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Clancy Jarrett possesses a quick and violent temper, and no citizen of Brannigan dares cross him. When his stagecoach hold-up is thwarted by three trail-herders, his rage cannot be contained. And when he learns that they are escorting Kate Jeavons - a dance-hall girl whose sister...

Riding the line DuRey, Will.

The flare-up between Zeb Walters of the Red Hammer ranch and Broken Arrow's top hand, Jim Braddock, is brief; the cause a mystery to everyone, including Jim. Over the following days, the event gives rise to much gossip and speculation in Big Timber. Weeks later, Jim and Zeb meet ...

Since the signing of the Laramie Treaty, the tribes of the Plains have practised their nomadic lifestyle within the boundaries of the lands set aside for their use. While the Americans, the WASICUN, stay away, the tenuous peace is maintained. One word, however, uttered at a river...

Few white men know the land west of the Missouri like Weston Gray, renowned hunter, tracker and guide. The Arapaho and Lakota Sioux call him Medicine Feather. He has lived with them from time to time, acting as interpreter and spokesman for them with the military, and at treaty m...

Blamed for the murder of a prominent politician, gambler Dan Freemont is forced to flee Nebraska. Pursued by the real killer's henchmen, he arrives at the small Wyoming town of Beecher Gulch, where he hopes a planned rendezvous with a US marshal will prove his innocence. But a co...

The stagecoach from the north has failed to arrive in the small settlement of Laramie, and when two men ride in fresh from a fight, the inhabitants begin to fear that the rumoured unrest among the Sioux following the discovery of gold in the Black Hills has become reality. Their ...

"When Charlie Jefferson arrives in the Texas town of Mortimer, left for dead after a brutal ambush and robbery, he is intent on finding the man who did this to him. But he is unwittingly drawn into a plot involving the town council. For, en route to Mortimer from the wasteland wh...

Ben Joyner has no argument with the people who settled on the grassland near Pecos, but other cattlemen have long considered the range their own domain. Ben's boss Gus Remarque believes a dollar a day buys not only a man's labour, but his loyalty too. When that loyalty might invo...

Dick Lazarus and his gang are feared on both sides of the Rio Grande. Lazarus's increasingly daring crimes see him raid the ranchero of the Robles family in Mexico, stealing a herd of horses and taking a hostage - Luis Robles - who should fetch a hefty ransom. Dan Calloway, owner...

The Drummond brand DuRey, Will.

"Luther Drummond, owner of the Diamond-D ranch, is buying up land vacated by settlers who have been forced out by a ruinous winter. Rumours abound, however, that many of the misfortunes suffered by the settlers are not the result of nature but are directly attributable to Luther'...

Medicine feather DuRey, Will.

Prospectors in the hills are being ambushed and killed by a gang determined to snatch every ounce of gold that is dug from the ground or panned from the streams. But when one such attack earns the robbers nothing but a pack of pelts, it sets in motion a chain of events leading to...

The war has been over for two years and Charlie Jefferson is returning home to a changed place. Neighbourliness has been replaced by greed and hostility; the cluster of buildings around Sam Flint's trading post has developed into a small township where gun-carrying saddletramps c...

When drifter Tom Belman's horse is stolen in the Texas panhandle, his pursuit of the young thief leads to an unfriendly reunion with a former soldier in his unit, Lou Currier, now sheriff of the small town of Ortega Point. A subsequent lynching compels Tom to find and return to h...

"Until the night of the fire, Stanton, Montana, was a peaceful town. It boasted a church, a school and a bank, and no longer attracted those hard-riding, hard-drinking characters who brought with them the kind of lawlessness and destruction that had been rife during its earlier f...

Former Union soldier Charlie Jefferson strikes up a friendship with Dave and Henry Willis in Pottersville, Arkansas. The brothers are planning to drive cattle from Texas to the lumber camps of the Arkansas timberland, and invite Charlie to join them. But the scheme falls foul of ...

Cattle baron Nat Erdlatter has built his empire by taking what he wants, then ruthlessly holding on to it. Even now, with the Homestead Act encouraging people to claim their own portions of land, he believes that his needs take precedence over the government's decrees. But times ...

They rode out as the snow began to fall. The seven men were to rescue a band of travellers trapped by an avalanche in the high Bitterroot Mountains. But once clear of the Montana township of Wicker, it's apparent that the on-coming winter blizzards are not the only threat to succ...

Until the night of the fire, Stanton, Montana, was a peaceful town. Its marshal, Silas Tasker, rejoiced in the knowledge that he had rid the town of the kind of rip-roaring reputation attributed to so many other cattle-towns across the west. But in the aftermath of the blaze that...

Since the signing of the Laramie Treaty six years earlier, the tribes of the Plains have practised their nomadic lifestyle within the boundaries of the lands set aside for their use. The dwindling herds of buffalo and deer which provide the staple requirements of their existence ...

Friend to the Sioux, clad in buckskin and wearing an eagle feather, Wes Gray meets with a hostile reception in Palmersville, where rumours of Indian unrest abound. He was summoned to the town by long-time friend Crackaway - and is surprised to learn on his arrival that not only i...

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