Nelson C Nye
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"When Hardigan rode into Tucson, Arizona, he was surprised to receive an unusual proposition from a most unusual young woman. Hardigan was no one's fool. He could look at a situation straight-on without so much as flinching. But he had never met anyone like Wendy Eldridge before. She was strong-willed, cunning as a fox, and could manipulate people as if they were puppets. Because of debts run up by her father before his death, Wendy's ranch was heavily...
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"Had the man who arrived in Tonto Basin on the night Juke Ronstadt was murdered been an ordinary cowpuncher, the forces out to grab a cattle empire very likely would have killed him. But he was Bufe Telldane, ex-lawman, ex-outlaw, and about the deadliest man with a gun. So they tried their hands at framing him"--
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"Bancroft Benson was a con man, glib enough to talk himself into half ownership of a ranch on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. Now that he was an established land owner, he was ready for the next time the Rio Grande changed its course and cut a more southerly path into Mexico. Since the river was his boundary, the change would give him more land as long as the Mexican landowner didn't decide to become an American and retain his claim on the banco....
8) Smoke talk
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"Steve Rambo, hard and determined, came to the town of Post Oak, looking for a man to kill. He had stayed on quietly, taking a job with the Swallowford outfit as cover for his presence, waiting for the fellow to show his hand. Somewhere in this high hill country lurked Deuce Kramer, who was responsible for the death of Rambo's sister. But Rambo was to find his job complicated by a battle being waged between Forko Fox and his Swallowford outfit and...
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"When "Slow-Down" Munn, deputy U. S. marshal, arrives one night in the hell-bending copper camp of Laughing Horse, it is with the intention of posing as a drifting smokeroo and hiring out his pistols to Sheriff Loma Jack, who it seems is powerless to check the turbulent stream of killings, robberies and other criminal acts which are swiftly giving his county seat a most unenviable reputation. But hardly has Munn walked his pony the length of the town's...
15) Born to trouble
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Captain Murphey didn't want Jim Trammell to join the Rangers. But Jim was persistent. When Caroline Krole needs help finding her uncle, Murphey promises to send assistance. Jim is determined to solve the case or die trying.
20) The Texas gun
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"Sheep were on the move and the tempers of hard-pressed cowmen were on the rise. Drought had hit them hard, losses were high, and being sheeped out would ruin them completely. For reasons of their own, the U. S. Forestry Service wanted trouble stirred up between the beef riders and the mutton punchers. They figured it would force Congress to give them what they were after. And they thought they had their trouble-maker in the escaped killer, Pete McGrath....