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THE TOUGHEST CATTLE BARON IN TEXAS FACES THE TOUGHEST CHALLENGES.... A legendary figure of the Old West, indelibly etched into its history as one of its toughest heroes, "Texas" John Slaughter is a lawman and cattle rancher with bravery to burn and the smarts to come out on top, even when the odds were stacked against him. As lethal as he was with a gun, Texas John never asked for trouble. But somehow, trouble always had a way of finding him...Grazing cattle is where the money is, and Slaughter is determined to carve out his own piece of paradise on a San Bernardino ranch. But along the way he will have to fight for what's rightfully his, from his run-ins with clans of greedy rustlers to his time as Tombstone's tin star and his deadly showdown with the notorious Apache Kid. And in the end, when the dust has settled, they will all learn the same hard lesson: no one walks away from a shootout with Texas John Slaughter. BASED ON A TRUE STORY, THIS RIVETING NOVEL IS PART OF THE WESTERNERS TRILOGY THAT INCLUDES GUNMASTER AND THE OUTLAW TRAIL BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF CLASSIC WESTERNS LIKE REVENGE IN LITTLE TEXAS AND APACHE STORM!

A FRONTIER HERO FIRES THE OPENING SALVO OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION... Drummed out of West Point, Christopher Groves goes home to Kentucky in disgrace, only to walk right into a feud with the murderous Vickers brothers. Now wanted by the law, Christopher heads for Texas, where American emigrants are chafing under the yoke of Mexican rule and are poised to fight for their independence. Flintlock Jones is an old man now, but Christopher is kin and he won't let his grandson make the long and perilous trek alone. Together, the two men get more action that they'd bargained for, running afoul of kidnappers, river pirates and bounty hunters. But that's nothing compared to the full-blown war that erupts between Texicans and their Mexican overlords, a war in which the legendary Flintlock Jones strikes one last blow for liberty.THE FINAL EXCITING ENTRY IN THE ACCLAIMED TRILOGY THAT BRINGS THE COURAGE AND CONFLICT OF THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER TO LIFE, WHICH BEGAN WITH FLINTLOCK AND THE BORDER CAPTAINS.

A legendary band of Texas heroes rides to war one last time.They built a new republic with their blood and courage. But with the battle for Texas independence fought and won, and the Union being torn apart by civil war, a new threat has arisen on the bloody border between Mexico and the Republic of Texas. John Henry McAllen, who formed the Black Jacks to fight alongside Sam Houston to defeat Santa Anna a quarter of a century earlier, hoped his fighting days are over. But when the corrupt sheriff of Brownsville is gunned down by a Mexican ex-soldier, Houston-now the Texas governor-declares martial law. A volunteer force called the Brownsville Tigers is mustered to battle fierce raiders led by the Mexican patriot named Caldero. Yet another war is about to erupt over the disputed southern border of Texas and McAllen's son Gideon, a Brownsville Tiger recruit, is in the middle of it. When Gideon is taken captive, McAllen, followed by his legendary Black Jack fighters, crosses the Rio Grande into a storm of blood and fire, determined to save his boy-or die trying. THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE BLACK JACKS AND TEXAS BOUND GIVES US AN AUTHENTIC, ACTION-PACKED NOVEL OF WAR, HONOR AND BETRAYAL BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS.

Blood on the RangeLow-life rustlers like Rafe Yellen and his gang steered clear of Big Sam McKeller's Cyclone Ranch. Riding the rancher's line looking for strays meant getting a face full of double-ought buck as sure as Texas was big. But now Ol' Sam is gone and his soldier son Cale is back from the Indian Wars to run the spread. The rustlers figure they can return to cow-stealing, since no one could fill Sam McKeller's boots.Outgunned and losing ground every day, it looks like Cale is done for-until rawhide-tough frontiersman Wolfhunter Geddes rides in off the Staked Plains, offering his man-hunting skills. Hellbent on settling an old score with Yellen, the legendary killer leaves a trail of cold blood, and Cale begins to realize that the cost of hiring Geddes could be his own life. ONE OF THE EARLY WESTERN CLASSICS BY JASON MANNING, AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING FRONTIER NOVELS HIGH COUNTRY AND APACHE STORM.

Falsely branded an outlaw, mountain man Gordon Hawkes has spent years hiding out in the Colorado Rockies with his wife and daughter. But suddenly he finds his peace disturbed by old enemies and new dangers. There's trouble brewing between the United States Army and his friends, the Cheyenne. The white man has broken one treaty after another and the Cheyenne have finally had enough and are preparing themselves for war. Approached by the man who first forced him to become a fugitive, Hawkes agrees to serve as peacemaker between the two warring nations-until he realizes that the Army high command has no intention of stopping short of total extermination, and his Indian friends are going to be led to slaughter! It's a situation complicated by the love affair between the mountain man's daughter and a young, brave and principled army lieutenant. Now Hawkes has to pit his daughter's happiness and his freedom, if not his life, in a desperate effort to save his Cheyenne friends-and restore his honor. THE FIFTH EXCITING ENTRY IN JASON MANNING'S POPULAR SIX-BOOK MOUNTAIN MAN EPIC!

Kiannatah, an Apache warrior, has fallen in love with a half-breed woman and attempts to find peace in a remote mountain hideout. But the encroachment of white settlements on the forced borders of Apache lands is fanning already simmering hostilities, and Kiannatah's happiness is short-lived.Joshua Barlow has a well-deserved reputation as an Apache hunter. When Geronimo and his renegades begin to raid, rape and pillage, the U.S. government needs help to quell the uprising, and they turn to their most dangerous and determined frontier specialist.Then things go from bad to worse. When Kiannatah's love is murdered by the bluecoats, he embarks on his own campaign of vengeance, a blood feud that will result in a final and very personal reckoning between mortal enemies-the Army's toughest fighter and the most ferocious Apache of them all.THE THRILLING CONCLUSION OF THE ACCLAIMED APACHE TRILOGY BY JASON MANNING, WHICH INCLUDES APACHE STORM AND APACHE SHADOW.

A BAND OF HEROES IS DESPERATELY NEEDED IN A SAVAGE STRUGGLE TO STEM A COMANCHE BLOOBATH IN TEXAS, AND THERE HAPPENS TO BE ONE-THE BLACK JACKS. It was the worst nightmare come true for the fledgling Republic of Texas. The scattered Comanche bands have united into a mighty fighting force under a single great warrior chief and are sweeping over the vast Texas plains, avenging a massacre at the hands of the whites with a campaign of pure carnage. Sam Houston led Texans in the fight for independence from Mexico. Now he needs the assistance of the one man who has a chance of turning back the Comanche tide of terror-John Henry McAllen. McAllen and his volunteers, known as the Black Jacks, had fought side by side with Houston against Santa Anna. Retired now, they mount up and ride out to face their ultimate test, the greatest Comanche threat of all. But Houston's political foes plot in the shadows, making the trail McAllen and his men are riding even deadlier. A ROUSING AND HISTORICALLY ACCURATE NOVEL OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER BY TEXAS-BORN JASON MANNING. BE SURE TO READ THE MARAUDERS, THE SEQUEL TO THE BLACK JACKS!

After years on the move, hiding from those who falsely branded him an outlaw, Gordon Hawkes and his family at last have a real home the secluded Colorado Rockies.But everything changes when a prospector strikes it rich. Suddenly a Gold Rush hits the mountains, hard. The mining town of Gilder Gulch springs to life, teeming with greedy characters who can only mean trouble for Hawkes and his kin. But while Hawkes makes plan to move his family out of danger, his rebellious son Cameron, seduced by the dream of finding the mother lode, chooses to stay behind and stake a claim. Before long, Cameron is on the wrong side of a ruthless gang of men. And now Gordon Hawkes has to return to Gilder Gulch to wreak a terrible vengeance, and not even the U.S. Army can save the men he is out to kill. THE FOURTH BOOK IN THE GREATEST OF MOUNTAIN MAN SAGAS WHICH CONSISTS OF SIX VOLUMES AND OVER TWO THOUSAND PAGES OF COMPELLING FRONTIER DRAMA BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HIGH COUNTRY TRILOGY.

In 1806 the ambitious and charismatic Aaron Burr is plotting treason against the young American republic. He devises a scandalous plan to carve out his own private empire by detaching the western states from the Union.President Thomas Jefferson suspects Burr but needs evidence. Surrounded by political enemies, he turns to Flintlock Jones, a young but already famous Kentucky frontiersman. Enlisting the aid of a young naval officer, Lieutenant Jonathan Grove, Flintlock embarks on a perilous mission of epic proportions as he pursues Burr and the man's army of ruffians across the dark and bloody ground of Kentucky and down the deadly Natchez Trace.But before Flintlock and Groves can stop Burr, the frontiersman is confronted by a ghost from his past, who has his own very personal mission: to kill Flintlock Jones.AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL OF HIGH ADVENTURE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE UNITED STATES, WRITTEN BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING HIGH COUNTRY NOVELS.

LOVE AND REVENGE ARE POWERFUL MOTIVES-POWERFUL ENOUGH TO MAKE A MAN OF THE LAW CROSS THE LINE. Ethan Payne has drifted across the rugged American West, aching to settle down. From the wilds of the Missouri to the jungles of Panama, he left his destiny to the gods, and left Gil Stark-his best-friend-turned-outlaw-to the devil. Now, acting as Abilene's fiercely respected marshal, Payne has finally found a place to stand tall. Until a woman in need of salvation triggers an impulse like a bullet to the heart. Addicted to life's sordid pleasures, Julie Cathcott has arrived, unwanted and unexpected, from Payne's past. To Payne, she's a woman worth saving. Even if it means crossing swords with the town fathers and being cast out forever from a place he called home. But the past isn't done with Payne. In the shadow of Miss Julie's own private hell, Gil Stark is waiting. Once fate plays these kinds of games, it can turn any man into a killer. THE SECOND IN A RIVETING OLD WEST TRILOGY THAT BEGAN WITH FRONTIER ROAD, BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OUTLAW TRAIL AND TEXAS HELLTOWN.

Sometimes, no matter how much you want to be left alone, trouble finds you...Ten years after leaving home to find his future in the West, Gordon Hawkes risks going back east to pick up a package his mother left him. Attacked by a posse looking to collect the bounty on his head, Hawkes hides out among Mormons and agrees to guide them to their own promised land.The Mormons led by Brigham Young are on the run, too-from persecution for their way of life. Thousands of settlers have trekked westward before them and much of the good land has been taken. The Mormons have to settle for harsh desert but even so find themselves in violent conflict with other land-seekers.Soon enough, federal troops are sent in to restore peace. But as with Hawkes, there is no place left to go for Brigham Young and his people. As the dreams of so many men and women collide around him, the mountain man finds that his untainted country has become a battleground!>/p>SECOND IN THE EPIC SIX-BOOK MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HIGH COUNTRY AND AMERICAN BLOOD.

THEY WERE MEN WITH NOTHING TO LIVE FOR-UNTIL THEY JOINED THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOMAt a mission called the Alamo, Santa Anna's army wins a brutal victory-in a massacre that became a call to arms around the country. Brave men answered the call-Kentuckians and Cajuns, New Englanders and Tennesseans, all coming to the brawling land called Texas that was fighting for its independence from Mexico. Four men from Alabama, recruits in the volunteer Red Rovers, join the fight, too: Pierce Hammond, the cowardly son of a plantation owner; Mingo Green, a runaway slave yearning to be free; Boone Tasker, too poor to marry the woman he loves; and Gabe Cochran, a young widower with nothing left to live for. Four men who have lost everything and seek something to live for. And they will find it and fight for it, with honor, courage, and even their lives. FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE BLACK JACKS AND TEXAS GUNDOWN COMES A POWERFUL NOVEL OF MEN WHO HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE, AND EVERYTHING TO GAIN.

Trail Town JusticeAnyone would have trouble keeping the peace in the Nebraska cowtown known as "Little Texas"-even Marshal Clem Brackett. With whiskey-drunk drovers shooting up saloons, roughing up whorehouse girls, and generally raising hell every night, the lawman keeps his guns loaded and his cells full. But that was nothing compared to the trouble riding in with Texas cattle baron Tyler Kane. Two years ago Kane's brother got himself killed in a fight with a local cardsharp named Stanhouse. Now Kane is back with a passel of tough wranglers to even the score, Texas-style. Kane finds the man he wants to kill locked up in the marshal's jail for pumping a greenhorn full of lead. Waiting on circuit justice is not what Tyler had in mind, and suddenly Brackett is facing off against Kane's crew, who are hell-bent on either lynching the gambler or turning Little Texas into ashes. ONE OF THE EARLY WESTERN CLASSICS BY JASON MANNING, AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING FRONTIER NOVEL HIGH COUNTRY AND THE GORDON HAWKES MOUNTAIN MAN SERIES.

The compelling story of a man's courage tested to the limit in a merciless little war where sudden death hides behind every rock.As the Civil War begins to brew in the East, a smaller but equally vicious conflict flares up in the West. Bands of Apache warriors, their way of life threatened, have decided to die fighting and to take with them as many of their enemies as they can.It's a conflict that brings two brave and determined men together. Kiannatah, a member of Geronimo's band, once saw his entire family slaughtered by invaders. Without fear he trods the path of vengeance. Meanwhile, Lt. Joshua Barlow turns the conflict into a personal battle, willing to defy the U.S. Army to fight Apaches his own way.THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE EPIC APACHE TRILOGY, WHICH INCLUDES APACHE STRIKE AND APACHE SHADOW, BY THE AUTHOR OF HIGH COUNTRY AND MOUNTAIN PASSAGE.

Legendary mountain man Hugh Falconer loved the high country, where he lived in splendid isolation. But when he has to save a wagon train of pioneers from slaughter at the hands of a half-breed killer and a marauding Pawnee war party, everything changes. The first blizzards of winter are sweeping down from the north as Falconer leads the people he has promised to protect-and a woman he can't help but want-into a secluded mountain valley to survive until spring. He thought it would be a safe haven. But he was wrong. A man had come before them, a man who ruled the valley as his own private kingdom-a mountain man whose prowess matches Falconer's own. Falconer has a choice to make: strike a devil's bargain or engage in a no-holds-barred fight with a man who is every bit his equal-if not better. ANOTHER EPIC ADVENTURE IN THE TRILOGY OF HUGH FALCONER NOVELS THAT INCLUDES FALCONER'S LAW AND AMERICAN BLOOD.

The price of peace is sometimes paid in blood...In his years living in the wild frontier, Gordon Hawkes has become a legend among mountain men. He has raised his family in seclusion, emerging only to visit trading posts and his adoptive tribe, the Crow. But his hard-won peace and happiness are about to be threatened by the dark clouds of war...While Hawkes is escorting the Crow tribe's yearly annuity from the United States government, their cunning enemies, the Sioux, stage an ambush. Captured and enslaved, Hawkes must decide whether to live as a slave, die as a prisoner, or renounce his past life and join the Sioux tribe.His only hope rests in the hands of his son Cameron, who must find the courage to face his father's captors and bring Gordon Hawkes back alive.THE THIRD BOOK IN THE GREATEST OF MOUNTAIN MAN SAGAS WHICH CONSISTS OF SIX VOLUMES AND OVER TWO THOUSAND PAGES OF COMPELLING FRONTIER DRAMA BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HIGH COUNTRY TRILOGY.

There was just one law in Shelby County, Texas: Draw first, shoot straight or eat lead!Hanging was too good for Ma Foley and her outlaw sons. Cold-blooded killers and proud of it, this homicidal family would gun a man down as soon as look at him. Folks in Shelby County knew they were under Ma Foley's heel, and there was nothing they could do about it and expect to live. But then a federal marshal by the name of Jim Gantry rode into town with one of the Foley boys as his prisoner. Luke Foley had murdered an innocent man in cold blood, and Gantry aimed to see him swing, not just for justice but to show Ma that he was the law here, not her. Of course that meant an all-out bloody war, in which the fate of law and order in the Texas Redlands would be determined. AN OLD WEST CLASSIC BY THE POPULAR AUTHOR OF SUCH NOVELS AS REVENGE IN LITTLE TEXAS, FRONTIER ROAD AND THE GUNMASTER!

The epic clash that brought the mountain man era to a close!All Zach Hannah wants is to be left alone, high in the mountains with his Indian bride, Morning Sky. But as long as Sean Devlin is alive, Zach will find no peace. Now Zach has to track down this man, the former friend who stole his wife and left him to die at the hands of his mortal enemies, the Blackfoot Indians.It's an odyssey of vengeance that will lead him from the Yellowstone to St. Louis, along the Santa Fe Trail and back to the high country, where the mountains echo with the gunfire of a cataclysmic war.As mountain men and Blackfoot braves clash in a final epic struggle that will change the course of history in the American West, Zach and Devlin square off in a final reckoning that only one of them will survive.THE THRILLING CONCLUSION OF THE ACCLAIMED HIGH COUNTRY TRILOGY OF MOUNTAIN MAN NOVELS BY THE AUTHOR OF CLASSICS LIKE MOUNTAIN HONOR, FALCONER'S LAW AND FLINTLOCK.

It may be the twilight of the Old West but the sun's not about to set on Ethan Payne. The tough-as-nails gunslinger is still holding strong to the traditions that made him notorious. A new trade is giving him the chance to prove it-as a regulator for a Wyoming cattleman's association. But when an innocent man is killed, Payne's spirit dies along with him. Now it's the fearless outlaw who needs to be rescued. And Buffalo Bill Cody is the man to do it. A U.S. scout who rode out the Civil War in glory, Cody has become the Wild West's greatest showman. Now that he's got Payne in the act, it's only going to get wilder. The biggest draw Cody ever bankrolled, Payne is riding high once again. Especially when the tour takes him back to Chicago, and back to his first true love. But the past-like vengeance-never dies. An enemy has a score to settle. And to keep his last chance at happiness alive, Payne has to face the greatest threat of all. THE FINAL EXCITING BOOK IN THE ETHAN PAYNE TRILOGY, FOLLOWING FRONTIER ROAD AND TRAIL TOWN, WRITTEN BY THE BESTSELLING WESTERN AUTHOR OF CLASSICS LIKE TEXAS HELLTOWN AND THE OUTLAW TRAIL.

NOT ALL WARS ARE CIVIL...In a desert outpost north of Tucson, an encampment of peaceful Apaches is slaughtered by a bloodthirsty band of white vigilantes. Now the brilliant and ruthless war chief Cochise gathers his renegades and prepares for payback. Savage war is about to break out. But there are some on both sides who strive to keep the peace.One of these is Cochise's son-in-law, Lieutenant Joshua Barlow. Until, that is, his Apache bride is taken by Kiannatah, the renegade who has waged a one-man vendetta against Americans, Mexicans, and even his own kind, vengeance for the loss of all he held dear.Now Barlow has his own a score to settle. He rides through a land torn by savagery and drenched with blood to meet his fate in the Sierra Madre, a stretch of hell that no lone white man has ever survived.ANOTHER EPIC ADVENTURE IN THE APACHE TRILOGY, WHICH INCLUDES APACHE STORM AND APACHE STRIKE.

Clay Colbry has been a lot of things, some good, some bad. But now he's just a drifter who stumbles into the middle of a bloody Apache uprising. Not only had he been a scout for the U.S. Army, he had also been raised by Apaches, so he knows just how bad the situation is going to get. But things go from bad to worse when he finds out an outlaw gang led by the ruthless Bass Giles is stealing Sierra Stage Company stock and selling the horses to the outlaws. Giles and his cutthroats have taken over the town of Furnace Creek as a base of operations and are bleeding it dry. Colbry's job is to root them out. It's pretty much a suicide mission, but Colbry takes it on. He has an old score to settle with Giles and nothing-not the desert, not the Apache raiders, and not the small army of hardcases who follow Giles-is going to stop him from wreaking a terrible vengeance. THE CLASSIC WESTERN THAT LAUNCHED THE CAREER OF ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND PROLIFIC WRITERS IN THE GENRE, THE AUTHOR OF LOBO RILER, LAST CHANCE AND THE OUTLAW TRAIL.

For one American hero, war brings the ends of innocence... In 1814 the U.S. Army is not much more than a ragtag collection of brave men and boys bound by blood, duty, and more than a little luck. The army's commander, Andrew Jackson, has turned his attention from the waning British threat to a conflict closer to home. "Old Hickory" hopes to capture and punish the Red Stick Creek Indians responsible for murdering American long hunters caught on their home soil. Lieutenant Timothy Barlow has just graduated from West Point, full of fine ideals, long on knowledge, but woefully short of experience. In Indian country, this combination could prove fatal. Barlow performs heroically at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, but when he is ordered to pillage a peaceful Indian camp, his conscience gets the better of him. Then his troops take matters into their own hands and Barlow has to find a way to preserve his honor, justify Andy Jackson's faith in him, and survive what will be known as the First Seminole War. THE FIRST IN A THRILLING NEW TRILOGY OF THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER THAT INCLUDES THE FIRE-EATERS AND THE WAR LOVERS, BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FLINTLOCK AND HIGH COUNTRY.

Sometimes a man has to risk all he cherishes for God and country. He had fought and bled for his country. He had been a war hero and a congressman. He had battled the southern Nullifiers to keep the young United States from splintering. He was the right-hand man of President Andrew Jackson. But now Timothy Barlow has put aside his uniform to lead an easier life on a sprawling Georgia plantation, married to a beautiful Southern belle. With his public service behind him, Barlow intends to spoil the woman he loves, raise a family, and live in peace and prosperity. But yet another war is brewing. Mexico, Britain and France have eyes on the fledgling Republic of Texas and U.S. President Polk will have none of that. The country needs its heroes once again, and Barlow reluctantly dusts off his uniform for one last hurrah. A ROUSING HISTORICAL NOVEL, THE FINAL ENTRY IN THE POPULAR BARLOW TRILOGY WHICH INCLUDES THE LONG HUNTERS AND WAR LOVERS.

With the Civil War raging in the East, the Confederacy is in desperate need for Union gold coming overland from California through Fort Yuma in the Arizona Territory. With the help of Southern spies and sympathizers, Alkali Jim Sullivan and his gang of bushwhackers are robbing the Wells Fargo gold shipments. Only one man has the gumption to stand against the killers. His name is John Clayton Lonaker, a man known for raw courage and a fast gun. Lonaker signs on to ride shotgun with the newest gold shipment along the Oxbow Route to Yuma, being transported in a iron-plated war wagon. Of course, Sullivan and his cutthroats want that gold, and the attempted robbery becomes a running battle across the worst stretch of desert in the territory. Lonaker is facing impossible odds. But that's never stopped him. He's dead-set on ending the Rebel threat in a epic showdown at Seven Springs. YET ANOTHER CLASSIC WESTERN PENNED BY THE AUTHOR OF TRAIL TOWN, GUN JUSTICE AND REVENGE IN LITTLE TEXAS!

Star Force pilot and hero Wyatt McCoy left his medals and career behind after the Rim Wars, disillusioned and bitter when he learns the truths behind the conflict. He takes his converted gunship, the Nellie B, and heads to the Near Fringe, salvaging derelict ships and abandoned stations and mining colonies. Dr. Beth Parker is a space archeologist, documenting the history of planetary expansion and colonization for Kalok Enterprises and the Interplanetary Mining Guild. A piece of alien technology embeds itself in Beth's arm, giving her the ability to see the energy impressions of long ago people and events. When Beth uncovers proof of genocide that could bring down the big mining companies, she's the target of assassins. Wyatt makes a split-second decision to intervene, launching them both into a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with some of the most powerful organizations in the system. They can prove Kalok and Interplan killed millions-but can they live long enough to tell their story?

1846. The territory of New Mexico has fallen to United States forces. Hugh Falconer-tracker, trapper, explorer, mountain man-rides to Taos to rendezvous with old friends at the wilderness outpost of Turley's Mill. On the way he picks up a job shepherding Delgado McKinn, a young man with more courage than common sense, back to his wealthy father. Falconer doesn't know it but he's heading into a deadly trap. Mexicans and Indians have united against the new American lords of the land. The Taos Revolt throws the capital of Santa Fe into turmoil. Governor Charley Bent and others are murdered. And Turley's Mill is slated to become a tomb for the mountain men gathered there.Falconer finds himself among the handful of trappers and traders, his friend Delgado among them, surrounded by an angry mob bent on spilling their blood. Nine men standing against hundreds.Maybe they would die, but not like rats in a trap. They would die like men-mountain men.THE THIRD EPIC ADVENTURE IN THE HUGH FALCONER SERIES, FOLLOWING FALCONER'S LAW AND PROMISED LAND, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ACCLAIMED HIGH COUNTRY FRONTIER NOVELS.

Word came to cowpuncher Dave Wallace that his friend Tip Macy had frozen to death in a blizzard. Wallace knew it was a damn lie. That's why he had a chip on his shoulder and a .44 at his side when he rode into town. But all that got him was a fast trip to the hoosegow on a trumped-up murder charge. With the hanging tree waiting, he had two chances of staying alive: slim and none. Then Lady Luck upped his odds. Her name was Beth...a gal hardhearted and pretty, and his last hope of getting free to hunt a killer down.

With a smoking rifle and a stinging lash, it was Gannon's job to cut a path through the outlaw gangs grown thick as a mesquite over the Midland stage route. The final challenge came when a hardcase crew knocked over one of his coaches carrying a heavy load of gleaming double eagles. But this time they didn't just take the gold-they gutshot Gannon's men and left them to die in agony. The bandits had shown no mercy. Neither would Gannon. Now they would have a free-wheeling range war that could only end in a triple hanging...or a funeral for Will Gannon.

"Trouble I asked for. Trouble I owed. Trouble I'm glad I had."This is Hanaway speaking. Hanaway-a new kind of hero for the Old West. A big man with a big conscience-as big as the West. He's tall, long-jawed, stubble-bearded, covered with dust. He ain't handsome but he's pleasant. Even when he rides into a Cowtown on a dead man's errand: clean up the dirty business surrounding the Kittrick Consolidated Gold Mine. Nothing stops Hanaway-not the sheriff, not the town, not a killer, not even a pretty little lady named Carrie.

They wanted his land. They should have taken his life.He'd shot to defend his property. Now Hobe Carew was wanted by the law. First Hobe found an ally in a half-breed named Jim. Then he found a friend in a runaway girl and a good reason to come back to Two Rivers, where his cabin had been burned down. Lew Seely owned half the grass in the county; now he wanted Hobe's. But Seely just couldn't fathom a small man's will to take a stand, or the kind of battle that was about to blaze in the dust.