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Captain Jed Foster is more than a thief. He's a traitor. With a handful of murderous rogues, he's run off with four wagons containing new Springfield 1880 rifles, bayonets, and ammunition meant to resupply the troops at Fort Bowie in Arizona Territory. Foster plans to sell the weapons to the highest bidder whetherer it's Apaches, Mexican revolutionaries, or Confederate veterans who still dream of destroying the Union. But that's the least of Foster's...

THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Civil War soldier. Trail driver. Cattleman. Texas Ranger. The story of John Horton Slaughter is the story of the America West itself. Now bestselling authors William and J.A. Johnstone bring this legendary figure to life in the blazing saga of the first sheriff in U.S. history who could tame a town like Tombstone, Arizona. A WESTERN LEGEND. AN AMERICAN HERO. It s been barely a decade since the notorious...

Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is running for his life. Though Mac's never even made a pot of coffee, he talks his way onto a cattle drive heading west--as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he has a natural talent for turning salt pork and dried beans into culinary gold. He's as good with a pot and pan as he is with a gun--which comes in handy on a dangerous trail drive beset with rustlers, hostile Indians, ornery weather, and deadly stampedes....

After a botched confidence scam, swindler Dee Hassard begins a killing spree that covers half of the Colorado Territory. His first victim is the brother of rustler-turned-preacher Carrol Moncrief. Now Carrol must fall back on his former bullaw savvy to track the murderer down.

Action packed and authentic, Charley Sunday's Texas Outfit is a vivid portrait of the men whose true grit left its mark on the American West.
Charley Sunday. Bloody Sunday.
In the lawless frontier town of Brownsville, Texas, a boy and his parents ride a carriage down a crowded street—when a kill crazy band of kidnappers strike suddenly. Now, to rescue his family, veteran rancher Charley Sunday cobbles together a ragtag posse...

"STAY THE HELL OUT OF FORT WORTH." Those were the last words uttered by a dying man who was the boomtowns most recent sheriff. Rail-thin and half starved, desperate cowpuncher Jess Casey ignores the travel advice. Instead, Jess not only enters Fort Worth, he becomes the new sheriff, inheriting the body-riddled little slice of heaven called Hells Half Acre, the wide-open, deadliest piece of real estate on the American frontier. Hells Half Acre...

Gil Slatter is quick on the draw and has a head for running a ranch, but he is a lonely man with only a cot in the bunkhouse at the TXY Ranch to call home. Then the ranch's foreman drops dead of a heart attack. Picked to take his place, Gil's entire world turns upside down. One day life is simple. The next he is running the entire outfit. But the old foreman also leaves behind a daughter, a willful young woman named Kate. When Gil drops by to pay...

"A legend among bounty hunters, Luke Jensen is called to track down a deranged Yankee-turned-outlaw with a burning passion to torch the prairies, torment the townsfolks, and turn all he sees into a smoldering cinder... Johnstone Country. Ready, Aim, Kill. CAUTION- CONTENTS MAY BE FLAMMABLE In the darkest days of the Civil War, Neville Goldsmith set the world on fire. As Captain for the Union Army, he marched with General Sherman through Georgia, setting...

It is now 1910 and Hewey Calloway is old enough and smart enough to know that his freewheeling cowboy life is coming to an end, that the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine, where he works for Morgan Jenkins's J Bar outfit. He has never sought or wanted responsibility. He is wary of having to look after his nephew Tommy, a boy intent on following the cowboy life. Hewey even turns down an opportunity to become...