The young drifter had a taste for life. The old gunfighter had a date with death. Their friendship led to a killing storm— and a true legend of the frontier.
He was young and hungry for life— a scarecrow kid alone in a lawless land. Something about the boy named Kinch Riley made hardened railroad agent Mike McCluskie take him under his wing: show him how to fight and shoot and sample the bawdy wonders of a wide-open boomtown. But

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Print Oliver gave his blood and his soul for the Confederacy. Then he came home to find his family ranch under siege from Union carpetbaggers and his neighbors turned against him. For the Texan there was no choice but to blaze a trail toward power, rounding up wild longhorns and driving them toward markets from Galveston to Abilene. But as Print forged an empire, his family paid a heavy toll. Now he had to make a bitter choice-between the blood of...

They called it Hell's Half Acre: a violent sinkhole of dance halls and brothels, gaming dives and busthead saloons. To some citizens of Fort Worth, the only hope for Hell's Half Acre was to reform it. To others, it was a gold mine. And for one man, a shootist and gambler name Luke Short, it was a place to make a stand.

On October 26, 1881, three outlaws lay dead in a dusty vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona. Standing over them-Colt's smoking-were Wyatt Earp, his two brothers Morgan and Virgil, and a gun-slinging gambler named Doc Holliday. The shootout at the O.K. Corral was over-but for earp, the fight had just begun. Rising from mule skinner to small-town marshal in the kansas Territory, Wyatt Earp was a man who craved fame, power and prominence. He came to Tombstone...

WHILE WORLD WAR I WAS EXPLODING IN FOREIGN LANDS It's 1915. In Europe, men are dying in trenches. In Washington, sentiment is growing for war against the Kaiser. And, in Mexico, an explosive plot is set in motion by a German agent, a deposed dictator, and an army of murderous rebels. A NEW WAR WAS BLAZING ALONG THE RIO GRANDE...Amidst the chaos of Pancho Villa's revolution, a force of embittered Tejanos has crossed the Rio Grande, burning ranches,...

In the 1870s, the frontier was a battleground, where the U.S. Army fought Plains warriors, outlaws terrorized the land, and lawmen took no prisoners. Into the West came a family of New York City stage performers: a widowed father, his son, and a daughter whose beauty and singing voice could make the most hardened frontiersmen weep. The Fontaine family was not prepared for the life they found across the Mississippi. From Abilene to Dodge City, they...

El Paso: In 1881, El Paso, Texas is at a crossroads. A booming sin city, its marshal is about to face his greatest challenge : the savagery of the notorious Banning Brothers. The Wild Ones: In the 1870s, a family of New York City stage performers are unprepared for the hardship they endure across the Mississippi. Their only hope is for young Lillian to sing her way to success in the city of Denver.

Oil is found on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma, and every Osage owns a share of the rights. However, tribal members are soon killed for their royalties. Special Agent Frank Gordon organizes an undercover operation while working openly with frontier legend U.S. Marshall Will Proctor.

Three brothers coming from a defeated South, heading west to build new lives in the boom town of Denver. Earl Brannock, who would gamble on anything, be it a turn of a card or a woman's smile. Virgil Brannock, lusting for wealth and power. Clint Brannock, the loner, driven by a rage that only violence could satisfy.

At the foot of the Wind River Mountains and just east of the continental divide was Tenbow Valley, eighty miles of rich, watered graze on the way to Oregon territory. From Cheyenne, Jack Stillman has come to Tenbow to solve a string of murders. Each victim was a landowner in the valley, and each killing was carried out with a deadly, long range rifle. Taking on the guise of a gambler, Stillman is quick to line up his suspects and start prying open...