Frank Carlson Library

Aristotle Scrimshaw had left his wife and children on their small farm in Wisconsin to pick up some cash in the bustling goldfields of Virginia City. He had done well, buying up claims and collecting gold worth more than one hundred thousand dollars. Angelica Ramirez had left her abusive husband to become the most prosperous madam in the territory. And Professor Randolph Figaro, a Mississippi gambler, had struck his own kind of paydirt in Virginia...

Someone was out to get Pace Larrabee. First he was crippled in an ambush, then one of his men was killed. But it didn't stop there. Someone rustled a herd of his horses, stampeded his cattle and threatened to poison his waterholes. This is the tense, exciting story of a man besieged by an invisible enemy; a man who had carved a thriving ranch out of wild, unclaimed land and stood to lose everything if he didn't uncover that enemy. But who could it...

Three Western tales, in which a disinherited son goes on the run; a fraudulent prophet leads his flock astray; and an apparent outlaw is saved by an unlikely rescuer.

Shelby has come to love the Rosita farming and ranching community. Then a Texas cow outfit opens an office there, intending to buy out landowners and create a massive ranch.

Though Dan McQuaid's reputation as a gunfighter spread everywhere, his one wish is to hang up his pistol for keeps. But Cliff Usta tries to trick Dan into taking part in a family feud by offering him a choice piece of land. Then the Patzels - Usta's opponents - user a cruder method to force Dan into taking their side in the family's desperate struggle for gold. Dan knows the Ustas and Patzels are foolish to fight each other. But only after much tragic...

Captain Elmer Tomlinson of the Texas Rangers is confronted with a unique and devastating problem: rustling of livestock is occurring in the Valverde district to an unprecedented degree. He dispatches three Rangers to work under cover in the area, but to lead them Tom wants Cleve Hampshire. Cleve is no longer a Ranger - four years earlier he had been badly injured and resigned. Once he hears about the thousand head of cattle missing, he is anxious...

In Pony, Montana, the reclusive founder of the local bank, Sam Stop must shed his banker's clothing to prevent two powerful eastern financiers from ruining the town and its mining company.

In this Western duo we see one town's citizens bring in a lawman to drive out its gunslinger and outlaws, and a jaded ex-soldier with a serious score to settle.

Jim and Diana Stannard were rendered penniless gentlefolk after the disaster which befell their father's investments. Pressured by mounting debts and maintaining the facade of genteel living, Jim determines to make a fresh start overseas with the last of the family's assets -- his father's old land claims in Canada. Diana, appalled by the prospect of a harsh colonial existence, swears she will not accompany him -- but her foiled theft of her hostess's...