Jim Gary is heading to work for Mart Ray, the foreman for the Double A Ranch, when he comes upon an outfit moving cattle marked with the Double A brand in "Man Riding West." Jim Sandifer knows he'll lose his job at the B Bar Ranch as well as the girl he's sweet on when he prevents a raid by some B Bar men on the Katrischen spread in "The Turkeyfeather Riders." In "Four Card Draw," Allen Ring wins a small ranch -- until the town marshal shows up and...

A trio of Western stories by Louis L'Amour

In "Black Rock," Jim Gatlin, a Texas trail driver, arrives in the town of Tucker where he finds himself quickly drawn into the middle of an all-out battle for the XY Ranch when, due to a case of mistaken identity, he kills the segundo of Wing Cary's Flying C Ranch. Gatlin is a dead-ringer for Jim Walker, who, like Cary, wants control of the XY. Gatlin is thrown into a situation in which all he can

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Although Rafe Caradec is working to preserve a Long Valley ranch for a dead man's wife and daughter, the daughter's doubt plays right in to the hands of the crooked ranchers plotting to destroy her.

In 1844, nobody believed there wqas gold in California except the Mulkerins and an old Native American with mystical powers. The Mulkerins needed a treasure to settle the debt on their ranch. They are in search of gold, with a greedy band of cutthroats riding hard on their trail.

He was educated by life and bound to the land he loved. Then beautiful Angelina Foley came up from Texas with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and an old Spanish grant to Radigan's land. Radigan reasoned with them, stood up to them, and when they tried to drive him from his home he fought back, determined to make his enemies taste the bitterness of their greed, their stupidity -- and their blood.

"Matagorda. Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States, then tested his skills in the frontier army. Now he's settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery--and finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and a neighboring family. But the danger from outside is nothing compared to the threat within, as Duvarney suspects Kittery's woman isn't all she appears to be. Tap may have...