he entered – and kept on running, back to the open range. He wanted no more of men. Then, trapped by horse hunters, chased by cowboys eager for his capture, Mustang finally rejoined his owner in a desperate race with a blizzard. A classic western novel by one of the most acclaimed western authors of his day.
"A story for horse lovers lf all ages, about a mustang which survived for months of desperate adventures alone on the open range." – The Muncie Sunday Star.
He'd been warned against the Wild Ones, but something made him ignore the warning. They terrorized the territory, bullied and scared the settlers into cooperating with them, and from what Chet Kelvin could figure out, they seemed to be operating from the mysterious IXL Ranch. If there was anything Chet couldn’t stand it was a mystery, but once he started solving it he wished he’d let it alone.
This is the ballad of Matt Evans, who rode in from Texas with smoking six-guns and a brother he wanted to forget. And of Bide Evans, who swore to bring law and order to a town that knew only trigger-rule and vigilante vengeance. And the high noon of that day when «the gunsmoke brothers» faced each other in the dusty street of Hangman's Gulch.<P> AN EXPLOSIVE STORY BY THE DEAN OF AMERICA’S WESTERN NOVELISTS
RENEGADES MUST DIE ! <P> "No peace. There is war among us. White man will die the Apache way. White man will see his fields and houses burn. Your squaws will be treated the Apache way." <P> An Indian chief betrayed by a white man who breaks a treaty – and a white settlement thirsting for vengeance – make a blazing story of frontier life in the bloody days of the Apaches.
Through the shadows Gordon saw the tall man, a head taller than anyone else on the street. Lamplight spilling from the store fronts made the gunslinger’s eyes bright yellow as they settled on him.<P> Gordon had thought about it over a hundred campfires. He had known it would happen sooner or later – that he would be facing this man who was standing now in the center of the street. That he would reach for his gun and beat the fastest draw in the territory to the kill!
A bloody gun feud between rival freight haulers threatened to rip apart the peace and quiet of Sanderson, Texas until Walt Slade – the undercover Texas Ranger – compelled law and order. But each side accused the other of murder as a brutal series of killings, robberies, and bank hold-ups roused the passion of the warring factions. Slade knew different. He knew that the clever, cruel pattern of the crimes was the unique work of a special breed of outlaw. And he also knew that if he didn't catch Juan Cavelo soon, a tranquil town in Texas would surely become…DEATH'S CORRAL!
El Paso was ready for trouble, as Ranger undercover agent Walt Slade found when he rode in – and was nearly gunned down by quick-triggered citizens, suspicious of any stranger. For a stranger might be one of the dreaded Starlight Riders, who raided and burned from their mysterious mountain hideout, threatening to destroy the Texan ranchers and farmers who refused to pay «protection money.» In his role of the «outlaw» El Halcon, Slade prowled the Border Hills and the back streets of El Paso, hunting the Riders' brilliant mastermind – and keeping his hands close to his guns, because when the Ranger and his quarry met it would be time for gunsmoke talk!
Young Burr Henderson, who survived an airplane crash in the Arizona desert in Medicine Walk, returns to fight for the ranch that he inherited from his father, and must survive another encounter with death in the unforgiving wasteland.