Zeke Hill returns home to Redboot Ranch aftera long absence, but his enemy, Charlie Bickford, is stillthere. They have a fight and Bickford is killed. Hill andhis brother, Gene, make the death look an accident, butthe secret creates a chasm between them.

When he was a boy, Edward Dawes saw his grandfather murdered. Now, after a chance meeting, Dawes knows the murderer is alive and nearby, and he won't rest until the killer pays for his crime.

Double deceit: A man named Dunbar comes to Temple Basin where he goes to work for an old rancher who is laid up with a broken leg. The rancher's granddaughter tells the story. After one man turns up dead and another man is known to have gone missing, it becomes known that Dunbar has come on a mission to find a killer and bring him to justice. Scarecrows: Tommy Stallings hears his aunt and uncle in Texas are in trouble. He and his cousin, Rusty, leave...

"They are the stuff of legend, thundering out of the harsh landscapes and stunning vistas of the American West, vividly lodged in our collective imaginations. From Buffalo Bill to Billy the Kid, from Cochise to Jesse James, these names and so many others screamed across newspaper and dime store magazine headlines while the Wild West was won. Lost Trails features inventive, hard-riding, action-packed stories by America's best Western writers. Louis...