April, 2018

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Issue #103

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Home
by Lawrence F. Bassett
Sometimes people have a home and lose it, and have to find another place to live. That finding's not easy though, especially on the frontier, where Indian raids, rustlers, gunmen, and corrupt businessmen can get in the way. Finding a home in that kind of world takes a special kind of man, like our hero.

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The Twenty-Third Psalm, Part 3 of 3
by Steve Myers
When his brother is murdered by four low-lifes, eighteen-year-old James is told by his father that it is his duty to hunt them down.

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The Passage at Muscle Hill
by Tom Sheehan
Bandits capture a young man but he is saved from immediate death by a beautiful young lady who locks him in a cave where she has hidden a knife, a gun and a stick of dynamite. All's fair in love, robbery and deadly seclusion deep in a mountain cave.

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The Running Iron Incident
by Mickey Bellman
Cleave was already nervous about the dust cloud behind him when two riders came over the hill. Now he was boxed in.

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The Raglun Oracle
by Alex Bernstein
A high fever can bring delirium to a sick child. That's what it had to be. Wasn't it?

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The Quickest Gun from the East
by Larry Lefkowitz
Joseph, a Russian immigrant, goes to Tombstone to see "the real West." There he meets Wyatt Earp, who tells him he can't go around unarmed. Wyatt instructs him in how to draw and shoot. The lesson comes in handy when Joseph is challenged.

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Danger on the Rim
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