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Incident At Powder River

Sat, 12 Sep 2015 01:06:33 +0300

Cord McQueen rides home from Fort Laramie to be met by the sight of three fresh graves on the hillside and a hail of bullets delivered by outlaws occupying the McQueen ranch on the Tongue River. Believing that his parents and young brother have been murdered, he rides to the Bighorn foothills where trapper Pierre Monet lives with his daughter.

Midnight Hawk

Tue, 12 Sep 2017 01:06:31 +0300

Pauite Hawk cat-walked out of the barn into the blazing noon sun, it had taken him six months to recover from being torture. But within days of regaining his feet his sixgun was flaming again having helped horse-rancher Pete Slocombe fight against gunmen hired by land-hungry John Fraser.
Twenty-four hours later, Hawk is in jail accused of murder and Slocombe is powerless against the outlaws. Just when all hope seems lost a dramatic reversal of fortune ends in a bitter gunfight that paints the Kansas moon with blood

The Hunting of Lope Gamboa

Wed, 18 Mar 1998 16:01:39 +0200

Texas Rangers Jack Carson and Eddie Brand have been hunting outlaw Lope Gamboa for some time without success, but when they ride into Yuma it seems their luck has changed. An assignment of US gold is to be transported along the Oxbow route by Conestoga wagon and the Rangers are convinced that Gamboa will attempt to steal the gold. As all factions close in on the lumbering Conestoga wagon, the trail leads inexorably to a bloody climax in the Gila desert...

Brazos Guns

Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:25:30 +0200

Cash-hungry Nate Bannerman, unable to persua de his brother to sell the Lazy B, hires a look-alike killer to murder a young girl. Her half-blind father is the witnes s whose reluctant testimony gets his old friend Bannerman a life sentence. '

Billy Sundown

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 16:01:37 +0200

Billy Sundown, a Cheyenne Indian, was determined to return the young English woman to her home, so he took her from the blood bath that was the battle of Washita. But Billy, white educated, albeit with an Indian's temperament, was up against more than a tough trek to North Texas.

Black Day At Hangdog

Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:25:31 +0200

When exiled bank robber Moses Kane arrives in Haven''s Hangdog Saloon, he is with deadly gunslingers and wanting revenge. Old-timer Gannon smells trouble, Flint is concerned for Gannon, Baxter wants his money, and the Sioux Long Arrow wants Kane.'

Kid Kantrell

Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:25:20 +0300

When Kid Kantrell trails a cold-blooded killer from Indian Territory to the Texas Panhandle, he finds himself caught up in a bloody battle over a fertile valley.

Starlight

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:40:17 +0200

John Guiana is set up and framed for bank robbery and murder. He must confront an enemy he has never met and fight a savage battle that will decide his future.

Bury Him Deep, In Tombstone

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:27:04 +0200

When ex-marshal Morgan Keen got news that hi s son, the Sweetwater Kid, was to hang for murder, his first impulse was to break him out of jail. The only trouble was that the jail was in Tombstone, Arizona, and that meant leav ing his wife alone.

Trouble At Nathan's Ford

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:40:18 +0200

When a planned bank robbery in Drystone City results in the death of the owner's wife, Cage turns his back on lawlessness and heads home. But when he arrives in the border town of Nathan's Ford, he has been followed by his nemesis and rides into tragedy. With his family's ranch burned to the ground, and his parents and brother murdered by Mexican rustlers, Cage - aided by childhood friend Velvet Goodwine and reluctant bank owner Milton Guthrie - sets off in pursuit of the killers. A confrontation with the rustlers leads to the unmasking of the man behind the deaths, and a bloody finale which leaves Cage fighting desperately for his life, and the lives of the only friends he has left.

Outlaw Canyon

Tue, 12 Sep 2017 01:06:32 +0300

Going home is not always as easy as it sounds, as Rafe and Seth Laramie discover when they fall foul of an angry posse. Mistaken for a pair of bank robbers, they are forced to flee a hail of bullets and hide out in the town of Greybull. There, they encounter the enigmatic Mort Sangster and use his cunning to slip away from the posse unseen. But all is not as it seems. When the Laramie brothers follow Sangster to his cabin, they find themselves amongst outlaws who are plotting an elaborate crime. The outlaws invite the brothers into the fold...but what bloody battles lie ahead if they choose to go along for the ride?

The Last Waterhole

Tue, 18 Nov 1997 12:17:34 +0200

When ex-outlaw Bobbie Lee sees a rider approaching
Beattie's Halt he know it means trouble. Hours later his innocent son is gunned down in the saloon and three more hardbitten strangers have joined the gunman called Van Gelderen. But who are they?Two days later a second young man dies and the strangers leave town. But murder cannot go unpunished. Bobbie Lee, Will Blunt and his daughter, Cassie, pick up the trail outside Beattie's Halt. In the scorching heat of the desert old feuds are settled in a six-gun blaze.

The Killing at Circle C

Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:21:56 +0200

The Chicanery of Paco Ibañez

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:55:10 +0200

Marshal Thornton Wilde takes delivery of two prisoners one of whom is the son he hasn't seen for 20 years! Then, just hours later, there is a jail break with the marshal and the town drunk in hot pursuit. Gradually a complicated plot unfolds involving a series of bank robberies and a Mexican peasant with lofty ambitions. Somebody is desperate to keep Wilde and the Texas Rangers away from El Paso but it is there that the amazing truth is revealed and justice meted out.