"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...

"Chuck Jenkins was in trouble. Framed into a fight and then thrown into jail, he had only a few more days to raise the money to pay for his T-Bench ranch or forfeit it to Craig Kimball and Fisher Cochrane. There was nothing to do but call on his old friend Lightning Swift for help"--