When a wealthy cattle baroness hires Joe Buckhorn to track down her son, it sounds like easy money. But when he learns that the boy has run off with a girl--whose father is the leader of the cattle-rustling Riley clan--Buckhorn's only hope is to infiltrate the gang. Gain their trust. Live the outlaw life, even at the risk of death. There's just one problem: there's more than one gang. The Riley girl may have stolen a runaway boy's heart but the other...

When Gloriana Traft came to Arizona to visit her tenderfoot brother Jim, trouble was rampant in Yellow Jacket. The notorious Hash Knife Outfit of rustlers and gunmen were stealing the ranchers' cattle and terrorizing the beautiful valley. But Gloriana, innocent to the brutal ways of the West, wanted to meet a real desperado. And when she did, Gloriana was the frightened captive of the most dangerous killer of the gang, and facing an ordeal that would...

"Luke Davenport has been fighting all his life--for respect, for country, and for those unable to fight for themselves. But now that his Horsemen brothers are domesticated, he's left alone to battle the wildness within. When an opportunity arises to take a job on his own, tracking down a group of rustlers, he jumps at the chance. Damaris Baxter has mastered the art of invisibility. Plain and quiet, she hides in books and needlework, content to be...

"He's the most notorious cattle rustler in all of Texas. His name--Jebediah Cotton--strikes fear into the hearts of every rancher in the territory. So it's more than a little strange that someone would shoot Cotton's youngest son in the back. Whoever did it is either a coward, a fool, or a crazy man. Whoever did it must die. Even if he's a U.S. deputy marshal named Will Tanner... So begins not one, but two of the deadliest manhunts in frontier history....

Jack Bolt, a ruthless killer, and his tough band of men set up a rustling operation and make plans to lure Hopalong Cassidy into an ambush.

"Trueman Rock was a man who used his gun only out of necessity--against cattle rustlers and crooked men. When he returned to Wagontongue, he expected to have a run-in with old enemies, but found they were all dead. They'd been bad hombres and had met with their own kind of justice. What Rock hadn't counted on was running into Ash Preston--a man more vicious and dishonest than any of them. Now he would have to use his gun to save his skin!" -- Page...

"For years, Caleb Marlowe has been following a hard trail. But fate finally seems to be smiling on him. The ranch he and his partner have been building is ready for a herd of longhorns, and a ghost from his troubled past is about to dance at the end of hangman's rope. With winter descending on the Colorado boom town of Elkhorn, Caleb's future looks bright. But in the wild West, a man's fortune can turn with the speed of a mountain storm. When his...

"The completion of a new railroad line from Colorado to Texas is a dream come true for Smoke Jensen and the other ranchers of Big Rock. But this dream turns into their worst nightmare when the first herd they load onto the train is stolen by a vicious gang of kill-crazy rustlers. This is no ordinary train robbery. It's an inferno of slaughter that includes the friendly rancher who volunteered to take Smoke's place on the trip. Now Smoke is saddling...

Tenderfoot Martha Dixon arrives in Wyoming cattle country during an epidemic of cattle rustling. Then one night three men meet and a lone bullet changes everything.

"Traf Kinnard saddled up and rode out after the killers of rancher Tony Braden. Braden had stood up to the rustlers who had been robbing him blind. Now he lay in his own blood at the train station at Indian Bend. A drunken geezer riding the caboose through town was the witness who could make the outlaws hang. He'd be dead too, if they caught up with him. When it came to keeping the old man alive, Traf had a snowball's chance in hell. But he also had...