Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks and ne'er do wells who sees something of himself in kindly, wayward Charlie. But Grady Haskell, ambitious ruffian with a shady past, soon joins the gang, convincing Charlie's friends to pursue a big score. Charlie fails to thwart the crime and the heist turns bloody. As the only gang member caught alive, Big Charlie will...

Since losing his wife and daughter, Samuel Tucker has wandered, drunk and bereft of a reason to go on. In Oregon's Rogue River region, Tucker watches as two men gun down a third. After they leave, he takes the dead man's pistol and makes it to the next town. There he learns that Payton Farraday, a well-liked local rancher, was the second Farraday shot to death within the past two years-- and becomes a suspect in the shooting. Emma Farraday, the victim's...

For eight years the Winters family worked hard to live down the nightmare of a bloody range war. Theirs is now a promising ranch on hard-won land in Wyoming's rugged Rockies. But on the eve of the season's first snowstorm a stranger slips in, ripping open old wounds and devolving their lives into a brutal struggle for survival. When Niall Winters returns from selling his fall herd to find his ranch burned, his Uncle Drift dead, and his wife missing,...

"From the first bloody battles between mountain men and Indians to shootouts between famous gunslingers, this collection cuts to the chase of what draws people to the history and literature of the Wild West. Matthew Mayo, author of Western novels, takes the fifty wildest episodes in the region's history— including John Colter's harrowing escape from the Blackfeet, Hugh Glass's six-week crawl to civilisation after a grizzly attack, Custer's final...

Rafe Barr, master tracker, spy, and war hero, is locked away in Yuma Territorial Prison for life, wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife and son. Five years into his sentence, Warden Talbot Timmons, who has made Barr's time at Yuma a living hell, offers him a deal; full pardon in exchange for rescuing the young dauther of California's Governor Pendleton from Deadwood's top bad man, Al Swearengen. Rafe smells a rat, but agrees...and finds a whole...

"Watch your wallets, and keep an eye on your keys! It's a slippery collection of tales about the Old West's sleaziest swindlers... and they're all true. No, really" -- Back cover.

"After struggling for years to work a raw-patch ranch in the arid flatlands of Texas, young Mitchell Newland learns that his herd of scrubby range cattle will fetch ten times their local price if they're driven to Montana. He strikes a one-sided deal with the devil, neighbouring rancher Corliss Bilks, to back his play with cattle, men, and horses. The trail brims with hellish hardship: prairie fire, stampede, flooded rivers, hailstorms, rattlers,...

"Big Charlie Chilton knows better than to lose his temper, but when a loudmouth threatens to expose his long-buried secrets, he can't help but teach the man a lesson about being quiet. Unfortunately, it turns out the man was about to make an important supply run for the town's marshal, and Marshal Watt knows just enough about Shotgun Charlie's past to draft him into service in his stead. The trek north would be treacherous enough with the snow and...

In autumn, 1849, 14-year-old Janette Riker travels westward to Oregon Territory with her father and two brothers. Before crossing the Rockies, they stop briefly to hunt buffalo. The men leave camp early on the second day ... and never return. Based on actual events, and told in diary format, Stranded is the harrowing account of young Janette Riker's struggle to survive the long winter alone. Facing certain death, and with blizzards, frostbite, and...