William Colt MacDonald
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"Jeff Deming returned to the Rocking-D Ranch after four years of college, hoping for the chance to implement some of the ideas he was sure would improve the ranch. But John Deming felt a man should prove himself first and had Jeff working like a hired hand. Jeff was quickly getting back in shape, but was still receiving a lot of "kidding" and the worst came from the foreman, Quinn Barker. Jeff had to admit he didn't like Barker, but his father swore...
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
El Gato had murdered Stantiago's wife, imprisoned his son and daughter, and destroyed his reputation. Now El Gato was a corned rat and Santiago was ready...the whips had been made for a death duel, just long enough, and strong enough, to curl around a man's neck and crack it.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"He was Peaceful all right. He didn't have to lift a finger - trouble just came to him as though drawn by a magnet. And when he and Applejack rode along the trail to Spanish Wells, trouble came to meet them, halfway. Four weeks earlier in Spanish Wells, rancher Jabez Drake had emerged from the town's bank carrying a small money sack that bulged on the sides when a masked man brandishing a long-barreled six-shooter had appeared. Drake had gone for...
Author
Pub. Date
c1934
Description
"The gang called themselves the Scorpions, and when they struck, they were as swift, silent and fatal as the vicious animals that inspired their name. They would loot and kill with abandon as they rode through Texas, and return with their ill-gotten booty to a hideout in Mexico. No one had ever dared to stop their lawless rampages, but their luck was running out. Tucson Smith was an easygoing sort -- slow-talking and not easily riled. He didn't make...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Gregory Quist, man-hunter extraordinaire, was in Masquerade City to investigate a train wreck and a robbery, when two young wildcats -- Ramon and Chris -- sidetrack him with a tale of murder. Their boss, Reed Haldane, had been found dead in his bed the day Quist arrived. The sheriff said it was suicide, but Ramon, Chris, and Haldane's lovely daughter thought differently. There was a man in town who had been threatening to get Haldane for twenty years....
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Winghorse was a wide-open town where gun law was the only law-- and where Reece Rudabaugh's fast, highly-paid gunslingers had formed a welcoming committee, ready at a moment's notice to blast anyone who dared to defy their land-hungry boss. Andy Farlow looked like just a saddle-weary, shiftless Texas ramrod when he rode into Winghorse. But he was a man with a mission, and he wasn't about to let anyone stop him from finding the 100,000 Spanish pesos...
10) Ghost-town gold
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Tucson Smith was outnumbered. His little band of four gunfighters was holed up in a ramshackle ghost-town hotel ... waiting. Dirk Barrington and his dozen henchmen set up camp at the Blue Bird across the street and down a way from the hotel. Somewhere hidden in this dead town was a hidden cache of gold ... and both sides were ready to die for it"--Provided by publisher.
12) Lightning swift
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Chuck Jenkins was in trouble. Framed into a fight and then thrown into jail, he had only a few more days to raise the money to pay for his T-Bench ranch or forfeit it to Craig Kimball and Fisher Cochrane. There was nothing to do but call on his old friend Lightning Swift for help"--
13) The red raider
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Gun Fog: A penniless young cowboy named Jerry Knight, after losing in a big-money poker game, must work off his debt at the Circle F ranch where he is framed for murder.
Red raider: Old Dad Flint sets out to avenge his son's murder, but the confrontation takes place in the desert where the murderer is accompanied by a band of renegade Apaches.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A few hours after he had a violent argument with the railroad's lawyer, tough rancher Wyatt Kearsage was dead! Two days later, quick-drawing, smart-thinking Gregory Quist ran headlong into trouble when he started to investigate the murder of the man who had refused the railroad passage through his ranch. Heads were smashed and guns thundered as Quist tangled with the railroad's lawyer, beat up the belligerent saloon keeper, played cat-and-mouse with...
Author
Pub. Date
2010, c1949
Description
Jake Glendon was dead. It could have been suicide -- but it looked a lot like murder. Either way, it was good news, so no one cared much one way or the other about the details. Folks would dance on his grave. But when the Three Mesquiteers -- Tucson Smith, Lullaby Joslin and Stony Brooke -- rode off after discovering the body, they had no idea that they had actually ridden into one of the toughest cases in their long career of unofficial outlaw-busting....
Author
Pub. Date
c1947
Description
Hawk Nielson was quick-on-the-draw, ruthless -- and the most powerful man on the range. His holdings spread over thousands of acres and his power spread from one end of the Mesa to the other. His enemies were plenty -- all those he had cheated and crushed. Vard Whitlock had more reason to hate him than most. Land and money were the things Hawk cared about, until he had a son. Then his pride almost matched his greed. At last, Vard knew how to strike...