The Gallows Man
by Karin Torrey
Danny Risto's late partner warned him to never meet the man he was building the gallows to hang. Which is why, when Danny meets a convicted cattle rustler, set to hang in three days' time, he realizes it takes more than a gallows to kill a man.

Gold Creek
by James A. Tweedie
When Billy and Lucky Lars team up during the California gold rush, everything seems to be going their way until Billy mysteriously disappears and the jury votes to hang Lars for his murder. Does the jury foreman have his eye on the men's claim? And is Billy really dead or not?

He Rode from Natchez
by Glenn A. Bruce
When a traveling preacher asks "fixer" Honcho to deal with some very bad men, they end up dead and Honcho gains a wife. But her past and his eventually collide with tragic results.

Rescue at Elk Creek
by A. R. Matlock
Shad was startled to see Gatlin struggling to stand erect before the Yankee Officer. Bloodied and beat up, but standing. Shad was already planning to rescue his brother because the battle for Honey Springs had started, and the Yankees would be swarming these hills like ticks on a dog's back!

The Price of Freedom
by Dick Derham
Trading his days in a stifling, sweaty prison laundry for the clear Montana air, a horse between his thighs, and a promotion to foreman of the horse-smuggling operation, Will Murfee found a sunlit path of opportunity and prosperity stretching out before him. Was there a price to be paid?

Un-swayed Will
by Dennis Goodwin
In 1845, a perilous Overland Trail journey tests the will of sixteen-year-old Sarah Walden. During the life-threatening journey, she encounters a raging buffalo stampede, an imminent Sioux attack, and near starvation as her little party wanders lost for eleven days in the treacherous Cascade Mountains.

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