Over the years, rancher Luke Lilavelt built his Window Sash brand from a podunk operation into a full-fledged cattle empire. But he didn't do it through hard work. He added to his holdings through bloody methods only marginally within the law. And most of those methods were carried out by Dave Wall, Lilavelt's troubleshooter. The work hurt Wall's reputation considerably. But Wall knew it wouldn't hurt as much as Lilavelt revealing the secrets he's...

"Two western stories--'Black Rock Desert' and 'The Desert Rider'--find two young men returning to the towns where their hopes were shattered. Each one finds that past experiences have prepared him to face the challenges waiting for him as he helps expose and stop shady characters"--Provided by publisher.

"When word of the Pony Express being formed reached Clay Roswell in Texas, he decided to get a job as a rider. He was told his best chance for such a job was along the desert stretch in Nevada Territory, so that was where he headed. Along the trail, he met two brothers, Jess and Hoke Pickard, and agreed to team up with them, at least as far as Salt Lake. They made camp one night in Weber Cañon, east of Salt Lake, but as Roswell lay in his blankets,...

Jeff Kennett and his drovers have brought a herd of 2,000 longhorns all the way from Texas to California, believing there is a fortune to be made by transporting the cattle by river boat to San Francisco. The Gold Rush is on and there is a tremendous demand for beef. Kennett has been referred to Captain Bill Ballinger, headquartered in Sacramento, as the man who can best pilot the cattle downriver. But Colonel Nathaniel Sharpe and his partner,...

In Wolf Brand, the ordinarily peaceful River Junction community is divided into factions. The ranchers are divided in their sympathies toward the farmers the railroad promised to sell land to for five dollars an acre and the railroad is now changing the terms of the land settlement, charging the farmers three times the original price. The situation becomes explosive when two railroad marshals are shot. In Doom Patrol, the owners of the J Bar C,...

The job was hard, but Carlin was harder...Dan Brandon was dead--buried under the range he had ruled with an iron hand. Behind him he left the huge cattle empire he had carved out, a son too cowardly to defend it, and a widow who desperately needed help. That was when a lethal loner named Carlin was called in. His job: to stand off the nightriding army of ravagers closing in on the Brandon spread like vultures on a still-warm corpse. A vast cattle...