William MacLeod Raine

An overview of the geography, history, people, and customs of the second coldest state in the nation.

Includes material on Dodge City; Henry A. Crabbe; the Earp brothers and Tombstone, Arizona; the Lincoln County war, Billy the Kid, and Pat Garrett; and the Graham-Tewksbury Pleasant Valley feud; and John Wesley Hardin.

"Bob Webb had served seven years of a twenty year sentence in the Yuma prison when he managed to escape and return to the Tucson area to bring justice to the men who had killed his father, robbed his mother, and framed him for murder"--

"You're on your way to hell!" The outlaw Roush brothers whirled from the bar at the sound of the harsh voice. What they saw was a kid not yet eighteen - but what a kid! He was Jimmy Clanton, a tough rawhider who had notched his first killing two years before. "What do you want with us?" growled Dave Roush. His brother Hugh moved slowly along the bar. The kid, hands propped on his hips, watched quietly. "I'm here to settle for what you two did to my sister," he said finally. The Roush brotheres exchanged glances. Then their hands dropped to their black .44s and gun thunder churned savagely through the saloon...

Jack comes to a small town where the clintons who arranged his father's murder hold sway. He attempts to identify and punish the killers though he knows it is not easy to actually achieve a penal term for anyone involved

Raines sweeps across the West relating the stories of lawmen, outlaws and other frontiersmen with guns including Ben Thompson, Tom Smith, Billy the Kid, Billy Dixon, Butch Cassidy, King Fisher, Jesse James, Wild Bill HickokBurt Mossman, Kid Curray, Dallas Stoudenmire, and countless others.

Young Lawyer O'Hara gets an auspicious welcome to the town of Concho--a bullet through his hat, and before he has a chance to put up a shingle, he becomes involved in a bloody war between two cattle titans, Wesley Steelman and David Ingram. It is war without quarter, and among the two gun mercenaries employed by both sides, the most notorious is eighteen-year-old Bob Quantrell. Cheerful and fearless, but a cold-blooded killer, Quantrell is loyal only to his own lightning-fast six-gun. O'Hara learns quickly that Colt and Winchester are the only law in Concho.