Frank Carlson Library

"It was rough killer country. For months the border had been smoldering with hate. A gold-crazed gang was at work. Mexican was pitted against Texan and the countryside was an inferno of gunfire and bloodshed. Into this snakes' nest rode one man--Walt Slade, Texas Ranger. His mission was to bring justice and peace to the Border. But as the Ranger set out to find the hidden haunt of the vicious bandits, he became marked a target for death."--

Corpus Christi is the most murderous, thieving, God-forsaken hole in the Lone Star State. When Walt Slade rides in, he knows he is setting himself up as a target.

"Walt Slade rides back to Echo, Texas - the scene of a past showdown - to find he must challenge a new and deadlier desperado gang! The safety of the town and Walt Slade's friend hangs in the balance while the greatest of the Texas Rangers meets his match in a hail of bullets on a hellfire range"--Provided by publisher.

"Gold Dust and Blood- a trail that led Ranger Ace Walt Slade straight to the Cap Rock country and a gun-blazing showdown with the craftiest owlhoot in Texas. Tarp Henry was an outlaw jack-of-all-crimes- rustling, murder, train holdups . . . anything that tightened his grip of terror. And when he knew Slade was after him, Henry set his whole gang after the Ranger! Slade drew first blood- but a grim rendezvous was waiting for him on the Doom Trail"--...

Striking where least expected, the outlaw band known as the Faceless Riders have been spreading a trail of terror and death along the Rio Grande, throwing the whole territory into a panic - and the toll from their guns is overflowing Boot Hill. As ace undercover Ranger Walt Slade rides into the Border country, he knows that only one man can rod a gang so ruthlessly - his bitter enemy Veck Sosna, the cleverest, most notorious outlaw he's ever faced,...