Dale Stephens, known as the Gila Shadow, dodges a posse after robbing a bank but soon takes on the job of helping Santiago escape from a trap at the Golden Cactus roadhouse.

"Winghorse was a wide-open town where gun law was the only law and where Reece Rudabuagh's fast, highly-paid gunslingers had formed a welcoming committee, ready at a moment's notice to blast anyone who dared to defy their land hungry boss. But this kill-crazy mob faced more than just a saddle-weary, shiftless Texas ramrod in Andy Farlow. Farlow had come here on a mission -- to find 100,000 Spanish gold pesos -- and he would kill anyone who tried to...

Two of MacDonald's most memorable novellas in one volume. Gun Fog opens at the tail end of an all-night poker game when young Jerry Knight, who has just drifted in, finds himself the big loser. He signs an agreement to work for the Circle F without compensation for two months, unaware that he'll soon be mixed up in cattle rustling and framed for murder. In The Red Raider, Old Dad Flint sets out to avenge his son's murder, but the confrontation takes...

In "The son of the wolf" Wolfe Blaine is an ambitious rancher who has become rich and always wants more. He shoots his opponents or manages to lay claim to their holdings legally. Gene Colton is a rancher who loses his spread to the Wolf. Although he is unwilling to confront Blaine with guns, he devises a scheme that will take twenty years to accomplish his revenge, but one that he is convinced will be more painful for Wolfe Blaine than death. "Powder...