On the trail of Theo McSween, the man who loved and then left his sister, Frank Goodnight rides into Sherman City, Wyoming, certain that McSween is hiding out with the Wild Bunch, a gang of outlaws....
Jim Keene had travelled 1000 miles to get aw ay from trouble, only to find it waiting for him at the end of the trail. The smell of death perfumed the air when he ro de into Cloud Valley, where a blood feud threatened to blow the territory sky high. ...
Man in the Saddle tells the story of a small-time rancher resisting the efforts of a ranching magnate bent on buying him out and, when that fails, squeezing him out of business by any means possible. When pushed to the wall, the hero is forced to res...
This is the story of two men, best friends, who must ride to a bloody confrontation on a cold and starless night. At Head of Mountain their trails are destined to cross, and for one of them the trail will end there....
Chatto was an outlaw but he had never killed a man without warning. Now he gave an ultimatum to Lin Ballou. Chatto was playing a high-stake game but Ballou had something more important and risky going for him - something that could save the ranchers ...
Lily Tennant came to Nevada to escape from civilization. She found herself in love with a violent, untamed Westerner. He owned the great Barrier ranch. The Barrier was rocked by the vicious assaults of land hungry Buffalo Galt. Lily decided that no m...
A man named Clint. He took a step forward and spoke harshly; "You're trapped. Give in -- or fight!" The night was streaked by tangled shadows as -- Curly's bunch broke, wheeled and raced for cover. A gun flash mushroomed out and then a long, ragged...
THE LAW WAS AGAINST HIM. -- Eight years ago Hugh Kingmead had been a scared kid fighting to keep his small ranch. But he was no match for the ruthless landgrabber who wanted it. Falsely accused of a murder he didn't commit, Kingmead left the county...
Frank Peace was the trouble shooter for the Union Pacific, hand-picked as the only man in the West who c ould get the railroad over a thousand miles of rugged desert and treacherous mountains....
A keen mind, a cool head and a steady gun-hand stood between him and death! -- It was war - a range war with the best Dakota grazing land as the winner's prize and a dusty bullet-ridden death to console the loser. Tom Gillette rode at his father's ...
End of the trail for the men who rode in with Texas cattle was River Bend, a place where they could quench a thousand-mile thirst for whiskey, women, and wide-open gambling. Dan Mitchell wore the sheriff's badge in this lusty trail town, scene of a s...
To Mark Sheridan, as he sailed north out of Frisco, the Oregon of 1865 meant wide-open opportunity for a determined man. He didn't give much thought to other people--like his shipboard acquaintances George Revelwood, who was a little too charming to ...
FLAMING GUNS! -- Neel St. Cloud, fired up by his feud with Dan Bellew, had plans to turn Bellew's peaceful valley into an outlaw strip ruled by guns and fear. -- First he put his bought-and-paid-for sheriff into office. Then he imported an army o...
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The American pioneer experience is explored in a series of interconnected short stories about Burnt Creek, a small crossroads town in central Oregon populated by a colorful and indominable group of homesteaders, including merchant, postmaster, and tr...
Here are nine stories of the pioneer West and the men and women who rode its plains, tamed its forests, faced its dangers, and found love in the wilderness. One tells of a mothers love for her son; one of a bitter marriage; another of a warm and fumb...
Rumors of a campaign against Sitting Bull cut through the ranks like a cold wind. Who would lead the charge? In Bugles in the Afternoon, legendary Western writer Ernest Haycox relates a compelling tale of Custer’s famed Seventh Cavalry and its ...
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PERIL PRESS presents: Short Stories, April 25th 1929 INVITATION BY BULLET by Ernest Haycox Invitation was by bullet only to Old Rube Mamerock's fandango at the Ox Bow Ranch. Whether they stayed by reason of another slug was up to the guests themselv...
Two Ernest Haycox westerns in one collection
"Scout Detail"
Lieutenant Parke Stobo was assigned to take twenty-five men, a guide, and three days' rations into the mesquites by way of Pete Kempel's ranch. Stobo was also instructed to give...
He could not deny it. He could not hide it. He was running from trouble-sheriff trouble. Seeing the hunted look in Jim Reno's eyes, almost smelling the posse dogging his heels, Pete Vilas was certain he'd at last found the man he could send into the ...
The murder of Ike France left his IF spread without a boss. And without protection. Immediately, three powerful men reckoned the fight for control was over, and moved in on the ranch like buzzards. Then Ike's nephew, John France, arrived in town....
Range War!! The feud was on. Young men thrilled at the thought of blazing guns. Old men remembered the last bloddy range war, when bodies littered the ground and young widows cursed all men, friend and foe. Each clan as pledged to wipe out the other ...
Cattleman Ben Herendeen and his home-made posse weren't content with just planting a few two-bit rustler s six feet under. Soon every drifter, homesteader and haywire rider who stood in their way would get a taste of the vigilantes' murderous justice...
Ernest Haycox was a prolific writer of Western fiction, and a best-selling author of the early 20th century. His 1937 story, 'Stage to Lordsburg', was adapted two years later by John Ford into the movie Stagecoach, which featured John Wayne in his br...