Gunsmoke Westerns

King Malory's entry into San Lucas was an unusual if not impressive one. He left the stagecoach for the jail, accused of cattle-rustling--but it wasn't long before he had broken out of captivity. With all the forces of the law against him, King Malory brought to light certain facts which some of the most powerful and respected members of local society would rather have left undiscovered.

Yancey was the eighth to go out in gunsmoke as murder multiplied in the gold-rush town of Rock Creek. Maybe Yancey knew who was fingering the lucky prospectors in the diggin's at Rustlers' Bend. It was Sheriff Kize Farraday's guess that one gang of blacklegs was responsible, and he, too, had to die to prove his hunch. But his daughter Iris and hard-riding deputy Jim Lord took up the bloody trail and put their lives on the line for vengeance.

Dave Flood wanted to make good. He liked being ramrod for Tom Raines's Chevron ranch--and he liked Tom's beautiful niece, Nell, even better. Everything was going fine until Bill Calloway, Nap Rickard, and Ed Trotter crossed his path. These three outlaws knew Dave from the days when he had run with them, and Dave knew that he wouldn't be able to hide his past any longer.

From the book:What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window. It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant clatter of an L train and then the hum of a motor car. A hurdy-gurdy jarred into the interval of quiet. Glenn has been gone over a year, she mused, "three months over a year-and of all his strange letters this seems the strangest yet." She lived again, for the thousandth time, the last moments she had spent with him. It had been on New-Year's Eve, 1918. They had called upon friends who were staying at the McAlpin, in a suite on the twenty-first floor overlooking Broadway. And when the last quarter hour of that eventful and tragic year began slowly to pass with the low swell of whistles and bells, Carley's friends had discreetly left her alone with her lover, at the open window, to watch and hear the old year out, the new year in. Glenn Kilbourne had returned from France early that fall, shell-shocked and gassed, and otherwise incapacitated for service in the army-a wreck of his former sterling self and in many unaccountable ways a stranger to her. Cold, silent, haunted by something, he had made her miserable with his aloofness. But as the bells began to ring out the year that had been his ruin Glenn had drawn her close, tenderly, passionately, and yet strangely, too.

When Logan Huett discovers the magnificent Sycamore Cañon in central Arizona, he wires back East to the woman he had courted in Missouri, proposing marriage. Lucinda Baker, a schoolteacher, accepts. But pioneering life proves very hard for her. The dangers are many and constant. But, despite the hardships, despite the dangers, Lucinda remains strong. She is determined to not only endure, but to triumph.

When Jim Chaine, owner of the Bar Chaine Ranch, was murdered, his son, Ross, was sent to live with an aunt. Shortly afterwards, Buel Patchen, manager of the Flying A Ranch, built a large dam in the valley, turning Alamos into a ghost town and destroying the Bar Chaine Ranch. Now a man, Ross Chaine returns to Red Creek Valley to find out what really happened to his father and to take possession of the Bar Chaine. Ross knows his return will likely have a chain reaction -- and that bloodshed could well be involved. But he's determined to set things right, and he has friends on both sides of the border who will help him do just that.

While attempting to save an Indian child, rugged John Curry is injured, when he is thrown from his horse. He is rescued by a woman whose drunken, jealous and scheming husband, Wilbur Newton, becomes his deadly enemy; Wilbur fears Curry will try to stop an ingenious scheme that threatens the desert Indians. unless Curry rides again, three people will die - and one of them is Curry! John Curry is a cowboy in the Arizona desert that has the misfortune to fall in love with a married woman, Mary Newman and he keeps his distance, when he learns her husband is a shiftless drunkard, involved in the illegal sale of watered down alcohol to the Indians. John's biggest concern is that Mary will be hurt, when she discovers what her husband is up to, or if he is arrested. Wilbur Newman leaves his wife, but John's chance to be with Mary still is not to be .. even though Mary and Wilbur's marriage is a bad and unhappy one, she looks for his return to her life. Her father's death and her inheritance complicate matters even more; in this story, the road to a happy ending, faces many rocky twists and turns.

Holly Ripple inherits her father's New Mexico ranch in a time when New Mexico faces its worst frontier lawlessness.

Nash Canfield was a liar, a drunkard, and a cheat, and when he was murdered even the sheriff didn't work too hard to solve the case. Plenty of people wanted Canfield dead. So Greg Quist, hardboiled detective, had to re-open the case with a blazing gun when he set out to investigate the year-old murder. Quist had to outsmart the sheriff, the ranchers, and a bunch of hired gunslicks, all out to run him out of the county.

Fen Yont wanted it all--all the cattle, all the range, the biggest part of Arizona Territory. One man stood in his way: Rufe Rogers. Rufe had left Texas with a price on his head for robbery and murder. Gun in hand, he went after Yont, knowing that before he got to him he would have to face all his hired killers first. Rufe couldn't prove his innocence and knew that when the cards were down he would have to kill Fen Yont--or be killed.

Twelve men before Dan Clifford had been challenged by Jasper Ford, the most notorious gunfighter in West Texas. Every one of the unlucky twelve wound up in Boothill. For Dan--like the others--it was an invitation to his own funeral! But he knew one thing. He didn't intend to run.

Luke Barron discovers a gang intent on enforcing the prohibition against firearms, alcohol, and anything else the Temple of the Redeemed sees fit to ban.

When the people of Nogales got the impression that Henry Logan was a gunman instead of a gunsmith, Logan suddenly found himself the target of jeers--and bullets. Which made it harder to uncover the truth about the missing Rip Parrish, especially when the evidence pointed to murder, and the chief suspect was Rip's beautiful wife.

In "The Golden Magnet," Cole Estes helps Norah Forrest find capital for her mail and stagecoach franchises in Denver after her father is murdered by ruthless competitors. In "Trail to Vicksburg," young Jeff Hueston must drive the family's cattle to market in Union-occupied New Orleans for sale to the Confederate army.

Bill Tenn opened his eyes and stared at the armed man bending over him. "What's wrong?" he asked. "We've found Buck Flynn, is what's wrong," the man replied. Now someone was trying to pin a killing on him.