The vicious marshal and the angry posse were hell-bent on stringing up Lake Oliver for a killing he hadn't committed. Admittedly he was an ex-convict, but he was now back on the straight and narrow--so why were the robbery and death of a banker being blamed on him? Oliver had to slip through the fingers of the posse and find out, he needed to trap the real culprit. Although he as wounded, he was aided by pretty rancher Julie Carr, and he might...

Jim Strike and his partner Arlie Silvershell aim to carve a ranch out of the lush Tenkiller country of southern New Mexico, but the odds were against them--and so was Silvershell's haughty, ruthless wife.

Contents: Lost brother; a man called America Jones

Wilkinson is a merciless seven-foot-tall brute, three hundred pounds of murderous outlaw. But a lone law man, cool and controlled, is on Wilkinson's trail. That man is John Rye, the Doomsday Marshal.

In the title story, "Fire Valley", Dave Ruskin arrives in Fire Valley in the New Mexico Territory to take possession of the ranch he inherited from his uncle, Saul Gans. In "Range Feud", Dan Ragan has a reputation as a gunman who won't go out of his way to avoid trouble.

Luke Brazil, an ex-lawman and one-time bounty hunter, is shunned by the "respectable" townspeople of Moriah, until their marshal is killed. They thenask Luke to defend the town against a group of wild cowhands who are tearing the town apart.

Ben Sutton's law: "concerns a territorial marshal summoned to Mexican Springs to intervene in violence that has broken out between cattle ranchers and nesters. Even before he arrives at his destination, sutton has a bloody encounter with members of the Denison gang who are intent on revenge after an earlier encounter. sutton's mission is to be kept secret, so he cannot share information with or seek the assistance of the local sheriff. This isolation...