Danny Logan was a young man with only one thing on his mind -- revenge! Ten years earlier he and his father had ridden into a wild, untamed Laramie, and inside of a week his father was dead, murdered by the outlaw Moyer gang.
"Death or cowardice? Randy Harker had no choice. He wanted to stay in Lander and shoot it out with Thatcher. If he left, he would carry the yellow brand of a coward till he cashed in his chips. But out in the hills was an old man being tortured for the secret he held -- the whereabouts of a fortune in stolen greenbacks. Between Randy and the old man were a gang of owl-hoots and a half-breed gunny hired to shoot Randy on sight. There was only one way out. If Randy could gun down the hardcases who were after him and reach the old man and the cache before sundown, he would still have time to match bullets with Thatcher"-- Provided by publisher
As vigilantes tightened the rope around George Parrott's neck, they gave him one last chance to identify his confederates in the holdup of the U.P. pay train that had taken place two years earlier. "Jack Campbell," he gasped. "Jack Campbell and Homer Hatch!" Jack Campbell lay dead by the gun in nearby Montana. But Homer Hatch, under another name, had been living among them for the past year or more. Of the several hundred inhabitants of Rawlins, Hatch could be any one of seven men. It was up to Sheriff Jim Rankin and his trusty deputy, Kim Sallee, to find out which - before Hatch's gun once more chattered out its chilling message of death
A rip-roaring, action-packed, western classic, back in print for the first time in over 70 years. "A splendid historical novel of the old Santa Fe trail and the coming of the railroad." Los Angeles Daily News Ex-buffalo hunter and former lawman Kirk Calloway is searching for a woman he briefly met on the trail in Kansas...a romantic quest that takes him into a violent corner of New Mexico, where the railroad has brought in rustlers, bushwhackers, spoilers, cowpunchers and cattlemen all hoping to find their fortune amidst by the sweat, tears and bloodshed of the savage, crimson mesas. And it's where Alfredo Baca, the fearless young aristocrat and cattleman, wears the lawman's badge and thrives perilously on the risk and danger...and will either become Calloway's friend or deadly enemy. "A less skillful writer would lose readers by the number of interesting characters in this epic, but Elston makes you feel that you know every one of them. An 'A' western." Los Angeles Daily News
Somewhere on a God-forsaken, dusty ranch is a lost billfold containing $60,000...in this western classic, back in print for the first time in 80 years. The money belonged Stan Cogswell, but a swindler named Milt Prowers tricked him out of it... then someone stole it from the Prowers...and then the thief lost it among the brambles on the endless mesa. If Stan doesn't find it, he'll lose his ranch...but he's got to battle a horde of treasure hunters who are willing to kill for it. Allan Vaughan Elston (1887-1976) was an incredibly prolific author of western short stories and novels. His work also included episodes of the anthology TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Schlitz Playhouse of the Stars