LIFE, NOT DEATH, DROVE JUBAL YOUNG . . . but memories of his ma and pa, and his beautiful, bright sister are all he has left. Memories of the peaceful days before Jubal stumbled home with his .22, his blood running cold with fear, terror, and anger. When it was over, the homestead was half burned to the ground. Someone had to bury the bodies. Someone had to set things right.
Now, as Jubal rides west into New Mexico, he remembers his family’s laughter and love, his pa’s wisdom, ma’s thick books, and everything that was defiled by a band of drunken renegades towed along by one man’s murderous grudge. A reprobate lawman won’t believe his story. A soft-hearted mountain man won’t survive Jubal’s one-man war. And a judge and his beautiful daughter cannot stop Jubal from climbing a peak of blood and madness: for justice, or payback, or something he can live for—or die for—redeeming.
Silver Trail by Max Brand
John Signal is only twenty-two‚ but he’s old enough to have killed man. It was a fair fight‚ but the man was well-connected and he’s charged with murder. Signal flees to the mining town of Monument‚ looking for a wrangling job as John Alias.
When his horse is stolen‚ Sheriff Peter Ogden tells him that if he can get it back‚ he’ll make him a deputy. Alias succeeds‚ and soon finds himself wedged between two bloodthirsty factions that rule the town.
On the trail of four wanted men, Sherman Dahl-a hired gun known as "The Teacher"-finds his prey in the town of Kindred in New Mexico Territory. He kills all four in a saloon gunfight that leaves him wounded and in the care of a soiled dove. But the marshal of Kindred is a man above the law, and he wants to take Dahl down.
In the booming mining town of Doubtful, Wyoming, Cotton Pickens is the law. And in William W. and J.A. Johnstone's rollicking new Western, the law is in a fight for its life. . .
Cotton Pickens is feeling about as low as a man can get. Held up, robbed and fired from his job as sheriff, things get even worse when someone murders Cotton's horse Critter. And it's all happening just as a flashy, fleshy stage company comes to town.
Some folks demand the show be shut down for immorality. Some folks--Cotton included--sure enjoy the proceedings. But when a man gets stabbed to death, a bank safe gets blown up, and another county's sheriff starts imposing his will, Cotton realizes that a dastardly plot is taking over Doubtful. Badge or no badge, Cotton is going to war. To catch a killer. To stand up to some self-righteous fatheads. And for the right to see a little bare-naked leg--or die trying.
The Lawman: Blood Trails by Lyle Brandt
U.S. Marshal Jack Slade puts his honeymoon on hold when a series of slasher murders makes the Wild West a little wilder.
The MacCallister clan was raised on a harsh, unforgiving frontier, where courage and blood bonds mattered the most. While Falcon MacCallister followed his father's mountain man legacy, his brother and sister made their fame and fortune on the stages of New York and Europe.. Now they re planning a family reunion. Andrew and Rosanna MacCallister are headed to Colorado to visit their kin until they step into the crosshairs of a murderer's plan. Loomis Tate knows that the two actors from back East have a rich brother named Falcon.
But he's not counting on how fiercely that brother will fight for his kin after Tate's crew, including the venomous Albino, kidnapped them for ransom. Falcon MacCallister is on a crusade--and his war won't be over until the last bad man drops.
