The town marshal of Beaumont was in the habit of advising its &;After dark, walk in the middle of the street and tote guns. And tote &;em in your hands, not on your hips, so everybody can see you&;re loaded.&; It was advice worth heeding, for Beaumont was a wild and woolly town. Spindletop was in; and roughs, toughs, petty thieves, gamblers, soldiers of fortune and professional gunslingers rubbed elbows and took advantage of the oil strike.
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"After shooting Cal Taylor over a card game, Ran Hollis runs for his life, but stops to help others fight against injustices in the American West and in Mexico"--
"Knight of the Silver Star" marks the advent of Walt Slade, a Ranger who works almost exclusively undercover and whose reputation is suspect by most lawmen who regard him as an outlaw. In "Terror Stalks the Border," Texas Ranger Jim Hatfield finds himself pitted against a vicious criminal organization that, in addition to robberies, has left in its wake several brutal victims of murder who were tortured first. This organization is led by a mysterious figure known only as The Rider. No one has ever seen his face.