From one of the West's greatest living storytellers, winner of numerous awards, including the Spur, the Golden Saddleman, and the Western Heritage Award, here is Elmer Kelton's magnificent new novel of the wildcat West Texas oil boom of the 1920s. It used to be that the worst crime in Caprock was moonshining or lying about your Saturday night date on Sunday morning-until someone struck oil. Now the scent of the stuff has brought every dreamer, drifter,...

Publisher Annotation: Restless cowpoke Perley Gates wanted nothing more than to track down the grandfather who abandoned his family years ago. What he found was the crazy old sidewinder barely hanging on after a Sioux massacre. The old man?s dying wish was to make things right for deserting his kin?by giving his strong-willed grandson Perley clues to the whereabouts of a buried fortune in gold. Finding his grandfather?s legacy will set up his family...

A rogue agent has come in from the cold and wants to spill his secrets. The Organisation wants Ishmael Jones to find out if Frank Parker is who he says he is, and why he has emerged from the shadows after all this time. But when Ishmael reaches Ringstone Lodge where Parker is being held, he is menaced by a series of alarming incidents.

"The territorial governor has sent three lawmen to clean up the mess that is Chico, New Mexico and not one of those lawmen has made it out alive. A crooked sheriff has the terrified denizens of Chico under his boot heel, so the governor turns to John Henry Sixkiller, sending him undercover as a gunman for hire. So far, Sixkiller has bloodied his opponents in every battle he has fought in the Southwest. But this one could affect the entire country:...

Twelve years ago, newspaperman John Bryce saved an innocent man from the hangman's noose. That man was Matt Jensen. In gratitude, Matt gave Bryce four gold nuggets and told him "If there's ever anything I can do, just let me know." Now, that day has come. As editor of the Fullerton Defender, Bryce has become the target of a powerful and ruthless English lord. A feared master duelist, his aim is fixed on the Dakota Territories. His weapons are intimidation...

From America's greatest storytellers comes a bold new chapter in the Will Tanner saga, an epic quest for justice at the crossroads of history-in a crossfire of bullets… DAY OF THE AVENGER U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner earned his badge the old-fashioned way. He shot the bad guys, saved the good guys, and won the fear and respect of everyone in between. That's how legends are born. But when he visits a friend at his ranch and ends up confronting...

Heading to Colorado Wes Stone follows a band or mercenaries from Durango to Dodge City who are planning to steal gold from four U.S. mints with an armoured train.

"Yakima Henry may be tougher than anyone else in the Arizona Territory-- as a half-white, half-Indian man, he has to be. So when a pack of thieving curs leaves him in rough country minus one prized horse and two well-worn boots, he aims to get back what's his. The hell Yakima raises in the process lands him in jail, but opportunity is about to spring him out. Wealthy Cleve O'Shannon and his lovely wife, Ashley, have a proposition for Yakima. Cleve's...

"Cotton Pickens' parents had a cussed sense of humor, but there's nothing funny about the way the man can draw a gun. Now he's in the middle of a mining camp district slowly being crushed under the iron fist of another misnamed, hard headed fellow, Carter Scruples. With Cotton facing off against Scruples, a beautiful young woman caught in-between, and a band of outlaws living high and mighty in a dry-docked Pullman Palace Car, the town of Swamp Creek...

Now president of the United States, Arthur Pendragon, the Once and Future King, again takes up his quest for the Holy Grail in order to save the life of his beloved wife, Gwen, left at death's door following an assassination attempt.