Relates the story of Jubal Sackett, a wilderness explorer, whose courage and determination to blaze new trails makes him a legend in the wild West.

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion-the good and the bad, before the days of law and order-in these seven stories. In "The Black Rock Coffin Makers," two men in the isolated town of Tucker want the XY ranch: Jim Walker and the ruthless Wing Cary-and one of them wants it badly enough to kill for it. In "Grub Line Rider," Kim Sartain is an easygoing, peace-loving drifter....

When a man has enemies he had best beware, and I, Barnabas Sackett, born of the Fenland and but lately returned from the sea, had enemies I knew not of.

It was Indian country, and when our wheel busted, none of them would stop. They just rolled on by and left us setting there, my pap and me.