A Higher Law
by Dick Derham
The end of the Sioux War opened Wyoming to profit-seeking entrepreneurs. But hundreds of thousands of cattle running free invited two-legged predators. Wyoming ranchers knew that only Texas law could vanquish the rustlers.

The Ballad of Beeve Wellington
by Peter Ullian
Determined to go straight, Billy the Kid and his friend "Alias" take a job protecting a prize stud bull, Beeve Wellington, at the Three Rivers Ranch. But criminal gangs working for competing cattle interests are determined to stop them at all costs—unless Billy and Alias can stop them first.

The Ballad of Santa Rosa
by Chris Platt
Will Coogan's wild gunslinging years were behind him. These days he busied himself running his ranch just outside Santa Rosa. Then trouble came to town. Would he have to go back to his wild ways?

Four Days from San Francisco
by Gavin Gray
Hui, a young Chinese immigrant, begins his new career as a bounty hunter in eastern California. In the course of detaining a wanted murderer he learns a harsh lesson in the value of frontier loyalty, although unbeknownst to his enemies he has also learned the tricks of the trade.

Point of Order!
by Charles Shotwell
The young lawyer knows how murder trials go, coming from Harvard and all. Yet, he is soon to find out, Harvard couldn't prepare him for Rio Lobo, Arizona. There, trials aren't all papers and verdicts, they involve men too. And these men don't take kindly to being found guilty.

White Killer
by Brian Gabriel
Young Pete Teyssou flees his father's whippings and his Louisiana slave plantation for newly independent Texas, but after he is double-crossed and traded to a tribe of Wichita, he adapts to his new family, learns to kill, and vows revenge.

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