Now, aged 18 and carrying the last name of the man who raised him, Smoke Jensen, he is out for revenge.

    Now, he's become the girl's protector, and is on the run from a vicious bounty hunter.

    . .The situation looks grim when Texas Ranger Lucius Dodge starts taking lead from badman Reuben Coffin in the middle of a Salt Valley dustup—until a black-haired angel named Dianna Savage brings the shootout and the robber’s life to a sudden end with a steady hand and surefire aim.But word travels fast in these parts, and it’s not long before Coffin’s vengeful brother Nate puts a bounty on both their heads. Lucius and Dianna can either stay put and wait for death—or set out on the hunt of their lives to send one more Coffin brother to his grave.Praise for Lawdog: The Life and Times of Haydon Tilden:“Lawdog should assume its rightful place beside other Western classics.” —Peter Brandvold, author of Once Hell Freezes Over“Lawdog has it all. I couldn’t put it down.” —Jack Ballas, author of West of the River“J. Lee Butts is one fine Western writer whose stories have a patina of humor, nonstop action . . . and a strong sense of place.” —Roundup MagazineAbout the Author:J. Lee Butts is the author of 22 published books and numerous magazine articles and short works. His book Brotherhood of Blood was runner-up for the Western Writers of America Spur Award in 2005. He’s worn many hats over the years (teacher, administrator, pool manager, IBM supervisor, and western author), and he and his late wife lived everywhere from Los Angeles to Dallas. Currently he’s hanging those hats back in White Hall, Arkansas.

     Isaac Gilpatrick witnesses the killing of old Marshall Blodgett, and when his mother Ione is threatened with death - or worse - he is intimidated into remaining silent. But the guilt he carries wears at Isaac's nerves, until he can bear it no longer and vows to put the information into the new marshal's hands. Unfortunately, Marshal TJ Osgood arrives in town too late. He finds Isaac silenced for good after a crooked judge ordered him hanged. Now, with an under-aged deputy and a hound dog as his only allies, Osgood must sort out the truth, protect the bereaved Ione Gilpatrick, and bring a rough bunch of backwoods timber thieves to justice. That is, if Ione doesn't beat him to it....

    

    Now three of their best short novels are collected in a single volume. Zane Grey’s From Missouri has been restored from the author’s own manuscript and is appearing in paperback in its corrected form. Max Brand’s Over the Northern Border is a classic tale of stage coach robbery and relentless pursuit, also corrected and restored from the author’s original manuscript. Louis L’Amour’s Riders of the Dawn debuted in Giant Western magazine in 1951 and appears here in that original version, as L’Amour himself first intended it. Enjoy these three classic tales and experience the Western the way it was meant to be.

    Just six months ago, Cooper was a youth on the edge of manhood, one looking for adventure. Now he wonders if he will live long enough become a man. With a few items he had hidden-a bit of pemmican, a few strips of jerky, two shards of flint, and his penknife-he heads off into the teeth of winter. When he goes down under the weight of an attack by a pack of wolves, he figures his time has come... until he awakes in a Shoshone lodge. Nursed back to health, it is time for him to become a man, and keep the vow he had made while fighting for survival-kill Josiah Weeks.

    The series concludes with Books 9-12: "Father Found" by Laurie Pagie, "Baby Wanted" by Cathie Linz, "Man With a Past" by Celeste Hamilton and "Cowboy Cop" by Rachel Lee.

    She loved her sisters. She’d seen each one married, and was glad to see them settled and happy. Furthermore, she held no resentment at never having found a good man of her own to settle down with. Yet, regret is different than resentment—and far more haunting.Still, Sage found as much joy as was allowed a lonely young woman—in being proprietress of Willows’ Boardinghouse, and in the companionship of the four beloved widow-women boarding there. Until, that is, the devilishly handsome Rebel Lee Mitchell appeared. It seemed Reb Mitchel instantly and forever vanquished Sage’s feigned contentment. Dark, mysterious and secretly wounded, Reb Mitchell utterly captured Sage’s lonely heart. Nevertheless, to Sage Williows, the powerfully attractive cowboy—admired and coveted by every female in his path—seemed entirely unobtainable. How could a weathered, boardinghouse-proprietress resigned to spinsterhood, ever hope to hold the attention of such a man? And knowing she couldn’t—would Sage Willows simply sink deeper into the bleak loneliness she’d secreted for so long?

    Lawlessness was a part of daily life and yet there was the law. The need for justice was paramount but often those who found justice did so with their own strength, the law was simply too far away. They struggled to find a place in life dangled between the owl hoot trail and honor. The difference between the two directions could be changed by circumstances good or bad, events controlled or beyond control, and by people caring or dangerous. An oasis offers its precious gift to any who happen upon the scene; young, old, different, and especially the defenseless. The Weathervane Ranch offered acceptance but not complicity. It recognized that everyone had the right to a second chance at discovering life at its best. One man chose to open his life to others and in doing so found a life richly blessed and profoundly indebted to those who came to receive.

    The Texas Rangers recruited Bowdrie to help pursue the most wanted men in the Southwest. And Bowdrie knew the terrain all too well: the dusty trails, bitter cattle feuds, the desperate killers, and the weather-beaten towns that could explode into chaos at the wrong word. The Rangers were called in to handle the tough cases, and Bowdrie was the toughest and smartest. He had vowed to seek out justice, but there were times when justice required fists and guns….

    When he agrees to track down the notorious Sunday Gang, he doesn't realize he will end up at Gunman's Crossing, the wildest town of the Old West.

    Nathaniel Wilcock had taken Shane into his own home, loved him as a son, and placed within his grasp one of the largest ranches in the Wyoming Territory.But Shane had heard the stories. He knew the whispers about the fugitive gunman who stood against Wilcock during the land wars that had rocked the valley almost thirty years ago. In Nathaniel Wilcock's eyes, the gunman was nothing better than a vigilante and an outlaw, and as such he had died. To the people of Hangtree, he was a hero — a martyr who had stood against corrupt power and injustice.When Wilcock's greed moves him against the only woman Shane has ever loved — a woman who holds the secret that could resurrect everything for which the outlaw fought — Shane finds himself forced into a place not so very different from that of the outlaw thirty years ago. He must make a decision, the shadow of which will forever be cast over the lives of all those he loves. A decision between truth and power — between honor and life — between right and wrong.

    Upon release, he added murder and kidnapping to his list-and U.S. Deputy Marshal John Ward is the only one who stands a chance of stopping Stoner's bloody rampage.

    When young Richard Gale arrives in the Arizona border town of Casita, he finds himself surrounded by Mexican and American troops, bandits and renegades—and makes an enemy of Rojas, a vicious Mexican bandit leader.

    Smoke Jensen bucks the odds to save his cousin from a hundred-gun showdown that's about to explode in bullets and blood.

    

    Since Paige didn't heed his advice at the poker tables, he reasons a bit of "friendly" persuasion is needed to send her packing from Wooded Acres. But when she matches him trick for trick and has his ranch hands jumping to please her, Royce knows he's met his match. A simpering miss she is not. Sassy and daring; if only she'd give him a reason to trust her...Royce despises her--Paige knows that much is true. But she's convinced he knows something about her past, and until he tells her about her family, she isn't going anywhere. And if in the meantime she happens to tame this rough and tough cowboy, all the better. Any girl will tell you, it's not how you play the cards, it's the Luck of the Draw that counts.

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    Enjoy books 5-8 in the series: The Rancher Takes a Wife by Jackie Merritt, Outlaw Lovers by Pat Warren, The Way of the Wolf by Rebecca Daniels and The Law is No Lady by Helen R. Myers.

    He begs his old nemesis, Hurricane Bradford, to come and take Tempest away and protect her. Tempest has her own ideas, and demands the right to protect her wheel-chair bound father from the evil man threatening them. Hurricane agrees to take charge of the feisty redhead, but makes it perfectly clear that his way will include teaching the little brat some manners. He owed her that much for the humiliation she put him through when she thought HE was Grover Ashe!Hurricane's Tempest is a rollicking western, full of two hot-tempered people and the families they love.Book Length: 22 chapters/98111 words

    His exploits were legendary and whispered around Comanche campfires. Rumor had it he was almost invincible. He led a roving band of renegade Comanche that looted, plundered, raped, and slaughtered settlers all over west Texas at will until he visited Shawgo's valley. They murdered Shawgo's wife and family, burned his house, butchered his cattle, and stole his horses! Now, Shawgo hits the vengeance trail to right the wrongs committed against him. He was sworn he won't stop until every last one of them are sent to wander sightless in the great hereafter.

    Pulp Writer tells of Paul S. Powers’s travels from serious literary ambitions to the pages of Wild West Weekly, of his seeking his fortune (or material, at any rate) in the ghost towns and mining camps of Colorado, and of his life in Arizona and California as he reaped the rewards of his wildly successful Wild West Weekly characters such as Sonny Tabor and Kid Wolf. Extending from the Great Depression to the golden age of the pulps, Powers’s career, chronicled here in often laugh-out-loud style, is an American success story of true grit and commercial savvy and of a larger-than-life character with questionable but endlessly entertaining Western lore to spare. In the process, he provides a valuable and rarely-chronicled look at the business of writing and publishing pulp fiction during its golden years. Powers’s granddaughter Laurie never knew her grandfather and lost touch with his side of the family. In her biographical essays, she finds her lost family and discovers the Pulp Writer manuscript. Her essays also provide a valuable historical context for pulp publications such as Wild West Weekly and their importance during the Great Depression.

    

    

    In the second book Chase Calder's son, Webb Calder fights the newcomers who rush to claim grasslands where Calder cattle graze. But he can not resist Lilli -- a proud and lovely young immigrant, loyal to the homesteader's cause, and to her husband. Still, a Calder keeps what he has and gets what he wants. Where a man stands for what he believes, there Stands a Calder Man.

    The Legends of the West series covers the tumultuous 1830s through the 1860s in California, Nevada, and Utah—from when the American military and Mexican bandits warred over the riches of Spanish California, to the Bear Flag rebellion that carried California from Mexican to American ownership, to the 1850s gold rush, to the silver discovered in Virginia City in 1859, to the beginning of the Civil War and the division of a nation.

    So when her girl is kidnapped and the cattledemanded as ransom, Carina stands to lose everything! She needs the best there is to help her, and that's Penn McClure--a mysterious, darklyhandsome cowboy....Penn is hell-bent on revenge, and Carina's cattle will leadhim to it. As they ride the trail together, they share morethan a passion for justice--Penn has made Carina feel likea woman again. But with all that's at stake, can she save her legacy and tame his heart?

    As a result of her divorce, her happiness and health have dimmed. In an effort to get in shape and regain her happy fun-loving outlook, she follows the advice of a good friend and her daughter to take a summer job on a ranch in West Texas. She arrives to learn she’s been duped—her job description is not what she’d been led to believe. But she’s signed a contract and will stay until a replacement can be found. As the summer progresses, Lynn challenges her body, tackles old fears, and buries grudges to find the light that is to be her destiny.Seth Williams, a psychologist and divorced ranch owner, has never gotten over his divorce and harbors a secret hope that he and his ex-wife will reconcile. During the summer, he runs a camp for problem kids. He needs a bread cook, and on the advice of a friend hires Lynn Devry. When the haughty school teacher is thrust into his life, he realizes his summer will be anything but dull. As mutual respect and friendship grows, he learns his happiness lies in the future, not in the past. Set amid the stark beauty of West Texas, two people disenchanted with love find respect and attraction growing into something deeper. When the Ocotillo Bloom charters the journey of Lynn and Seth as they overcome obstacles and find self-renewal—the reward being love.

    With encyclopedic knowledge and an extensive collection of Old West memorabilia handed down to him from Civil War veterans, cowboys, frontiersmen, and Native Americans, William Foster-Harris truly understood what the days of cowboys and trail drivers looked and felt like. His book offers the fashions and feel of the Old West from the end of the Civil War through the 1890s by detailing the styles of the period; military dress for the Union and Confederate armies; weaponry of the time; and more. Illustrated with clear, precise drawings to assist the descriptions, few books present a better idea of how the West really looked.

    But when a bomb found its way into his hotel room, he was forced to do some detective work or end up six feet under. Luckily he had help in the shapely forms of a beautiful brunette who set the steam rising in his engine and a buxom blonde who wanted to take him for a ride. Morgan only hoped he could get out of this mess before he was railroaded, wrecked, or run down.POWDER CHARGE: Looking for safe haven from a pair of bounty hunters, Morgan ducked into La Grande. There, an 85-year-old cattle baron offered him one thousand greenbacks to help win control of the dusty town. Lee didn't like taking sides, but the money was good, and he had some extra encouragement in the form of a shapely reporter named Charlene who had a nose for news and an eye for Morgan. He figured he might as well help the old coot out—but first he had to get the bounty hunters off his back and Charlene out of his bed.

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