In "Mistakes Can Kill You," we meet Johnny O'Day, who has had to make his way in a man's world since he was a boy. Half dead from pneumonia, Joe Redlin and his wife took him in. Their natural son, Sam, harbored plenty of resentment toward the kid. But now, Sam's in big trouble, and Johnny may be the only person who can come between him and a pair of gunmen. Twenty-seven, broke, and armed, Ross Haney is "The Rider of Ruby Hills." Ross thinks he might...

Amos McCarthy has owned and operated the Rafter M Ranch for at least thirty years in the upland ranges of Wyoming. In the beginning, renegade Indian bands had harassed him. Amos gained a fearsome reputation as a rancher who would tolerate no depredation. He even became skilled at prowling Indian-style at night, killing unsuspecting predators with a knife. Later came rustlers and Amos dealt with them in the same way, hanging those who survived his...

"Bounty hunter Badger Kershaw responds to a plea from his former Civil War commanding officer, Colonel Benjamin Grierson, to rescue Grierson's daughter and three other women seized in a train robbery and being held in a fortified outlaw camp in no man's land--a mission he chooses to do alone"--

"In three western stories, men risk their hero status in the community in order for truth to prevail"--

"Panguitch was king of the wild mustangs. A magnificent stallion the color of a lion, except for his black mane and tail, he had been unsuccessfully sought for years by a number of horse hunters. Chane Weymer could hardly believe that the Paiute Chief, Toddy Nokin, had confided in him -- a white man -- that Panguitch and his herd were on Wild Horse Mesa in Utah. How could a herd of horses be on the insurmountable mesa? Chane buys horses from the Paiute...

"In Texas at the close of the Civil War wagon boss Adam Rait inherits a wagon train of rifles and ammunition when the owner is murdered. He must protect the cargo from several parties who would just as soon take it by force as pay for it while dealing with Angela de Acera (the Steel Angel)"--

"Two western stories: 'The Trail to Peach Meadow Canon' finds Mike Bastian in a struggle for leadership of an outlaw gang but he's not even sure he wants to be an outlaw. 'The Trail to Crazy Man' finds Rafe Caradec fighting to fulfill his promise to a dying shanghaied rancher despite strong opposition"--

"A former Pinkerton detective and his Hispanic ranch foreman cross into Mexico to rescue the son of an army buddy, an apprentice photographer who was captured by Pancho Villa and his army during a cross border raid" --