After committing a robbery, Stormy Merrill comes up with a plan to take over the two ranches that make up Marais Valley, ranches that will be inherited by two single women, as he sets up a series of e
Collects two stories, in the first Marshal Hugh Mitchell works to reign in ranch owners and put a stop to the trouble in Dunningan, Wyoming, the second is about the Buckhorn ranch, owned by the Ashley
A TOWN OF SURVIVORSNestled on the border of New Mexico since long before there was a New Mexico, the small town of San Ildefonso had survived a lot. Marauding Indians, bandoleros, soldiers in blue and
THE GLORY OF THE OLD WEST!The two novels collected in this exciting volume capture perfectly the power and magic of Lauran Paine's work. His characters come alive, his plots create suspense, and his d
A HARD TRAILCuff Lockwood has had enough of cold. He's worked a number of years in Montana as a rangeman and wants to live where there's no snow in the winter. So he sets out for New Mexico, a place w
As he so aptly demonstrated in his novel Open Range, which was made into a movie starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, Lauran Paine is one of the West's most powerful storytellers. In the title no
ROUGH TIMESOld Joe Jessup was a buffalo hunter before he married May, a Pawnee woman, and went into the cattle business. Every year at roundup time, the Jessups went into the mountains to enlist the h
LAND OF LEGEND...AND DANGERCache Canon lies well outside Rock City in the Colorado high country. It was named for a legendary cache of gold hidden there, and now it's reputed to harbor a band of hold-
It's often been said that the only law in the West was a gun, and that outlaws rode unchecked over anyone unlucky enough to stand in their way. But as these two classic short novels by Lauran Paine sh
Boss Spearman knew the end was near for open range men like him, cattlemen who drove their herds through the country to graze and then moved on. Local stockmen were staking claims to grazing areas thr
In the middle of a harsh desert where water is the town’s most valuable resource, an accused killer runs to escape the man who is trying to kill him.Troy Warfield is on the run. He is entering hostile
Two Western novellas by the incomparable Lauran Paine, a titan of the Western genre.?Tomahawk Meadow” tells the story of Ladd Buckner, a stranger who arrives in a small town in Arizona Territory. Buck
NEVER AGAINYoung Toby Lincoln was an orphan and runaway who'd been pushed around a lot by life. He spent two hellish years in a Colorado prison, falsely accused of horse stealing. Once he was released
THE KILLER'S EDGEIt was no ordinary gun. It was specially designed to help its owner kill a man. George Mars customized a Colt revolver so it would fire when it was on half cock, saving the time it to
A VISION OF DOOMSam Sloan, an old buffalo hunter, did not know it when he set out on his quest for a spirit vision and a final resting place, but something was drawing him toward a fateful meeting—a m
War At Broken Bow finds Buck Carrell happily in possession of his own small ranch. But the peacefulness of his life is interrupted when a woman collapses at his door. She claims she was on the nearby
