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Action and adventure from the best western authors!
FEBRUARY 2012
Max Brand®
Peter Dawson
Peter B. Kyne
The Survival of Juan Oro
Angel Peak: Western Stories
Lord of Lonely Valley
He had been raised by Yaqui Indians, and as a youth was captured in a battle by the men of Don José Fontana, a wealthy Spanish grandee in northern Mexico. The don is advised to apprentice him to the notorious outlaw, Matiás Bordi, who had a long-standing truce with the Fontana estate. Who better to turn Juan Oro into the surest shot and the greatest lover of battle?
Seven stories are collected here, reflecting the soul of the American West. In The Sweetest Draw, a newly sworn deputy sheriff faces estrangement from the woman he loves. The moral dilemma of every frontier doctor treating a wanted man comes to life in Bullet Cure. And in The Echo Herd, Jim Rush is left for dead in the wars between ranchers and rustlers. Plus four more stories.
Ray Lanier was broke and mortgaged to the hilt, yet he was still lord of the Lonely Valley who rode as king over vast ranchlands. When Milo Landrum learned that there was half a million dollars worth of water rights on Ray’s ranch, he orchestrated a scheme to claim some of it for himself.
isbn: 978 14458 81409
272 pp
isbn: 978 14458 81423
256 pp
Bennett Foster
Lincoln’s Ransom
The Mexican Saddle
It was regarded by many as the crime of the century: in July 1876, the corpse of President Abraham Lincoln was stolen and held for ransom. As a nationwide pursuit is launched, the train on which the body is being secretly transported is held up by the James gang! Based on an historical occurrence, Lincoln’s Ransom is an incredible story of intrigue, suspense, and even romance.
Jim Barre and Waco Ibolt decide to take the winter months off. But that’s before they get to celebrating and find themselves left with only a hundred dollars. And then Jim lends that to another former hand, Dale Clark, who leaves an old Mexican saddle with Waco Ibolt as security. The next day Dale’s murdered body is found, and Jim and Waco are asked to come to the inquest.
288 pp
isbn: 978 14458 81430
304 pp
Lee E. Wells
Gun for Sale
Tim Champlin
isbn: 978 14458 81416
isbn: 978 14458 81447
Clay Manning might have ridden out of Morala Valley the day he rode in, but three people kept him there. Latigo Dolan – his men held Manning down while Latigo beat him unmercifully. Dan Archer – he owned the lion’s share of the valley, and tried to dictate to Manning. Lora Archer – the fiery-haired, fiery-spirited daughter of the cattle king challenged Manning to resist her father. And then a flash of gunfire changed his mind! isbn: 978 14458 81461
176 pp
208 pp
MARCH 2012
Walt Coburn
Robert Easton
Louis L’Amour, edited by Jon Tuska
The Secret of Crutcher’s Cabin: A Western Trio
To Find a Place: Western Stories
Glory Riders: A Western Sextet
Quick and the Cat is the tale of a bounty hunter named Quick, hunting in the Hurricane Deck country. In a poignant tale of modern ranch life, Nobody Danced recounts a confrontation between two men at a town dance. The Legend of Shorm is set on an old California rancho during a terrible drought.
A collection of six of L’Amour’s finest Western stories. The texts have been restored according to how they first appeared in their initial publication in magazines. The stories in Glory Riders demonstrate why Louis L’Amour is one of the world’s bestselling authors.
Three of Walt Coburn’s finest short novels which capture the West as it was. Don of the Black Serape tells the story of a young American who served in Pancho Villa’s gringo battalion. Señor Satán is the story of whiskey-running and drugsmuggling to the United States. The title story is set on Coburn’s home ground of Montana, where a young boy’s rustler father has been killed by cattlemen. isbn: 978 14458 81478
288 pp
Jane Candia Coleman
The O’keefe Empire This is the story of an extraordinary trail drive. Alex O’Keefe left Texas with Scotsman John McLeod, who had fired him up with dreams of an empire and millions of acres for the taking. Not wanting to be left behind, Joanna O’Keefe sells the family holdings and boards a train to join him. isbn: 978 14458 81485
256 pp
isbn: 978 14458 81492
208pp
T. V. Olsen
Arthur Henry Gooden
The Lost Colony
Roaring River Range Poco Gato, jogging through the shimmering midday heat to the town of Roaring River, is rudely shaken when he runs into a group of Double Star men. All Poco’s protests that he has nothing to do with the famous rustler Ringo are in vain – the Double Star men are out for a hanging, and it is easy enough to attach the label of ‘low-down cowthief’ on him. isbn: 978 14458 81508
isbn: 978 14458 81515
192 pp
192 pp
1934. Sir Wilbur Tennnington has been in India, studying the text of the Rig Veda. He realises that the constellations described can only be seen from the Arctic, and develops the conviction that the civilisation that invaded what was to become Europe still exists, north of Ellesmere Island. He calls together his group and they press northward, across an Arctic desert of frigid sand. To their consternation, they find they are not alone in the land where the Midnight Sun never sets . . . isbn: 978 14458 81522
320 pp
Cliff Farrell
Lauran Paine
Massacre Canyon
Desperate Journey
One by one, men rode into the canyon’s mouth – rode to a strange and fiendish death. Others rode in to save them but they, too, never came back. Soon no man dared make the suicide ride. This was the sinister peril Jim Hatfield faced on his undercover mission at Massacre Canyon: Hatfield stood alone between Texas justice and a madman’s schemes to enslave the Border country.
A collection of Western stories that capture the bold dreams, intense passions, and harsh realities of the lives of the men and women who sought their destiny across a landscape unlike any other in the world. Among them is River Ambush, where a young man coming of age in a frontier settlement on the Ohio River meets an extraordinary woman on a flatboat of settlers seeking new land.
Man Without a Gun: A Western Duo
isbn: 978 14458 86886
144 pp
isbn: 978 14458 86954
272 pp
isbn: 978 14458 86985
Allan Vaughan Elston
E. E. Halleran
Hit the Saddle
Outlaws of Empty Poke
Craig Harlan was a city man and he hated the West. But his father, who had struck it rich on the old frontier, was determined to change that. His will left Craig only one asset, a ranch. At first despised as a tenderfoot, Craig had to buck the schemes of men who tabbed him an easy mark.
The troubles of Jack Vicker, trouble-shooting investigator for the Pacific Mining and Smelting Company, were just beginning. Pursued by bandits into the town of Tombstone for a rendezvous with his boss, Vicker is forced to kill. From that point on, killing and violence assail the agent at every turn.
isbn: 978 14458 86947
224 pp
isbn: 978 14458 86961
The Crescent Star refers to a mark on the infamous Gila River Kid. That mark is the only thing known about him. No one knows that he has gone straight and runs a cattle ranch under the name Sadler Carrel. In the title story, Jack Swift has served his sentence for horse stealing and leaves prison with a warning that it’s illegal for a former convict to wear a gun. 240 pp
William MacLeod Raine
192 pp
Fighting Tenderfoot Young Lawyer O’Hara becomes involved in a war between two cattle titans, Wesley Steelman and Dave Ingram. Among the mercenaries, the most notorious is 18-year-old Bob Quantrell. Cheerful and fearless, but a cold-blooded killer, Quantrell is loyal only to his own lightning-fast six-gun. isbn: 978 14458 87333
192 pp
Wade Everett
Roe Richmond
Canyon Rattlers
Fort Starke
The Wild Breed
Black Desmond was a swashbuckling, dashing figure – one of the most brutal and murderous the Southwest had ever known. Now he has transferred his rustling, robbing, and killing operations to a sparsely settled area of Montana. And it’s there that he meets his match in Sheriff Wyster and his posse.
The fort was cut off and outside the Apaches waited. Two patrols had been wiped out, a third was missing, and the telegraph was down. Death lay in wait outside Fort Starke and inside men and women waited . . . a living island of hates, fears, loves and laughter. But living for how long?
Though he could ride with the best of men, no one in the Ontawee Valley would hire a Metheny, and Curt Metheny knew it. Curt was boxed in by the hatred and vengeance of a town that saw in him the same villainy that had driven his father to ruin. Curt knew that soon he’d have to come crashing out and give all Holly Town a smashing it would never forget.
160 pp
isbn: 978 14458 87258
Bliss Lomax
H. A. DeRosso
Riders of the Buffalo Grass
Riders of the Shadowlands The collection opens with Killer, the story of a retired sheriff and the code of honour that drives him into a showdown with an escaped convict. In The Ways of Vengeance things take an unusual turn thanks to an old man and a little girl. One of DeRosso’s few departures from his favourite settings can be found in Endless Trail, which takes place in Alaska at the time of the Gold Rush. These and more spellbinding stories are gathered here. isbn: 978 14458 87197
isbn: 978 14458 87210
256 pp
240 pp
Gordon Young
The Denver & Pacific’s track layers dodged snipers’ bullets daily. The camp was hit by one night raid after another. Dynamite took its deadly toll. Summoned into action, range detectives Rainbow Ripley and Grumpy Gibbs found out that Ben Slade and his gunmen were spearheading these attacks. But Slade was only earning his pay at one trade he’d ever learned. Who was supplying him with funds? Who was giving him the orders? It was up to Rainbow and Grumpy to find the answers. isbn: 978 14458 87234
224 pp
192 pp
Tall in the Saddle Ken Rocklin’s trade was cattle. He was a top hand at riding and roping and he’d read many a fading brand on the run. Rocklin arrives at the K C Ranch in Santa Inez to become its foreman, but then he finds that the owner of the ranch has been killed. Tall in the Saddle, a rousing Western, was made into a film and had an all-star cast including John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond and Gabby Hayes. isbn: 978 14458 87265
368 pp
MAY 2012
Eli Colter
isbn: 978 14458 87173
APRIL 2012
Jackson Cole
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FEBRUARY 2012 ..........Max Brand® ..........Tim Champlin ..........Peter Dawson ..........Bennett Foster ..........Peter B. Kyne ..........Lee E. Wells
The Survival of Juan Oro Lincoln’s Ransom Angel Peak The Mexican Saddle Lord of Lonely Valley Gun for Sale
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MARCH 2012 ..........Walt Coburn ..........Jane Candia Coleman ..........Robert Easton ..........Arthur Henry Gooden ..........Louis L’Amour ..........T. V. Olsen
The Secret of Crutcher’s Cabin 978 14458 81478 The O’keefe Empire 978 14458 81485 To Find a Place 978 14458 81492 Roaring River Range 978 14458 81508 Glory Riders 978 14458 81515 The Lost Colony 978 14458 81522
APRIL 2012 ..........Jackson Cole Massacre Canyon ..........Allan Vaughan Elston Hit The Saddle ..........Cliff Farrell Desperate Journey ..........E. E. Halleran Outlaws of Empty Poke ..........Lauran Paine Man Without a Gun ..........William MacLeod Raine Fighting Tenderfoot
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Valley of Outlaws
978 14458 56681
..........Bill Brooks
The Badmen
978 14458 56735
..........Giff Cheshire
Renegade River
978 14458 56711
..........Walt Coburn
Coffin Ranch
978 14458 56834
..........Phyllis de la Garza
Bounty Hunter’s Daughter
978 14458 56667
..........Wade Everett
The Warrior
978 14458 56810
..........Cliff Farrell
The Lean Rider
978 14458 56803
..........T. T. Flynn
Death Marks Time in Trampas 978 14458 56773
..........Arthur Henry Gooden
The Boss of Santa Ysabel
..........Zane Grey
Woman of the Frontier
978 14458 56728 978 14458 56674
..........Fred Grove
Man on a Red Horse
978 14458 56896
..........Cynthia Haseloff
Satanta’s Woman
978 14458 56698
..........Ernest Haycox
New Hope
978 14458 56827
..........Charles N. Heckelmann Hell in His Holsters
978 14458 56872
..........Ray Hogan
978 14458 56841
Outlawed
..........Robert J. Horton
The Spectacular Kid
978 14458 56704
..........Louis L’Amour
The Man From Battle Flat
978 14458 56889
..........Bliss Lomax
The Lost Buckaro
978 14458 56797
..........T. V. Olsen
A Killer is Waiting
978 14458 56858
..........Lewis B. Patten
Death Rides the Denver Stage 978 14458 56759
..........Roe Richmond
Mojave Guns
..........Les Savage Jr.
Phantoms in the Night
978 14458 56766
..........William Vance
Outlaw Brand
978 14458 56865
..........Cherry Wilson
The Throwback
978 14458 56742
978 14458 56780
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