Former lawman Bruce Martell rides into Indio Basin to find his brother Kip and is drawn into a conflict between cowmen and homesteaders.

In Black Rock Desert, when Lee Cone is hired by Braz Boland to chouse a herd of horses from Carbide Junction into Maacama Basin through Black Rock Desert, he has no idea that it will reignite the old enmity between himself and Tasker Scott. Cone had left the basin two years earlier, when the girl he loved married Scott. When the horse herd reaches Antelope, the basin's town, Boland refuses to pay Cone because of a horse stampede that happened going...

"Two western stories--'Black Rock Desert' and 'The Desert Rider'--find two young men returning to the towns where their hopes were shattered. Each one finds that past experiences have prepared him to face the challenges waiting for him as he helps expose and stop shady characters"--

When Cole Bridger, the owner of the Fishhook spread, saves Bill Raine from a sniper's bullet, Sheriff Partridge tries to arrest him for murder. The evidence proves conclusively that the sniper shot first, and that Raine was the target, so Partridge lets Cole go. Now strange things are happening to Cole. He finds Fishhook cattle with obviously altered brands. This time, when Partridge arrests Cole, it looks like there won't be a reprieve. But before...

"Brought together for the first time in book form are two short novels by L. P. Holmes that appeared only in magazines, both with the author writing at the top of his form. In WOLF BRAND the railroad originally brought in a group of farmers, promising they could purchase land for $1 an acre once they had proved up their claims. But now Abel Collingwood has raised the price to $15 an acre, and he has a hired force to evict the farmers if they don't...