McPherson's Bunch
by Robert Chase
In 1868, the trails of the American Southwest were menaced by Apache raiders and a band of ex-Confederate outlaws, Rebels who had lost everything during the War and now turned to crime. Why would a U.S. Marshal in Denver send a lone deputy south to deal with the situation?

Hired Gun
by R. J. Gahen
Joe Noble was the most successful assassin in the West. He'd left a trail of dead men behind him for twelve years. Now he's been hired to kill the sheriff in Pecos. Will things go as smoothly as they usually do?

Mourning Mordecai
by Joe Kilgore
Rancher Hayes is found dead, and a renegade Apache is blamed. But the Sheriff of Concho County isn't buying that story. His investigation leads to not one, but two people confessing to the crime. Are either or both guilty? Or is another culprit hiding in plain sight?

Blue Fire
by James Martin
"No sir, we aim to have what you've been mining for, and being that there is three of us and one of you, I figure we're going to get it. Don't expect what you have is worth you dying for." Looks like talking time is over.

Dorfbruder
by Timothy Dusenbury
The town of Shiprock requests a new schoolmarm. Instead, they are sent Matthais James Dorfbruder, an unattractive young man with Amish roots and pacifistic views. It seems for a while that things might work out for everyone, but then an incident with a rattlesnake transpires.

Heart of Goldenrod
by Marcus Lessard
Tin Can Toby? Surely you've heard the rumors about his exploits and the ultimate sacrifice that he paid to rescue the townspeople of Fort Wood from a gun-totin' hooligan—and the world from itself. But now hear the real story behind this magical, mystical, Old West legend.

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