Mysterious forces drive Gabe Allen to leave home in search of the Keystone Ranch. Job by job, handout by handout, he finally makes it. But his next journey will be far more dangerous, more demanding. He is to see an arrogant lady safely home to her own ranch where her sister is being held hostage by an outlaw gang whose leader is almost certainly insane. Gabe's only weapons are his wit, ingenuity, and a .44 revolver; but what can one man and one gun...

"The body they found floating face-down in the river was wearing only underpants. If it's a fishing accident then is it a photography accident when a second corpse is discovered at a remote lake and is wearing nothing but her underwear? Ranger McIntyre's usual duties as a park ranger do not include murder--or women in underwear, for that matter--but he keeps on putting pieces of the puzzle together until they lead him to a backcountry hut and a murderer...

"Someone found out about a painting that Albert Bierstadt left in Estes Park in the 1870s. Someone who's willing to break into summer homes looking for it, and murder anyone who gets in the way. Many of those homes lie inside Rocky Mountain National Park, which means it's up to Ranger Tim McIntyre to find out who the searcher is, why they will kill for it, and where the Bierstadt painting's hidden. Luckily the park ranger can enlist the assistance...

Recovering from a harrowing ordeal in a hidden valley deep in the mountains, Kyle Owen, a cowboy working for the Keystone Ranch, is determined to discover what happened to him and sets out on a quest that will be transformed into the greatest adventure of his life.

For most people, the death of Rocky Mountain Jim Nugent is solved. In June of 1874, while out riding through Estes Park, Colorado, with a friend, Nugent was shot and killed by Griff Evans. Case closed. Professor David McIntyre is not most people. When McIntyre finds evidence that Nugent wrote a manuscript soon before his death, he starts to wonder about what it contained. And if it still exists. Convinced the manuscript will shed light on the murder,...

Thirteen Western stories. They range from Luke Short's Top Hand, which is on a young man of courage, to John M. Cunningham's The Tin Star, on another man of courage, and which was made into the film, High Noon.