Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter--until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search of gold. After Matt signs on to join them, he discovers that there is a group of outlaws in the party--gunfighters and thieves that Matt wouldn't trust for a minute. At first it's...

Chantry came home to a murdered brother and a couple of squatters. Then the Mowatt gang moved in. They were looking for his brother's buried treasure. Chantry was going to lead them to it. Or else. Owen Chantry arrives at his brother Clive's ranch to find him murdered and two squatters occupying his cabin. The unlikely trio -- and a beautiful stranger -- soon find themselves in a deadly feud with Clive's killers, the Mowatt gang, who return in search...

They had him cornered-up on a canyon rim with no way to go but down! There was a rock big as a buckboard right on the edge of the cliff. Trace Jordan bent, took hold and heaved. he felt his wound bust loose, but the rock rolled free. There was the rattle of stones behind it, then the echoing screams of a man and horse falling away in the darkness.

"Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in good of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness of cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers,...

In this classic L'Amour adventure, a dark-eyed drifter wages a war against a murderous band of rustlers. As far as the eye could see was a vast, lonely horizon. And Evie Teale and her two children were all alone here now, alone in an untamed country where the elements, the Indians, and the thieves made it far easier to die than to live. But soon a man named Conagher would drift into her life -- and together they would have the courage to make a stand....

A drifter, reckless and hard, had vengeance on his mind. Some citizens from the last town had left him twisting slowly from an unjust noose. He had escaped and was returning to that town to make them sorry they hadn't finished the job.

The setting of A Man Called Trent is New Mexico. The story opens to a nester, Dick Moffitt, dead, killed by King Bill Hale's riders. Sally Crane, sixteen and adopted by Moffitt, and Moffitt's fourteen-year-old son Jack witnessed Moffitt's murder from hiding, and then went to a cabin owned by a man named Trent for safety. Trent is actually Lance Kilkenny, a gunfighter hoping to leave behind his reputation. King Bill Hale has decided that he wants the...

Dramatizes the adventures and hardships of men andwomen facing the challenges of westward settlement in nineteenth-century America.

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." Here are three more of his fine short stories about the West. In West of the Tularosa, Ward McQueen, foreman for the Tumbling K, is accused of killing a nearby rancher and he's going to need some help to prove his innocence. In Home in the Valley, Steve Mehan can still recoup the money to save five ranches back...

Trap of gold: A prospector attempts to mine gold without being buried alive. Trail to Pie Town: While on the run, Dusty Barron meets a pretty girl and helps her get the land that's rightfully hers.