To a man like Cole Dagget, eight hundred dollars meant a lot of hard hours in the saddle - and just enough to return to Texas, settle down and get married. So when the money was stolen from him in a small-town holdup, there was no way he was going to let the robbers just ride off with it. And he wasn't about to wait for the people of Solitude to form a posse. Riding out alone, Cole couldn't guess that when the posse caught up they would mistake him...

When veteran gunsmith George Washington Mars crafts a Colt revolver that will fire when only half-cocked, giving its wielder a quick-draw advantage, he has no way of knowing that the gun, and its legend, will take on a life of their own.

It takes a special breed of man to survive in the wilds of the American frontier. A man like Nate King has the courage, the strength, and the skills he needs to endure the hardships of the magnificent Rockies. But the four cutthroats who heard about Nate paying for provisions with gold don't plan to make it on their own. They figure they can get Nate's gold for themselves. When they kidnap Nate's younger daughter they think they've struck it rich....

Nate King embarks on a perilous journey through the Rockies to track a huge grizzly bear that has been terrorizing the Utes, but he gets more than he bargained for when he comes face-to-face with the eerily clever creature.

Deputy Luke Cable's job has gotten a whole lot harder lately. He's been acting marshal since Marshal Ben Keely left on a trip east -- and disappeared. It's up to Luke to keep the peace, and that's hard to do since the arrival of the Outlaw Train, a traveling collection of curiosities, including the remains of notorious outlaws. But not all the outlaws in town are dead. Scar Nolan is very much alive. He came to town right after the train pulled in....