Matt Braun

In the harsh land of New Mexico, Clint and Virgil Brannock keep a sharp eye on their ranch....

On October 26, 1881, three outlaws lay dead in a dusty vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona. Standing over them - Colts smoking - were Wyatt Earp, his two brothers Morgan and Virgil, and a gun-slinging gambler named Doc Holliday....

Earl Brannock was a gambling man who fled the fires of the Civil War and found a boomtown called Denver - in a land being built on dreams, luck, and gold....

Ben Thompson carved out a name for himself as a gambler and a shootist - from Dodge City to the Rio Grande. But settling down in Austin with a wife and young son didn't settle Ben's taste for the sporting life....

Clint Brannock has been commissioned to track down the infamous vigilante Miguel Ortega and put an end his violent revolution....

He came from the American South, a gentleman by breeding, a dentist by training, a gambler by vocation....

The Brannock brothers have very different dreams for their lives in the wide-open spaces of the American Southwest....

Born a slave, Jim Beckwith forged his own path to freedom as a mountain man. But when a wealthy trading company owner offered to pay him to live among the Crow Indians, Beckwith accepted the deal - and discovered another way of life that changed him forever....

Luke Starbuck knew Death’s designs were as uncompromising as justice, and as cold and final as an unmarked grave....

For decades, the Texas plains ran with the blood of natives and settlers, as pioneers carved out ranch land from ancient Indian hunting grounds and the US Army turned the tide of battle....

He came off the frontier: a buffalo hunter, a gambler, a loner. In Abilene, he won a saloon at cards and earned the fear of a lawless town. From then on, Jake Kincaid would not be stopped....

In a place called No Man's Land, Texas rancher Ben Langham hired Luke Starbuck for his loyalty and toughness gained by riding with Rip Ford's Texas volunteers....

A rare breed of bulldog and bloodhound, private detective Luke Starbuck has been hired to ferret out the Judas working for the Central Pacific—a mastermind behind a string of train robberies. The target: gold shipments from the Frisco mint....

In California, the Southern Pacific Railway was prying the West wide open, and the land was worth its weight in gold....

America's richest legends come from the frontier - from the land where the events of a single moment might erase the lines between law and lawlessness, between safety and mortal danger....

With outlaws wrecking havoc left and right, a cow town in Texas is on the brink of becoming a ghost town. That's when it's time to call in Chicago-based Pinkerton agent Ash Tallman....

The carefully selected stories in this collection are vibrant proof that the great American West is a fertile ground to storytellers....

The Osage Indians lost their ancestral freedom on a windswept reservation in Oklahoma. Now, in the Roaring Twenties, the land is spewing black gold; oil has been found, and every Osage owns a share of the rights....

Cole Braddock, a Western detective, is hired to take on the Santa Fe Ring, a secret conspiracy of businessmen and politicians determined to gain control of New Mexico....

A band of vicious thieves has drawn the best man that Wells Fargo can send: the rangy, mysterious Chicago-based Pinkerton agent named Ash Tallman....