"Del Rowland, working for Bill Overlin at the Spoke ranch, begins to doubt the boss's integrity when Overlin and others bully a homesteader named Holt Warren and goad him into a fatal gunfight. Del's curiosity increases as he gets to know Overlin's stepdaughter, Lawna, and hears ...
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"This is a collection of a dozen Western stories in which people ride into danger and draw upon their own fortitude to get out---men and women, guns and horses, wrongdoing and justice. It includes the award-winning story "Return to Laurel," which was a finalist for the Western Wr...
Elwood Lawrence -- top hand at the Crown Butte ranch -- tries to find out where the cattle are disappearing to. It looks like an inside job. His work becomes complicated when he develops an interest in a woman who comes to visit the ranch and behind it all is the disappearance of...
"Reese Hartley has come to Wyoming to settle on his own land. But his cattleman boss expects his hired men to turn their homestead claims over to him. Hartley resists and is let go. He meets a woman named Muriel. She has come west to look for land, but her cousins want to exploit...
"The Spoilt Quilt and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features sixteen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier through the early 1900s and feature ...
Dunbar, working on a ranch in the Niobrara country in Wyoming, connects the death of a hardscrabble homesteader with the death of an old horse trader some fifteen years earlier. As Dunbar goes to work on a corral project in town and then on fall roundup, more murders take place--...
"Lawrence Orme, who has left his work as a professor, comes to the countryside of Wyoming, only to find the body of a young man. He attends a meeting in town in which one of his neighbors is running for public office. Before long, this neighbor is found dead. Lawrence finds out t...
Dunbar, working on a ranch in the Niobrara country in Wyoming, connects the death of a hardscrabble homesteader with the death of an old horse trader some fifteen years earlier. As Dunbar goes to work on a corral project in town and then on fall roundup, more murders take place--...
Double deceit: A man named Dunbar comes to Temple Basin where he goes to work for an old rancher who is laid up with a broken leg. The rancher's granddaughter tells the story. After one man turns up dead and another man is known to have gone missing, it becomes known that Dunbar ...
"Elwood Lawrence -- top hand at the Crown Butte ranch -- tries to find out where the cattle are disappearing to. It looks like an inside job. His work becomes complicated when he develops an interest in a woman who comes to visit the ranch and behind it all is the disappearance o...
In 1890s Wyoming, seventeen-year-old Alden Clare assumes the responsibility of earning enough money to buy back his family's foreclosed land, taking care of his older brother's family, and helping the attractive daughter of a homesteader who is being harassed by ruffians.
"From the enigmatic reflections of a down-and-out fella questioning the choices he's made to an action-packed expedition in the wild expanses of the Old West, each story paints a vivid portrait of the American frontier's enduring heart. Readers will navigate the steamy bayou as a...
"Jord Blaine, one of the riders for the Skull outfit, falls out of favour with the foreman and goes to work for a rancher named Carlson, building a fence with a young man named Jimmy Baker. Blaine and Jimmy finish the job and go their separate ways. Blaine finds work with an outf...
"A sensitive artist in search of solitude, Devon Frost has come to the isolated Mexican-American locality of Tinaja to sketch crumbling adobe ruins from an older time. But trouble comes when the suitor of a powerful landholder's stepdaughter is found murdered. Another of the youn...
In Wyoming, cowboy Clay Westbrook goes to the rescue of a Mexican shepherd being beaten by an influential landowner. So begins a one-man crusade to combat land grabs against the background of the discord between Anglo and Hispanic cultures in the West.
With a lot of rustling in the area, tensions are high and rumors are flying. Word's going around that some of the larger ranchers have hired gunman Wolf Carlton to protect their cattle. And now a couple of the smaller ranchers have been found shot to death. Unfortunately for Spen...