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Stone Tobin’s life on the frontier has never been short of hazards. But nothing can keep him from what’s important: caring for his adopted son, Clyde. After years of supporting himself and Clyde through his talents of wet-plate photography, Stone’s sense of justice takes them off the beaten path when he and Clyde stumble upon a woman in deep trouble. Hazel Allen. Soon after learning of her husband’s role in her parents’ untimely deaths, she was abducted by an outlaw gang. There’s a steep reward for her return – but her powerful husband, Wesley, hopes she’s killed before she ...

Rugged tracker and Civil War veteran Tristan Hawk is hellbent on accomplishing his mission to serve justice. Railroad tycoons Ames Hathaway has enlisted Tristan Hawk to go after the Rip Bateman outlaws who have kidnapped the younger 15-year-old Baker Hathaway. Bateman and his lackeys had been working for Ames until they were fired for abusing Chinese railroad workers, and Bateman’s way of revenge is a kidnap-for-ransom. A lot is on the line for Tristan, including Baker’s life and the safety of anyone who gets too close to Bateman and the outlaws. And Ames is under pressure to make sure ...

Sloan Ferrell and his brother James stared at their parents lifeless bodies on the floor. Fourteen years later, young cowboy Sloan found his chance to avenge his parents. The brothers go all out to bring eight outlaws to the justice they’ve evaded for fourteen years. The outlaw gang leader Cole Marsh spent the Civil War years riding with one of the most infamous soldiers of any war, Captain William Clarke Quantrill, the architect of the 1863 Lawrence massacre. The Ferrell brothers’ pursuit of the outlaws is helped by feisty lady Gretchen Hughes, who still recognizes Cole as her ...

Jason ‘Jace’ Foster must find and bring home his missing brother Matt, whose life has tragically crossed paths with Arizona territory’s most ruthless man, Edgar Marble or Snake Marble. Marble’s reputation, and that of his brutal associates, is well earned and the man has no conscience when it comes to doing business with fellow thieves and degenerates. The odds are against Jace, the former Union Army soldier, until he meets Emma Jackson, a charming and feisty woman of the west. Another classic western with respectful romance and women as strong frontier folk from author William ...

The Old West frontier was never a perfect or safe place. Nobody knows that better than Deputy Johnny Russell. The energetic young man works for Sheriff Marcus Sharpe in the town of Plain Creek, located in the Arizona Territory. Earlier in 1875 he survived being shot by a vicious killer. Now the lawman is on the trail of another gang of outlaws, led by cunning career criminal Waco Walker. One of Waco’s men kills a farmer and two sons. Johnny has to muster his courage and law enforcement skills to stop additional bloodshed and protect a major gold shipment. It won’t be easy as the bandits...

The Civil War veteran stands alone in his fight for justice and safety for his townsfolk. Friendly cowboy Gil Richards is one laid-back bronco buster. The war veteran happily makes his living as a wrangler near Hugo, Arizona. But that all changes when a stranger mysteriously dies right in front of him. Gil suspects the dead man may be a state prisoner being used illegally by shady businessman Mort Odom. Mort, and his henchmen don't let anything or anyone get in their way. If that involves murder, then so be it. For the good people and townsfolk of Hugo, Gil takes on the injustice. And among...

Civil War veteran Clint Turner is a happy man working as a blacksmith in Macon, Texas. He loves to see his neighbors use the metals forged from his hands until all that changes dramatically when an outlaw gang kills his brother-in-law and his sister. From then on, he has only one thing on his mind – a mixture of justice and vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Clint campaigns to become sheriff of Macon County. The law enforcement job for Clint would see him put to good use his six shooter, his wits, and his sense of justice.

No lawman has ever been tested under fire as Sheriff Clay Granger. The lawman must respond to a large murderous Vortman family intent on leaving behind a trail of blood and fear in 1874 Empire, Texas. The Vortmans, led by evil patriarch Asa Vortman, don't mind burning, shooting, bludgeoning or blowing up anyone who gets in their way. To complicate matters, the insidious gang are holed up a most well protected pieces of real estate on the frontier, Ridge Country. Nobody can lay a hand on them in the barren, rugged rock terrain. Or can they? That's Clay’s mission as he fights against the ...

It is 1873 and cowboy Tate Foster finds himself having to lead a wagon train of some two hundred western bound settlers over a dangerous canyon pass. The rugged young cowboy also has to be mindful of a gang of villains, led by the ruthless and thoroughly evil Cobra Hawkins. No decent person is safe from Hawkins, and he is especially sinister towards women and children. The lone wagon will cross paths with the Hawkins gang, and Tate will have to put up a fight of his life if he is to protect the innocent. Tate’s spirits are buoyed by a fellow wagon train beauty, Julia Wright, who is ready ...

It’s 1868 and many people are relying on the skills of scout Drake Sagewater. Drake is helping settlers on their way to California. The Andrews family, riding in a canvas wagon, has been attacked by a shrewd renegade from the Apache Nation, named Jace. With a rag-tagged band of fellow renegades, Jace is making life miserable, and sometimes deadly, for settlers. That is the case with the migrating Andrews family, who loses their patriarch, Jed Andrews, in a raid. While seeking justice, Jed’s daughter, Lydia, takes a shine to the handsome young Drake Sagewater. Drake’s challenge is ...

“Do I need to remind you to take care of yourself?” she reminded him. “Don’t worry about me. I still hate to lose, dear,” Colton mildly admonished her. Colton Day does not get a chance to rest much as yet another threat has come to the rugged frontier town of Temple Ridge. Earlier in the year, former lawman Colton defeated a killer gang and then thwarted a group of kidnappers. Now, Birch Simmons has come to town and killed Temple Ridge’s Mayor Huck Flinton. But bringing the corrupt rancher Simmons to justice will be a monumental challenge. This challenge naturally falls on ...

Civil War veteran and cowboy Gabriel Hansen is called to serve as a deputy in order to stop Rube Bauer, an evil and unstable man who has a sinister plan to become wealthy. Bauer’s plan involves murder and illegal land sales in Arizona Territory. He wants to swoop up lands in small towns Newton and nearby Grove. But the town of Newton is an all-black settlement, which no longer trusts white authorities especially in the aftermath of the killing of a black family. The lynching has concerned officials from Tucson to Washington. Helping the investigation is famed black lawman Baker Reed. Both...

Young brash cowboy Buck Larsen is fed up and can't take it any longer. Everyone in Centerville, Texas is sitting back and letting a local cattle baron and his ranch hands call the shots for everyone, whether they like it or not. Most of them don't, but won't do anything about it. They're all paralyzed by fear. They refuse to act against the bullies, mis-named the Justice Rangers. That group threatens anyone they don't like with violence and unspeakable acts. Kidnapping and murder aren't below this violence gang, who hide their identities with masks. Not only is the town scared but the ...

A hunt is on for Wiley Hatcher and the renegades before more people are hurt. Leading that search is Adam Dale, a young Civil War veteran. Adam has witnessed a brutal tragedy where his neighbors, the McCormicks, have been murdered by the renegades. Only Lydia McCormick, age nineteen, has survived. The renegades are emboldened by new Winchester rifles, which Hatcher has also illegally sold the stolen weapons to the natives. Adam is aided by his younger brothers, Lyman and Jake. Adam will need all of his bravery and skills to make sure justice is brought to the frontier. During his mission, ...

Star Holiday is on the run. Left on her own to tend to a hopeless harvest, she watched as her husband, Fletcher, was seduced by saloon girls, card tables and violent robbery. Now Fletcher is dead. To free herself and the quiet Nebraskan countryside from her husband’s mounting cruelty, Star pulled the trigger. Star is the only person that sees justice has been served. On trails and rails, Star battles across the tormented Great Plain to get to her aunt and uncle’s ranch in Colorado. Freedom and peace are on the horizon. Now, the law is on her trail. U.S. Marshal Duke Horne always gets ...

Young ranch hand Cole Tyler’s best friend, Martin, has been captured while on a cattle drive through Indian Territory. And if Cole doesn’t get there fast, Martin will be a dead man. Martin has been forcibly taken hostage by an outlaw. One named Bones Foster. A violent robber on a crazed mission for a Spanish Treasure. If the treasure is found and presented to him, he’ll let Martin live… But nobody knows where the treasure is. And Clare Whitley, Martin’s sister, doesn’t care if the treasure is real or a myth. Clare is no sharpshooter. Nonetheless, her guns are ready and she has ...

Colton Day, a veteran of the Mexican-American War as well as of the Civil War, is a rugged figure on the Texas frontier. The former lawman was recently the toast of Temple Ridge, Texas in 1866, helping the town fight off a gang of ruthless killers and outlaws. Colton’s unique set of skills are needed again to help his lifelong friend, Running Deer, an educated and savvy Kiowa Indian. Running Deer’s wife and little girl have been kidnapped by a nefarious group of outlaws dealing with the illegal sale of human beings. Many of these people are coerced into participating in exhibitions ...

“Help them” are the last words of a dying man who had no hat, no gun, no horse and massive callouses on his hands. US Marshal Clint Riley is suddenly staring at a nefarious mining operation in Colorado Territory. Dozens of citizens and an entire Indian village go missing. Innocent men, women and even children are threatened, abused and some killed. This biggest and most wicked crime in Old West lore has to be exterminated – at its roots. Together with his deputy Jasper Teel, Riley saddles up to investigate this nefarious operation. The US Marshal uses his wit, brawn and law ...

Hunting the men who did it. One by one. After learning the truth about his family’s killers, Deputy Lucas Butler leaves behind his East Texas home and tracks down the Bloodhoof Gang, the seven men responsible for the fateful night that tore apart his childhood. Some of the brutes have vanished from sight. But others still eke out their heartless trades. Elwood Roscoe, the engine behind the Bloodhoof reign of terror, hasn’t lost his taste for blood and theft. He’s made his living making a mockery of justice. As Lucas uncovers an ocean of pain left behind by the gang, he also finds ...

Bart Fulton feels compelled by fate to pin on a deputy’s badge in Arizona Territory’s Plain Creek. The young twenty-two-year old has drawn an almost impossible first challenge – putting an end to the evil and murderous ways of criminal Weed Meadows. Weed doesn’t bat an eye killing innocent people and threatening others. He wants to expand a silver mine he stole. To do that he’ll have to get land from two families, the Lees and the Rileys. There’s one problem – both families have been feuding for years. Bart knows about Weed’s nefarious plans. But convincing the Lees and the ...