In 1874 Jeff Layne, a Confederate veteran and reformed hide hunter sick of killing both men and buffalo, is on his way back to Texas to revive the family ranch, which fell into carpetbagger hands. Sequel to: Slaughter.

Alton Burwick was itching to make a big land grab at Yellow Butte. But first, he had to drive the tough band of squatters from the range. So he rounded up a bunch of killers for the job, and hired Tom Kendrick to ramrod the crew, never mentioning that they would be fighting innocent men and women. Suddenly Kedrick realized he would have to do something fast--before Burwick's mob turned Yellow Butte into a wasteland.

Louis L'Amour's short stories are the bedrock of his enduring popularity. It was with this quintessentially American form that he first found success as a writer, and the great themes that would infuse all of his work first surfaced in unforgettable tales like these - legends of honor and betrayal, greed and sacrifice, cowardice and courage. These stories bring us face-to-face with heroism in unexpected places: in the form of a single mother facing...

While breaking horses in Arizona Territory, Colter Farrow is forced to kill a soldier in self-defense. With the man's comrades hungry for vengeance, he high tails it to Mexico. There he runs into Bethel Strange, who was kidnapped by a villainous rurale captain. After Colter saves her, they're both forced to flee into rural Mexico. While on the run, Bethel resumes the search for her father, the outlaw Jed Strange, who rode out a year ago and never...

Luke Jensen brings a killer's body to Rio Rojo. But before he can collect the bounty, two notorious criminals hit the bank. Now Luke can't get paid unless he catches Gunner Kelly and his Apache sidekick, Dog Eater. Unfortunately, young would-be man hunter Hobie McCullough is after the money-toting outlaws too. With a green kid to protect, renegade Mexican soldiers, and a beautiful runaway bride crossing Luke's trail, the blood hunt takes one deadly...

A captured outlaw gets caught up in a bloody range war in this thrilling tale of the Old West from a Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman Award–winning author. Lawbreaker Webb Cousins is headed for a short trial and a long stretch in jail. A bounty hunter has him cuffed and covered, with no chance of escape. But when the prisoner and his captor ride into the town of Wagon Mound, death rides with them. In a flash of rifle fire and a spray of blood, Cousins...

This is a story of the early days when... An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding...

It's Halloween, and strange things are happening on the ranch. When darkness falls, Drover reports that he has seen a witch, a ghost, a pirate, and two skeletons on Slim's front porch . . . and, these terrifying creatures were saying something about "Tricker Trees." Can Hank and Drover solve the mystery--before they get too spooked?