"Had the man who arrived in Tonto Basin on the night Juke Ronstadt was murdered been an ordinary cowpuncher, the forces out to grab a cattle empire very likely would have killed him. But he was Bufe Telldane, ex-lawman, ex-outlaw, and about the deadliest man with a gun. So they tried their hands at framing him"--

"Steve Rambo, hard and determined, came to the town of Post Oak, looking for a man to kill. He had stayed on quietly, taking a job with the Swallowford outfit as cover for his presence, waiting for the fellow to show his hand. Somewhere in this high hill country lurked Deuce Kramer, who was responsible for the death of Rambo's sister. But Rambo was to find his job complicated by a battle being waged between Forko Fox and his Swallowford outfit and...

"When "Slow-Down" Munn, deputy U. S. marshal, arrives one night in the hell-bending copper camp of Laughing Horse, it is with the intention of posing as a drifting smokeroo and hiring out his pistols to Sheriff Loma Jack, who it seems is powerless to check the turbulent stream of killings, robberies and other criminal acts which are swiftly giving his county seat a most unenviable reputation. But hardly has Munn walked his pony the length of the town's...

"Sheriff Dan Stuart faces the problem of preventing a range war between the cattle barons of Cibecue and the invading sheepmen with grim determination and his twin six-shooters while trying to find the identity of a killer who has knifed men from both sides"--

"Sheep were on the move and the tempers of hard-pressed cowmen were on the rise. Drought had hit them hard, losses were high, and being sheeped out would ruin them completely. For reasons of their own, the U. S. Forestry Service wanted trouble stirred up between the beef riders and the mutton punchers. They figured it would force Congress to give them what they were after. And they thought they had their trouble-maker in the escaped killer, Pete McGrath....