When an old friend's family is massacred, legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen hits the vengeance trail. He's soon riding into a bloody Colorado war that has militia cavalry volunteers and Kiowa warriors stalking each other across the territory

In this Ralph Compton western, home is a battlefield....
Buck Fletcher, infamous shootist, was once a boy raised in a cabin near Two-Bit Creek in Montana. Returning home to pay his respects at his parents' graves, Buck finds an unconscious woman in the woods—bleeding from a head wound. She might be the victim of a range war that’s brewing in the territory.
 
Buck soon finds himself drawn into the escalating conflict—courted...

During an early winter blizzard, Smoke Jensen, escorting three thousand head of cattle to their new destination, is attacked by a renegade Cheyenne warrior and discovers that there is a bounty on his head.

Hard Trail to Follow is the seventh novel in Elmer Kelton's acclaimed "Texas Ranger" series from Elmer Kelton Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, called "Badger Boy" when he lived with Comanches as a child, is following the plow on West Texas land until he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak. The escaped bank robbers are led by a man calling himself Cordell. Andy gets reinstated as a Ranger so he can catch...

John Allen wants to be a wrangler more than anything in the world. He has toiled in Kansas coal mines and worked as a gunsmith's apprentice. His yearnings take him to the drought-striken Wyoming grasslands where he is caught up in the war between ranchers and a daring band of rustlers

Roy Blanton has raised his four boys in the family business since they were half-pints - and they've gotten away with murder. That is, until U .S. Deputy Marshal Casey Dixon had hot-headed Billy, the youngest, hanged for shooting a policeman. Now the Blantons have vengeance on their minds. Old Buck Avery, Dixon's partner, had been thinking of turning in his badge. And taking down the Blanton name sounds like a fine way to leave the law on a high note....

With a lot of rustling in the area, tensions are high and rumors are flying. Word's going around that some of the larger ranchers have hired gunman Wolf Carlton to protect their cattle. And now a couple of the smaller ranchers have been found shot to death. Unfortunately for Spencer Prescott, some people think he's the one killing the competition, not Wolf. Worse, some think Spencer is behind the rustling - which means Wolf will be looking to put...

Cotton Pickens is a lawman who's lost his badge, but when he discovers a plot to take over his town of Doubtful Wyoming, he takes the law into his own hands.

Malcolm Theodore Puddle is a 21-year shipping clerk from way back East. The Mountain Man's former neighbor, Humbolt Puddle, has died and left his crumbling 600-acre ranch to his only living heir just as a greedy and ruthless cattle baron began circling it like a vulture. Smoke is the not the pitying kind but poor, unsuspecting Puddle is walking into a death trap. Any enemy of Smoke's neighbor is his enemy, too, and kill-crazy hired gunmen are threatening...

Chet Redleaf, marshal of Mandan, is part Indian. When someone steals $4000 from the local stage while the driver and guard worked on a wheel, Lester Riley, a freighter who is being delayed in Mandan from taking his cartage, sides the marshal in the investigation. Going to the scene of the robbery, they are perplexed to find that the men who stole the money box left tracks - moccasin tracks. But there is no Indian tribe in the vicinity. There are some...