Joanna O'Keefe journeys to New Mexico to meet up with her husband at the Circle MC, but when she arrives she finds her husband has been murdered, and it is up to Joanna to drive the cattle across the Mojave Desert to San Diego.

The son of a gunfighter is warned by his family not to follow in his father's footsteps, but fate deems otherwise, although it does give him a chance to redeem himself. Written in 1913, the story was rejected by publishers of the day as too violent.

Arriving in Denver City, Colorado, at the start of the Civil War, Clee Farr finds the townspeople torn apart by loyalties to North and South.

A collection of seven short western stories by Peter Dawson.

Gossip and worry abound in Nugget City, a Colorado mining town that has made the transition to a ranching community, with the arrival of a mysterious stranger with two guns. Why has this gunfighter chosen to come to Nugget City? Some believe he might be the latest recruit in a range war that has been brewing for some time. Matters are only further complicated by Cathy Alle, the local seamstree, who confronts the avaricious town banker with a threat...

James Giraldi is a thief. One that steals from other thieves. He is begged to help find Louise Asprey's father and refuse the ten thousand dollars to locate the man, until a cold-blooded mercenary named Dick Renney takes the case.

"The story that opens this Western trio, ABOVE THE LAW, is the first that Max Brand ever wrote, marking the beginning of a long and distinguished career. In it, an actress finds herself in the West and taken prisoner by Black Jim, a notorious bandit. ONE MAN POSSE is about a man nicknamed Sleeper. Thought to be lazy and shiftless, Sleeper is anything but-and he surprises everyone with his cleverness and endurance when he goes up against Charlie Loder,...