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The rope was already around Bill Peace's neck. He looked at Judge White, hardly able to believe that this man would lend himself to a lynching. But that was before the outlaw Al Sisson interfered. Bill realized that he would be trading certain death for the life of a fugitive, but the prize seemed worth the gamble.

Hagger is a man on the run, a thief and would-be killer. He's no good on a horse, and feels miserable and out of place in the snowbound high country. But, then, Hagger comes upon a white bull terrier, abandoned in a mountain cabin, and his whole life begins to change.

Cal Larimore's intention is to build a mile-long toll bridge across the narrows between two high desert lakes in eastern Oregon. It is a task fraught with intrigue and suspense, but the most important obstacle is the rain. For days, rain has fallen causing big Rampage Lake to run its feeders across the narrows, endangering the span of trestle that has still 200 feet to go before completion.

Splinters from the wooden banister flew against his face and he felt the tug of lead... A desperate cowboy starts a range war and ends up the prime target. Can he hire enough guns to save his hide?

Two old friends find gold high in the lonely Pinnacle mountains. Their dreams were within reach, until the maniac attacked.

Ah Sin was only a boy, 6,000 miles from China, and he wanted desperately to go back. The lawyer had promised him that once Black Margo was convicted and hung, his estate would pay the youth's back wages, a thousand dollars, so he could return to China. But the frontier justice system did not always work as expected.

An army lieutenant concentrates on rationing out his company's supply of coffee, meticulously dividing the brown squares before him, when a shot rings out. The enlisted men, startled by the noise, suddenly see blood saturating their lieutenant's sleeve.

Stephen Crane was an American novelist, poet and journalist. Crane is noted for his early employment of naturalism, a literary style in which characters face realistically portrayed and often bleak circumstances, but Crane added impressionistic imagery and biblical symbolism to the austere realism.

The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller. From its opening scene—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head—novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing...

The Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers, and observers.

Joseph Larrimee finally makes the gold strike that would prove his worth to everyone, but is he willing to give it up to save a mysterious woman from a gang of hard-bitten desperadoes?

She's wild, beautiful, and he's got to have her, so Arizona college boy John Brecken cooks up one hairy plan. It might work - but dangerous outsiders are watching now, ready to step in. Things are getting far too serious.

Bart Sutherland's brother has been murdered by Colt Parmalee and his gang. In disguise, Bart arrives at Colt's ranch in the Valley of the Damned out for revenge. After being captured by Colt's beautiful daughter, Storm, and the other gang members who killed his brother, will Bart ever be able to survive in order to finish the job and ensure justice in the region?

Two hot-blooded cowboys try to steal a fortune in Mexican gold - during a revolution! If they're not shot by rebels, they'll be tortured by soldiers - unless they kill each other first.

Red Harrigan and Black MacTee have a friendship that is legendary throughout the West - that is until they both fall in love with the same woman.

King of Rats features Max Brand’s unforgettable Reata, a virtuoso of the lariat, who must steal a horse to flush out the desperado, Pop Dickerman, who wants to kill him. With some luckless partners and a gypsy girl he loves, will Reata finally deliver Pop Dickerman to justice?

This mob did not want explanations. They wanted a hanging and a quick one. Summoned by a mysterious letter, Howdy McFee and his amazing horse Pink ride to save his uncle's ranch. There's big trouble waiting for them - a crooked lawyer, a pack of hired killers, a crazy prospector, and a fiery, beautiful woman. What do they all want? When will the disasters stop? Can Howdy sort it out before he's shot or hanged?

Buzz Leary has been in the Klondike, working in the timber business around Copper River, but now he comes back to Skidway. Leary still owns the lush stands of white pine that several others have long coveted, and no one is more his enemy than Mary Dardis who blames Leary for having killed her father.

James Gerald Melrose, better known as Bad-Eye, was a big-headed, bad-drunk transplanted Easterner who was accidentally killed in a barroom fight in Masters’ bar and hotel. One day, Jane Melrose arrives in search of him. She is one very determined woman, and Masters does everything he can to keep her from learning the truth. The task comes with a price, a high one, that Masters realizes that he will pay, but only when it is too late!

If there’s one thing Smoke Jensen hates, it’s a man who fights dirty. And no one fights dirtier than a politician. Especially a lying, cheating, no-good grifter like Senator Rex Underhill. Luckily, with another election coming up, this senatorial snake in the grass has some serious competition: Smoke’s old friend, Sheriff Monte Carson. Carson’s an honest man, and he’s got Smoke’s full support. But Underhill’s got support, too: a squad of hired guns ready to hit the campaign trail - and stain it red with blood.