William Colt MacDonald

Blazing action with the Texas Rangers. Back cover - "Gun shots roared through the Valley..." Rifles and six-shooters exploded, tearing wide the gloom with brilliant lances of flame. A man cursed, the words choking abruptly in his throat. A horse screamed and fell, tossing its rider to the hoof-churned earth. The whole valley became a part of hell... Gun war had started between the nesters and the cattlemen - a bitter, bloody feud instigated by unscrupulous land operators, a war that could only be settled by the six-gun law of a Texas Ranger. This is a stand alone novel by MacDonald. From Avon T-396 paperback - 191 pages, 1942 copywrite

Hawk Nielson was fast-shooting and ruthless, the most powerful man on the range. His holdings spread over thousands of acres and his power spread from one end of the Mesa to the other. His enemies numbered all the men he had stolen from, cheated and crushed. Vard Whitlock had more reason to hate him than most. Land and money were all Hawk cared about, until his wife bore him a son. His pride almost matched his greed. Now Vard knew how to strike back at the cattle baron; he just had to wait for the right moment. When it came, he kidnapped the baby and hit the trail. Then he settled down to work out the revenge that justice demanded for Hawk Nielson. It took twenty-five years, but when it came, it caused the bitterest fight the men of the Mesa had ever seen.

At their Bar-V C ranch in Arizona, Vance Callister and his wife Anne are found dead. The evidence indicates a murder-suicide and there is excited speculation in Arcanum City. The problem is: Who died firs? If it was Vance, his daughter is disinherited; if Anne died first, her brother and sister lose. Gregory Quist, the famous detective, investigates, to the accompaniment of more shootings and mysterious goings-on, and at last brings the case to its complicated and bloody conclusion.

AKA Fighting Kid From Eldorado. (Blub from cover) - The toughest gun north of the border was laying for him. (Back cover) - Winchester slugs were waiting for him to hit town...Worn and leathery from months in the saddle. The Kid drew rein in out-of-bounds, gun-charged Eldorado....He came for a woman as headstrong as she was beautiful - and to track down the killer who would be lurking - with guns drawn - behind any door in town. This is one of MacDonald's stand alone novels. Fairly predictable but still enjoyable western with values true for the time it was written. copyright 1938 - this information from Avon 865 paperback.

Jake Glendon was dead. It could have been suicide -- but it looked a lot like murder. Either way, it was good news, so no one cared much one way or the other about the details. Folks would dance on his grave. But when the Three Mesquiteers -- Tucson Smith, Lullaby Joslin and Stony Brooke -- rode off after discovering the body, they had no idea that they had actually ridden into one of the toughest cases in their long career of unofficial outlaw-busting. Glendon may have been dead, but his gang was very much alive -- and they had a habit of turning a deputy's badge into a death warrant for any man who wore it. As six-shooters blazed and blood spilled, they vowed to avenge the death of Jake Glendon.

Cattle were mysteriously disappearing from Orejano. There was no trace of the missing cattle, but the superstitious Mexicans told tales of the ghost herds that thundered through Phantom Pass at night. Against this background of mystery, those two hard-riding, gun-slinging pals, Nogales and Caliper, once more saddle-up to trouble.

WANTED - DEAD OR ALIVE! John Cardinal - gray eyes, red hair, six foot tall, 175 pounds.... and "vicious with a fast gun!­" One Thousand Dollars Reward! For the cold-­blooded murder of a U.­S. Marshal! For bank-­robbery! Cattle-­rustling! Stagecoach holdup! Horse-­thieving! And for every other kind of skulduggery known! But for John Cardinal himself, there was one terrible irony - he was innocent of all of those things, but determined to follow a fugitive's trail to a showdown with the false law of a passel of pistol-­toting pursuers.

When cowboy Lance Tolliver stumbles across a dead body, he's caught in a three-way battle among Indians, border bandits, and the law.