(Thorndike Large Print Western Series)

The collection opens with "Killer", the story of a retired sheriff and the code of honour that drives him into a showdown with an escaped convict. Festering hatred is "The Ways Of Vengeance" when things take an unusual turn thanks to an old man and a little girl. The "Witch" is a Mimbreno Apache girl who has been cast out by her tribe for saving the life of an owl, a symbol of misfortune to the Apaches. And in "Endless Trail" town-tamer Dan Burkett longs to finally settle down to a married life - but first he must deal with his own private devils.

Included in this collection of novellas is 'Legend of a Badman' which tells of the colourful and fascinating character of Clay Allison. Was Allison a western Robin Hood, defending the poor and the weak? Or was he a vicious killer who gunned down more than twenty men?

This collection of frontier tales includes three about the lives and times of Jesse and Frank James and Cole Younger and his brothers, all frontier outlaws whose exploits have become legend. "Home Place" is an early episode in the life of Ben Allison. "Jefferson's Captains" narrates a little-known incident in the lives of explorers Lewis and Clark. "The True Friends" is a partly comic story about two friends who wake up after a drinking spree to find themselves in jail - with one of them convicted of multiple murder. And "Comanche Passport" and "The Skinning Of Black Coyote" are both stories set along the Santa Fe Trail.

Buck Duane's father was a gunfighter who died by the gun and in accepting a drunken bully's challenge, Duane himself was forced into the life of an outlaw. He roamed the dark trails of southwestern Texas, living in outlaw camps, until he met the one woman who could help him overcome his past -- a girl named Jennie Lee.

In Mustang Man, Louis L'Amour takes Nolan Sackett on a dangerous journey into family betrayal, greed, and murder.When Nolan Sackett met Penelope Hume in a cantina at Borregos Plaza, the girl immediately captured his attention. That she was heir to a lost cache of gold didn't make her any less desirable. But Penelope isn't the only one after her grandfather's treasure; Sylvie, Ralph, and Andrew Karnes, distant relatives with no legal claim to the gold, are obsessed with claiming the Hume fortune for themselves. Their all-consuming sense of entitlement recklessly drives them to ambush and murder. Even if Sackett and Penelope are fortunate enough to escape this deadly trio and find the canyon where the gold is hidden, Indian legend has it that nothing will live there--no birds or insects. They say it is filled with the bones of men.From the Paperback edition.

Brock and Pat were raised together since boyhood, and for the past ten years they saved their money to buy a ranch. Now Pat is dead, dragged by his horse--and Brock is sure it was murder. He comes to the mining town of Weston, Colorado, looking for answers and finds too many--and a pack of trouble besides. First he finds that Pat had been working undercover for the railroad. Then he learns that a hundred-thousand-dollar gold shipment has been stolen. It seems that the more he learns, the harder it is to make sense of it all. But he has to make sense of it fast if he wants to stay alive.