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When Gaylord Riley walked away from the Coburn gang, he had money and a dream. He worked hard and built a cabin, gathered a herd of cattle, and fell in love with Marie Shattuck.
But when he is confronted with false accusations of rustling and murder, Riley is forced to defend his new law-abiding way of life. Outnumbered and facing a lynching party, Riley is surprised when his old friends return to lend him a hand. But how can they help him and...

Flagan and Galloway Sackett are heading west when they meet an old Irish horsetrader who offers them two fine horses if they escort his granddaughter, Judith, to her father's ranch in Colorado. Unfortunately, the girl was being courted by the outlaw James Black Fetchen, who doesn't want to let her go. Fetchen and his gang leave a trail of robbery and murder behind as they race the Sackett brothers and Judith to the ranch.

After doing his time in prison, Dan Rodelo heads out on the open road, and meets up with Tom Harbin and his men who had just escaped from the Territorial Prison, and enlist Rodelo to help them cross the desert.

When Val Darrant's friend and mentor Will Reilly is gunned down outside a fancy Colorado hotel, Val will need all his gambler's luck to find revenge.

Wounded, dehydrated, and escaping a violent feud with the men of Bob Sutton’s ranch, Trace Jordan is near collapse when he descends from the heat of the desert into a cool, secluded canyon. He wakes to find a beautiful woman gently nursing him back to health. Strong and proud, Maria Cristina has also suffered at the hands of Sutton and his men. The experience has left her hostile and defiant. Trace, intrigued by Maria’s grit and determination,...

This is the first half of the story of Barnabus, the patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his migration to North America in 1600. His saga begins when he discovers a purse of gold coins in the mud of Devil's Dyke in Finland. On the run from English authorities, he meets and marries Abigail Tempany, the daughter of a sea captain. Nick Bardle, the master of a merchant vessel, the Jolly Jack, is half pirate, ready to take any advantage of any activity...

Shot down over Soviet airspace and taken captive, U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack makes a daring escape into the Siberian wilderness. Accompanied by a fellow escapee, Mack must rely on his Native American ancestry and skills if he is to survive his long journey and elude his pursuer, the famous tracker known as Alekhin the Yakut.

Clay Bell's ranch is threatened by a speculator who wants to harvest timber from the land where he grazes his cattle.

Matt Coburn faces a nearly impossible task when he seeks to establish law and order in Confusion, a town full of tough gunmen and outlaws.

When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use vilence against other men--men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn't even possess. Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel's worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian, had appeared one...