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A western duo, two stories about gunmen, warring ranchers, fierce reputations and gold.

Walt Street is on a stagecoach bound for Escalante, Colorado, where he hopes to reunite with his wife after two years of living without violence at her request. But when fellow passenger Ben Rawlins recognizes him as a man with a bounty on his head, a struggle ensues and Rawlins ends up dead. Walt switches identities and all is well until he finds out that Rawlins has inherited a small ranch that the neighboring Gunhammer Ranch wants.

A brutal beating prompts a young man to fight back, and a cattle rancher is torn between the woman he loves and doing the right thing in this western duo.

Tag Landry's brother meant to kill him, and there was too many on the old home who saw only the price tag on Tag’s head. Tag realized that he was outnumbered as he returned at last to Landry, Wyoming. But he's already stuck his neck out, and too many lives and too much land depended on Tag staying alive. So with his hands ready for action, and his guns loose in his holsters, Tag came back onto the Circle L, facing the memory of the first man he'd ever killed - the man whose ghost threatened his life today.

This thrilling adventure novel tells the story of a famous massacre on a Ute reservation in Colorado in 1879, three years after the Custer disaster at Little Big Horn.

The Tincup cattle ranch, owned by Raoul Joliffe and his son Mart, is in the high ranges of the Colorado storm country near the Utah border. Trouble starts when Utah sheep rancher John Robineau moves his sheep herd onto Tincup's graze. In the end Robineau's sheep were killed, but no human blood was shed. Mart Joliffe feels badly about the slaughter, but this is only the first of several ordeals.

Frank Slaughter and his wife, Martha, with their two children arrive at their new homestead. Martha, a city girl, fears the wilderness and the unknown, not just for herself but for the entire family. Frank leaves them alone one fine day to head to town a day away for lumber to build their new house. But weather in the Rockies tends to be fickle. Soon a late spring snow storm arrives. Frank becomes lost in the snow and desperately tries to find his family, now alone, terrified and helpless. 

Against the backdrop of civil strife and treachery, men and women alike are caught up in the desperate drama of war.

Matt Hurst seeks justice when a sheriff's posse kills his father and brothers.