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"For the westerner, trouble came with the territory. Long grass valleys, merciless deserts, sheer rock cliffs, icy streams, hidden trails, dusty towns. These were the proving grounds of daily life. At any time violence could explode, and on the frontier there was no avoiding its sudden terrible impact. In this collection of his stories, Louis L'Amour guides us to some of these untamed places where men and women faced the challenge of survival. And...

Meagher County, Montana, was Hereford country. All the ranchers were raising Hereford or Angus cattle-all except Sam Hook.

"Found among a group of unpublished works by Frederick Faust, these two Western stories both deal with cowardice. In "Traynor" the title character is believed to be a weak young man, having let Dr. Parker Channing steal his love, Rose Laymon, away from him. When the stage Traynor is driving into Little Snake is robbed and Traynor's best friend and stage guard, Sam Whitney, is killed by the robber, Traynor chases the thief and recovers his dropped...

When young Richard Gale arrives in the Arizona border town of Casita, he finds himself surrounded by Mexican and American troops, bandits and renegades--and makes an enemy of Rojas, a vicious Mexican bandit leader.

Times are hard for the Curtin clan. Farming and raising cattle don't bring in enough money, and payments on the ranch are due. Curtin is the best there is with a six-shooter--and there are more wanted men than the law can handle. To save the ranch, Curtin brings ruthless criminals to justice--dead or alive. He becomes known far and wide as The Judge, a bounty hunter who will outdraw any man for a fair reward. But when his own brother is stabbed...

Jeremy Prine follows the clues on an old map in his search for a hundred thousand dollars in gold, while a band of outlaws tries to beat him to the precious hidden hoard.

When three people need to leave Virginia City, they face a jarring stagecoach ride across the plains toward Salt Lake through an area infested with ruthless road agents.

When Alabama Joe drifted into Fort Anxious, he seemed to be a shiftless, easygoing tramp. But he didn't fool Stanley Parker. He'd gunned down the notorious Bob Dillman. He'd known that one day Dillman's outlaw partner would appear to avenge death. The Stingaree was fast on the draw and deadly as a snake. Parker knew he'd have to draw first, or die! Here are the perils of hired guns and wilderness traps and a bitter conflict with his own code of honor....

To a man like Cole Dagget, $800 means a lot of hard hours in the saddle--and just enough money to return to Texas, settle down and get married. So when the money is stolen from him in a small town holdup, there's no way he's going to let the robbers just ride away...provided by goodreads.

When Clint Adams lends a gaggle of stranded ladies a hand, it ends up crushed under their wagon, leaving him to rely on his cross draw. And when word gets out, every lowlife gunhand comes around to take on the Gunsmith.