Trouble at Murder Creek
by Wm. Epps
James Gould was the biggest rancher around. He had pushed many a smaller rancher and nester to the side in his quest for more land. But, when Rock Miller came along and settled on a prime piece of land, did he finally run into someone who would push back?

Coming Home
by Tom Hale
A young soldier returns to his Texas home from the Civil War. He is welcomed as a hero, but he knows he does not deserve such praise.

Massacre at Murder Branch
by Roger Keith
A band of marauding Shawnee swept into Kentucky on a raid to steal horses. The pioneer residents of Morgan's Station were in the fields on that fateful morning. Nineteen women and children were captured, and all but a few were killed at Murder Branch.

The Petticoat Posse of Shade Gap
by Gary Clifton
When bandits rob the railway express office, murder the teller, kidnap a child, and shoot the mayor's husband, she cannot find volunteers for a posse. So she enlists the help of her sister, and the dogged pair track the killers into the hills of Arkansas, tangling with some of the most desperate criminals.

Hill of Beans
by Jack Hill
A flash flood wipes out a farmer, and he tries to get his money back from the rancher who sold him the land, claiming fraud. The rancher refuses, and the law backs him. Where can the farmer find justice when the law turns its back on him?

Anger of an Honest Man
by R. K. Olson
Smoke Dawson learns too late that the lies we tell ourselves become our reality as he goes about his business of burning nesters out of their homes for wealthy cattlemen.

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