Zane Grey

Arriving in the desert at the foot of Black Mesa, two men--one hiding from a shady past and the other running from a haunting memory--start a cattle ranch, but a ruthless trader and wild women could ruin their prospects.

Against the epic backdrop of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across plains and deserts and through the mountains to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah comes a sprawling, historical tale. Warren Neale is a brilliant civil engineer who is constantly confronted with construction problems. He is sided by Larry Red King, a Texas gunfighter and friend. Allie Lee, who is heading east from California on a wagon train, is the sole survivor...

When Gloriana Traft came to Arizona to visit her tenderfoot brother Jim, trouble was rampant in Yellow Jacket. The notorious Hash Knife Outfit of rustlers and gunmen were stealing the ranchers' cattle and terrorizing the beautiful valley. But Gloriana, innocent to the brutal ways of the West, wanted to meet a real desperado. And when she did, Gloriana was the frightened captive of the most dangerous killer of the gang, and facing an ordeal that would...

Mountains, sage of the Utah desert and the pursuit of a wild stallion.

Falsely accused of murdering Allen Neece, cowboy Brazos Keene had narrowly escaped a lynch mob. With his name at last cleared, Keene discovered that Neece's twin sisters had lost their ranch and were struggling unsuccessfully to run a restaurant. Brazos made a pledge to track down their brother's killers and get the ranch back. So he became target practice for a band of ruthless rustlers. But Brazos also found himself hopelessly in love with both...

After Lance Sidway comes to beautiful Madge Stewart's defense and ends up on the wrong side of the law, he escapes to Arizona and finds work on her father's ranch. Madge is kidnapped by a gang of cattle rustlers, and Sidway must intervene once again to save her life--even at the cost of his own.

In New Mexico, Trueman Rock seeks to bring a rustling family to justice, but then he falls in love with the daughter.

He was called Nevada, a name he took to lose his past. As a boy he had been thrown among brutal and evil men. He had worked himself above their influence time and again, only to be thrown back, by his own desire for justice of vengeance, into the midst of strife. With a new identity he made a new reputation, but old troubles and old enemies haunted him wherever he went. Nevada was the quiet type who would rather work hard and plan for better days....