Gon Fer Gud Banthar
by Gerald DiPego
Boyd Timms calls out from his boney horse and narrowly escapes being shot by a spirited young woman alone in her cabin on the prairie. When he reveals he's an artist and sets about painting her portrait, her mean-hearted husband comes home. Who will be left when the gunsmoke clears?

Coyote Woman
by Stan Dryer
When the Taggart brothers burn down the Turgis ranch house, they don't figure on Nancy Turgis, the Coyote Woman, coming after them. The Dustville Sheriff and Injun Yano follow along behind picking up the dead bodies and seeing that justice finally triumphs.

Plumbeck the Fiddler
by Tom Sheehan
They had taken Plumbeck's daughter hostage, forcing him to get information on a large payoff, thus setting up their robbery. The fiddler himself must find his daughter and get her back, against all the odds thrown against a mere strummer of sweet notes.

The Sins of Our Brothers
by Issac Withrow
A professional thief and his straight-laced, war-hero brother find themselves trapped in a shack after a bank robbery in the Dakota territory goes horribly wrong. As a posse closes in, the brothers desperately seek an escape while coming to terms with their own knotty relationship.

Rogue Wire
by Peter D. McQuade
In 1875, Idaho telegrapher Timothy Gladstone is riding the Silver City-to-Boise line at night, on horseback, searching for the source of a strange electrical gibberish that's making the telegraph line unusable. When he stops to tap the line, the gibberish brings him face-to-face with the ghosts of his own past.

To Live and Die in Bannack
by James A. Tweedie
In the Montana gold rush town of Bannack, the law was what either Tom Badoin or a mob of vigilantes said it was. And whether guilty or innocent, justice was served at the end of a rope.

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