1867. The USA has just purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire, and sent Colonel Jefferson Davis and part of the 9th Infantry to take possession of the last frontier. But the soldiers have barely landed on Baranof Island before two officers are brutally slain in Sitka's cathedra...
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Buffalo hunter Woodrow Clayton experiences the full horror of the Comanche terror at the Battle of Adobe Walls, and then again in the bloody aftermath that spreads along the frontier. He vows to help the US Army put an end to it, once and for all. Homesteader Jared Tucker sees hi...
Deputy United States Marshal Jesse Bronson is sent north of the line into Canada, to assist with the capture of two highly dangerous American outlaws. Brin Carson and Vern Hatcher have joined up with a gang of ruthless Metis led by Gabriel Dumont. Their joint aim is to target the...
"Along the infamous Outlaw Trail, three parties' paths will cross - with unforeseen consequences. Former lawman Rance Toller and his companion Angie Sutter are heading south to the warmer climes of Arizona. Cole Hastings, a vicious rustler, has amassed a huge herd of stolen horse...
The days of slaughtering buffalo are meant to be over, with so pitifully few of them remaining. But with top dollar on offer for their severed heads as trophies, some hunters just can't resist. In Yellowstone Park, Captain Moses Harris and his company of US Cavalry are assigned t...
"In the winter of 1888, a gang led by notorious desperado Taw Johnson arrives at a small ranch near the town of Chinook. Cathy Clemens is recently married, but temporarily alone on the ranch, and Johnson makes the fateful decision to carry her off. When her husband John returns, ...
John Taggart and Jacob Stuckey are Civil War veterans who operate a ferry on the mighty Arkansas River - but trouble still finds them in the tranquil setting. After robbing a bank in Wichita, Russ Decker and his gang's escape route takes them by way of the ferry crossing. Once th...
Bannock, a hardened frontiersman, and his friend Chet Butler are escorting members of a religious sect through northern Mexico. Eager to escape persecution, the 'Children of God' have fled the USA in search of a new home. Unfortunately for these strict pacifists, a band of raidin...
As Martha Pootes watched the three Union soldiers approach her parents' farm in Kentucky, she had no inkling of the stark horror they would bring. Raped and left for dead, the young woman managed to impart a sketchy description of her attackers before breathing her last. Returnin...
"In 1885 a large band of Canadian rebels slips south over the border into Montana Territory with a stolen Gatling gun. Deputy United States Marshal Jesse Bronson is sent to apprehend them, accompanied by a corporal of the Canadian North-West Mounted Police. Though Bronson is init...
British Army deserter Thomas Collins is working with the Texas Rangers to bring supplies of gunpowder back to San Antonio for the continuing struggle against the fearsome Comanche Nation. As they slowly drive their heavy-laden wagons back, Thomas's past catches up with him in the...
Marshal Rance Toller is locking up a pair of troublemakers when Angie Sutter, a homesteader from a nearby valley, arrives with the news that her husband was murdered that morning. Whilst Rance has qualms about heading out into the frozen wasteland, leaving only an ageing deputy t...
"Former lawman Rance Toller and his lover Angie Sutter foil a stagecoach robbery just outside the frontier settlement of Tombstone, Arizona, and in the process capture the notorious gunfighter Johnny Ringo. As a result, Rance is persuaded to accept the vacant position of town mar...
Brett Dalton, a deadly pistolero, is hired to assassinate President Ulysses S. Grant as he embarks on a re-election campaign across the western states. The President will be travelling via the Union Pacific Railroad, and when his locomotive stops to take on water at an isolated p...
"In a sheltered basin, high up in Colorado's remote Rocky Mountains, two field collectors discover an awesome array of dinosaur bones. Knowing that two competing and irreconcilably hostile palaeontologists will pay big money for knowledge of such a find, the men realise that they...
One year after the end of the Civil War, three southerners are heading northwest on the Bozeman Trail to the gold mining camp at Virginia City. when they find the army has closed the trail because the Sioux are on the warpath, they accept work at Fort Phil Kearny. After an Indian...
"Kansas in 1857 is a dangerous place to live. Lee Madden, tired of the relentless cycle of violence, joins a westward bound wagon train led by his old army friend, Jake Twelvetrees. Good with a gun, it is Lee's job to protect the settlers on their journey to Oregon from the hosti...
The year is 1861 and the nation is at war. The Western Union Telegraph Company intends to connect East with West as never before, but is beset by enemies. Wires are cut and telegraph poles burned, and then matters take a far darker turn when a repair crew is massacred. The questi...
Lee Madden's job is to protect a wagon train on its journey from Missouri to Oregon. But his past catches up with him in the brutal shape of Deacon Swain, a border ruffian out to avenge the killing of his younger brother. There are compensations, though. After a vicious clash wit...
Following on from A Return to the Alamo, Thomas Collins and the Texas Rangers are on a mission to escort the infamous dictator Lopez de Santa Anna inland so that he can regain power and end the war with America. But far from assisting him, Collins's men may well intend to slaught...