Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

"Say you're me -- Jim Bannister. You scrape a cattle herd together and move it onto free grass. But the land-hungry Crescent spread tells you to get out. You tell them you're staying, come hell or high water. Then they gun-whip you, rustle your cows and frame you for a drygulch killing you never committed. I don't know about you -- but me, I'm going after Crescent with guns smoking. Ambush Range tells the violent-paced story of Jim Bannister, who...

"Arriving on horseback at a railroad watering station where he means to briefly rest and hopefully find some refreshment before moving on, Lone McGantry tangles with a pair of rowdy cowboys who are up to no good. No sooner is that resolved than a train arrives after having been just robbed. Aboard is Jeth Howard, an old friend of Lone's from his days as an army scout. As a favor to Jeth, who has particular reasons for wanting to regain a priceless...

"Ghosts on the range -- fearsome figures in gleaming armor, spirits of the conquistadores, striking terror into the herdsmen of Texas' Matagorda Bay country . . . But maybe, Slade told himself, they're not ghosts, just smart owlhoots wrapped in tin plate. So the Ranger ace went "ghost"-hunting -- with hot lead and fighting fury! But Slade didn't know how close he himself would come to being made a ghost . . ."--

"Hellgate. The name strikes fear throughout Arizona Territory. Mason McCabe's nightmarish village huddles in an extinct volcano's crater. His business is stolen goods and stolen women. All criminals welcome. An outlaw, Caleb Connor, is protecting the captive Rose LaBelle, but her life is endangered when McCabe takes a personal interest in her. Rose fights the horrors of Hellgate while her Aunt Mary Alice, at her home in Prescott, the territorial capital,...

"Former Texas Ranger Clay Orde was looking for a man. There was only one thing on his mind -- revenge. He'd been following a cold trail from Oregon to Nevada, but his experience as a ranger and what he had learned about Silver Jack Devaney assured him that he was going in the right direction. Fate intervenes when he thwarts a freight train robbery and becomes acquainted with Milly Ewell. Milly Ewell runs a mule freighting business she inherited when...

Nick Graves has had a life full of more death than any man can handle. Graves has dealt death as well--as an outlaw, running with some of the most feared gunslingers in the West. Now he's ready to turn his back on his dark past and live out his existence back in the family business--as a mourner, paid to see to the details of funerals and wakes. Nick wants to settle down, but a man's past has a way of staying with him. And soon he crosses paths with...

Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain--and the world of the Dark Tower. The evil deceptions woven by the merciless, mesmerizing power of the mystical seeing sphere known as "Maerlyn's Grapefruit" warped Roland Deschain of Gilead's sense of reality, causing him to unintentionally commit a shocking and unforgivable crime--one which may earn him a swift journey to the gallows. But what has happened to Roland is only a taste of the bitter fate...