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A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Dry Camp and goes to work at Rich Stanton's ranch. Shortly after Dunbar's arrival, he helps find the body of an old man named Ross Guilford. The foreman, Paul Kelso, picks a fight with a ranch hand named Willard Brumley. Dunbar intervenes, and Kelso fires him. As Dunbar asks around, he learns from Jack Brumley, Willard's father, that Guilford knew something about Brumley's wife, Louise, a beautiful woman...
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"Will Dryden picked the wrong time to ride onto the Redstone Ranch. He was looking for a job...and a missing man. But one of the Redstone's hands was just found killed, so tensions are riding high and not everyone's eager to welcome a stranger. The more questions Dryden asks, the more twisted everything seems, and the more certain he is that someone's got something to hide. Something worth killing for. Dryden just has to make sure he doesn't catch...
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Vance Coolidge always said a man should have a chance to get even when he's been done wrong. And he's certainly been done wrong in his life. So when his friend asks for help in going after the man who killed his brother, Vance agrees to join him. But Vance doesn't completely trust some of the other men riding with them, and soon finds out that vengeance can be a tricky - and very dangerous - business.
4) Good water
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Tommy Reeves and his pal Red Armstrong make friends with the Mexican people who live near the ranch where they work. Their foreman tells them to stay away from the Mexican girls, but the boys do not heed the warning and are fired. Then they find out that Vinch Cushman, their former employer, is trying to force the Mexican people off their land by damaging the creek that supplies their water. When Red goes to sabotage the dam, he is shot dead. Tommy...
5) Twin rivers
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Clay Westbrook stakes a claim on a 160-acre tract of land in Wyoming where he dreams of starting a ranch, but his plans interfere with the money-making schemes of Theodore Sutton who uses every dirty trick he can think of to drive Clay away.
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"Elwood Lawrence--top hand at the Crown Butte ranch--tries to find out where the cattle are disappearing to. It looks like an inside job. His work becomes complicated when he develops an interest in a woman who comes to visit the ranch and behind it all is the disappearance of a flashy stranger who is said to be a bank robber"--Amazon.com.
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"Reese Hartley has come to Wyoming to settle on his own land. But his cattleman boss expects his hired men to turn their homestead claims over to him. Hartley resists and is let go. He meets a woman named Muriel. She has come west to look for land, but her cousins want to exploit her. A cowboy is found dead on the range, and an underage female cousin of Muriel is found dead. This girl, Nancy, has a history of flirting, and suspicion falls on Hartley....
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"Russell Archer has come to Wyoming to fulfill his dream of having his own land. After working for one season on Lidge Mercer's ranch, Mercer offers to make him a junior partner. Before long, however, Archer learns that Mercer may need a bodyguard more than a partner. Then Mercer is found dead, and Archer feels an obligation to solve the crime. Now the real difficulties set in, as the killers come for Archer and his sweetheart, Kate, one at a time....
11) Death in Cantera
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"When the stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Cantera, he shows interest in local history, especially the Frenchman's Quarry and the death of the owner's son twenty years earlier. Dunbar also asks about Pat Roderik, the town marshal, and Dolores Carreau, the Frenchman's widow. And then the murders begin. Now it is Dunbar's mission to pursue the perpetrator, deal with his henchman, and bring him to justice."
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Dunbar, working on a ranch in the Niobrara country in Wyoming, connects the death of a hardscrabble homesteader with the death of an old horse trader some fifteen years earlier. As Dunbar goes to work on a corral project in town and then on fall roundup, more murders take place--a wandering drunk who has picked up gossip in an alehouse, and then the proprietor of the alehouse. People who know too much are being silenced. An old woman named Verona...
13) Dark prairie
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A stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Winsome, on the plains of Wyoming, in the 1890's. Is Dunbar a range detective? Some kind of troublemaker? Or just a drifter? The cowboys get to resenting him, and some are unhappy to find him developing an acquaintance with the wife of the man who plans to change the plains by developing a dam and reservoir near the town.
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Jim Fontaine wants to get a new start in life by settling on his own piece of land near the town of Redwillow. He isn't there very long, though, when a saloon girl named Emma turns up dead and a friend of his, Charley Drake, gets thrown in jail for the murder. Nora Winterborne, who is new in town, confides to Fontaine that she is interested in the case because Emma was her sister, but she has to keep quiet. Fontaine also learns of the disappearance...
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Devon Frost, an artist, has come to the isolated little town of Tinaja to paint the old church. However, he soon becomes caught in a web of passion, power, and murder. Devon believes an accused murderer is innocent and takes it upon himself to find the real killer.--Publisher
19) Rancho Alegre
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Out of work and needing money, Jimmy Clevis takes a job helping an old man named Tull to find his son. Unfortunately, Clevis isn't just riding into Paloma Springs, he's riding straight into a tangled net of lies, stealing, blackmail, hidden identities...and murder.
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