Desert Rider — Ray Hogan

The Outside Gun concerns Dan Wade who once worked for Big Bill Krask's Double K Ranch, but left because there was little chance for advancement. Then a letter comes to Wade in Abilene, asking him to come back to Burnt Springs to help out with a problem.

In Desert Rider everything changed for John Banning, marshal of Yucca Flats, when the Wind River gang held up the bank and shot young Davey Culwell, his nephew. The gang heads out into the desert and the other posse members do not want to continue the pursuit. That means John Banning is going to have to go it alone, greatly outnumbered, and without enough water to last him in his pursuit.