Frank Carlson Library

After being framed for a bad accident, Dev Devereaux had been falsely blacklisted as a train wrecker. But he'd set himself a mission to find the person who did it and choke the truth out of him. Now, jaws clamped together, he was riding as a passenger in the engineer's cab of The Limited. They were hurtling through the Wyoming wilderness far beyond Omaha when the engineer noticed a problem with the tracks ahead. Suddenly, Dev heard the engineer yell...

"A collection of short stories. Convicts and cowboys, thieves and tin stars - the Old West was full of them, and the sun never set on a day when some hombre wasn't following a trail to danger or death. Into gunfights and range wars, fiery deserts and freezing mountains - anywhere six-shooters could blaze and life was worth less than a gut full of lead. For fame and freedom, revenge and riches - whatever reason a man needed to risk all he had to claim...

Judge Cowper of Shimmer Creek hires Buck Halliday to take care of a problem. Jason Henley has taken over the town lock, stock and barrel, and now expects every other businessman to pay him protection money. Halliday might have dealt out death before, but he isn't a killer for hire. Still, maybe he can convince Henley that it might be better for his health if he makes dust and heads for someplace else. Trouble is, Henley has more lives than a cat....

"Brodie Pike knew he shouldn't get involved. It would somehow turn out bad, as seemed to happen too often to him, but he couldn't watch four gunmen bully a small-time rancher. The next day, the man he had helped is found beaten to death. Though he knows he is responsible for Dunn's death, he refuses to help the group of small ranchers who know that the Buckskin County Cattlemen's Association will be coming for their land soon. Months later, he reads...

Spargo was a mining town... but there hadn't been any mining there for a while. The mines were in a dangerous condition, and their owner Foley Kingston refused to make improvements. So the miners - those who'd survived the numerous cave-ins and accidents - went on strike, and Kingston called on his old friend Duke Benedict to help him break it. Benedict's partner, big Hank Brazos, immediately sided with the miners. But even though Benedict knew Kingston...

It has been twenty-five years since the notorious gunfight at the O.K. Corral when Wyatt Earp and his wife, Josephine, move to Los Angeles. Bringing eighty-five thousand dollars in cash and gold with them, the reward for a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck. By 1910, they are broke and on the verge of starvation, thanks to insatiable gambling habits and inadequate talents. Now sixty-two, the Old West icon is forced to return to his career...

Drover Sam Hall is accused of cheating at cards by gunslinger J.D. Seldon - and in the ensuing scuffle, both J.D. and Sam's friend Daniel are shot dead. After collecting the $500 bounty on J.D.'s head, Sam sets off in pursuit of Daniel's killer. But J.D.'s half-brother Ben is also bent on revenge, and has issued his own bounty on Sam. With gunslingers and hardcases dogging Sam's every move, there is only one way out of this situation. He must find,...

Gunsights: Together, Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked down Apaches and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they find themselves fierce adversaries in what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining company gun thugs are dead set on running Dana and the "People of the Mountain" from their land. Which of these former friends-turned-foes will triumph in the end? Forty lashes less...

Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack must find Texas Bob Krey, a gambler on the run from a murder charge who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, before bounty hunters and hired guns do. Territorial Judge Bass put up the bounty since it was his brother who was killed, although he was killed in self-defense. Complicating matters, Sheriff's Deputy Price offered his own 'reward,' paid in advance, for Krey's head, because Price was on the losing end of a love...