Wayne D. Overholser Book order (chronological)

Small ranchers in Harmony Oregon are up against it with the price of cattle down and Skull Ranch, owned by a syndicate, trying to buy them out. Dan Riley spends a month trying to find a bank to help them, but he fails. When the editor of The Clarion is shot, the ranchers blame Black Mike Sand, the manager of Skull, in spite of the circumstances of the shooting. As pressure mounts, Riley is determined to find out who is really in charge of the syndicate, and the only man willing to help him is Andrew Daniels, a former newspaper man whose courage comes from a bottle. Ex-gunman Rod Devers has started up a ranch, but small things going wrong on his land make him think someone might be trying to drive him out. In addition, the $2,000 he borrowed to buy his herd is coming due in a few months, and he refuses to marry his fiancée until he's debt free. His brother George ramrods the Spade, the biggest ranch in the area owned by Karl Hermann, who is on his way to Spade. The two-bit ranchers are convinced Hermann is coming to grab up all the land, and they organize a group of vigilantes, the 99, to protect themselves. When Rod refuses to join the 99 and accepts his brother's offer of a temporary job to protect Hermann and his daughter during their visit, the small ranchers turn against him.

Ihr Hunger nach einem Stück Land machte das Leben schwer ... und das Sterben allzu leicht. Der unkonventionelle Mark Manning hatte ein Gespür für Schwierigkeiten, und diesmal lag der Tod in der Luft Colorados. Mit 700 landhungrigen Pionieren, die um die Besiedlung von Indianerterritorium konkurrierten, war das bloße Überleben ein Sieg. Doch Manning würde erleben, wie Schicksale in Feuer und Blut geschmiedet wurden. Der Anspruchsjäger, der bereit war, für einen Morgenacre zu morden, die von den leeren Worten des weißen Mannes verratenen Ute-Krieger und das junge Mädchen, dessen Liebe Manning sein Leben riskieren ließ – das waren die Tapferen, die Gebrochenen und die Unerschrockenen, die ihren Stand im LAND DER VERSPRECHUNGEN hielten. Wenn es um Geschichten geht, die so lebendig sind, dass sie den Duft des Lagerfeuers, das Echo von Schüssen und den ungezähmten Geist des Westens zu tragen scheinen, sticht ein Geschichtenerzähler hervor: Wayne D. Overholser.