Salem Hardesty was on the move. Ever since his boys had been attacked by the Sioux, Salem suspected Rafe Perrine of smuggling guns to the Indians. Now &; with Glenna&;s father gone &; he was sure. Salem wanted Perrine and his gang of rustlers &; and he wanted them dead.
The Kid wasn't quite sixteen, but he had led the hard kind of range life that makes a boy grow up fast. Even though the Kid could see trouble sticking out of Chalk Daggett like the spines on a poison cactus, he was happy at the Flat Iron Range. With cowboy Grady Roberts for his idol, and with Big Elmer the cook for a friend, life was happier than ever before.
"After fifteen years as foreman of the Hamlin Ranch, Fent Crocker has begun to think of the ranch as his. When Hamlin's only daughter, Fox, begin showing interest in cowhand Race Cullyer, Fent determines to do whatever it takes to remove this threat to his plans--even start a range war"--
"Deputy Marshal Dick Marr in Northern Oklahoma has his work cut out for him when the girl he loves joins up with outlaw Britt Morgan and his gang"--
Tom Yancy was the eighth person to go out in gunsmoke as murder multiplied in the gold-rush town of Rock Creek. Maybe Yancy knew who was fingering the lucky prospectors in the diggin’s at Rustlers’ Bend. Maybe he aimed to tell who was running cattle off the ranches around Rock Creek. But he wasn’t going to be identifying anyone now.It was Sheriff Kize Farraday’s guess that one gang of blacklegs was responsible for all the killings and rustling, and that someone well-known and trusted in the community was in on it and feeding them information. But hunches weren’t enough. He needed proof. He had hoped Yancy would give him the information he needed, but Yancy was dead now and Farraday was reminded that dead men don’t talk and warned that goes for dead sheriffs, too.When Sheriff Farraday appears to be closing in on the true culprits, he becomes a marked man. How many more will give their lives before the guilty are brought to justice?