He was a tall son-taller than most men by a head, with a look of wildness in his battered, tough face. He was Tom Buchanan out of West Texas, who fought with joy and loved with gusto-who many times had gone to meet death without pause and with great ...
Bella was quite a town, a free-wheeling, lusty young hell, the kind of town Tom Buchanan pleasured in.
But then it turned ugly and made the mistake of angering Buchanan -- and when the smoke cleared away there was nothing much left but whol...
The armed deputy prodded Buchanan out of the cell. “We’re taking care of scudders like you who try to buck the law. We’re putting you on trial. A judge, a jury, the whole shebang.”
And the whole shebang was a frame-up. The self-appo...
He stepped back and gazed at the tall, smiling man with wonderment. He had just seen him lick the most deadly gunslinger in the West with his bare fists. "Where'd you come from?" he asked admiringly. "No place in particular," Buchanan said. "Is that ...
Malvaise narrowed his eyes. “So you think you’re the man to take on the job of getting rid of me and my boys, do you?” he said to Buchanan. “I never saw a fast gun yet that didn’t meet up with a faster one.”
“Amen, brother,...
They said in Texas that Tom Buchanan ate wildcat for breakfast and that he was slow to anger -- like a rattler dozing in the desert sun.
But now every saloon and dance hall had heard the news: Buchanan was cleaning his guns. The genial gian...
It was hot enough to burn rawhide, and lizards were frying on flat rocks. It was, Buchanan decided, just about two degrees fiercer than hell, and if he could keep going for another half an hour he’d allow himself a drink from his canteen.He was...
WesternLarge Print EditionBuchanans first job as a Texas Ranger was to head to the small town of Scottsville to stop a war there. Even before Major Jones finished giving him his orders, Buchanan knew he would find Scottsville to be hostile territory....
When Buchanan grubstaked Mousetrap Mulligan he never thought he’d see his money again. He never thought the old man would hit paydirt. But he did—and that was bad news for Buchanan. Because a lonely old desert rat with a hidden cache of n...
The killers had taken over the town, lock, stock, and barrel - and they weren't going to leave until there was nothing left to loot. They had the bank and the saloon and the sheriff's office and the poker game. And you had to like it or you ended up ...
One of the best heroes of western fiction is once again engaged in a battle that he would prefer to avoid. Buchanan is a peaceable man; however, the rest of the world is not. A man named Bradbury sent for him with the reasons being unknown. There is ...
Big Jim's men had gunned down O'Brien and shot Buchanan in the back. Buchanan lay on the floor, bracing himself on one elbow. He heard Big Jim say,, "no, don't kill him. Get his gun. Fire another shot into O'Brien. We want hanged." But Buchanan had n...
The armed deputy prodded Buchanan out of the cell. “We’re taking care of scudders like you who try to buck the law. We’re putting you on trial. A judge, a jury, the whole shebang.”
And the whole shebang was a frame-up. The self-appo...
“There ain’t no man bigger’n Buchanan. He might be taller than Buchanan. He might be wider than Buchanan. He might be heavier than Buchanan. But there ain’t nobody in the whole world bigger than Buchanan.”Buchanan was a ...
Demetrius and his gang of vicious cutthroats had already attempted to steal Lu Lacy’s herd. Then they attacked Lu herself …That’s when Buchanan and his partner, the prizefighter Coco Bean, rode in.Before long, Buchanan was acting as...
“I just seen a man whup our entire police force. Tooken their guns away and just plain whupped ’em.”That man was Buchanan. He wasn’t looking for trouble. It came to him. When the crooked Dodge City deputies tried to push him around, he just n...
A fortune in gold bullion, silver plate, and jewels beyond price ... This was the fabled Cuesta treasure. Men had died for it a century before. Then it had disappeared--hidden somewhere near the Cuesta ranch in Texas. Now, men were beginning to hunt ...
"You know a man named Buchanan?" "Ev'body knows Buchanan!' "I want him killed on sight. I want the Apaches wiped out, no witnesses. Anyone else who gets in the way -- you know what to do." Buchanan had ridden the big black horse a long way. Now...
Six feet four inches tall, with sandy hair and greenish eyes. He had been on the frontier since he was fourteen and bore the scars of a hundred battles. But in his heart, Buchanan was a peaceable man.It’s just that trouble and danger seemed to ...
An army of hired killers, in the pay of Don Porado, were trying to take over the land, murdering and stealing from anyone who refused to be bought. They had damn’ near killed Tom Buchanan’s godson, Billy, and threatened to destroy his hom...
“Buchanan, we all know about that little gun in your belt buckle. Put your hands behind your head.”The crowd had come to see Buchanan’s buddy, Coco Bean, fight in the ring. The Cutler gang, however, wasn’t interested in the od...
With his saddle partner, Coco Bean, Tom Buchanan rides into the middle of a brutal graze war between cattleman and sheep man. In the end, it’s a little black sheep that helps Tom choose sides. And with Buchanan on your side odds make no never m...
When hard-traveling Tom Buchanan and his two-fisted saddle partner, Coco Bean, rode into El Paso, flush with the winnings from Coco’s last prize fight, they found Ebenezar Shaw, an old friend and proprietor of the Grace Stage Line, in some mean...