Lauran Paine

For George Killian, it was an opportunity to start over in a new land. But it was an opportunity to start over in a new land. But it wasn't going to be easy. Killian would have to fight as dirty as those he was up against.

When cowman George Hinman took the lanky young vagabond home to the Circle H with him, all he had in mind was teaching him a trade and giving him a job. But before he could put Jim on as a ranch hand, the pair had to take on a local who nearly killed George when hunting Indians on his range, and even locked horns with the army! Using their wits, George Hinman and young Jim became quite a team.

"A feud between the biggest and richest cattleman, Richard DeFore, and the local stage line couldn't have come at a worse time to Winchester, Colorado. The town's new sheriff, John Klinger, young, inexperienced, and hot-headed, hasn't been in the job for a month yet when DeFore, who has never sold or donated the right of way for the pass which is on his land, demands the stage line pay a toll for passage, which the company is refusing to do..."--Back...

Jackson Miggs was a loner who wintered under the Ute Peak in his log cabin. He liked people well enough, but didn't care much for crowds. He even tolerated the cowmen like Hyatt Tolman who used the high meadows around Ute Peak to graze his herd--even when the animals cropped the forage too closely and drove the elk and deer into the higher mountains.Miggs once told his friend Frank McCoy that if he looked out a window and saw a building less than...

A bushwhacking killer is on the loose and Sheriff Claude Rainey is in the thick of it in this tale of treachery and greed from Lauren Pain, the most prolific pen in the West. The trouble began for Sheriff Claude Rainey when the Hightower Ranch cowboys discovered a mummified man and his horse in a desert canyon near Springville, Arizona, both shot in the head. Ordinarily that should have been the end of it, since many a man riding the outlaw trail...

To give a man the upper hand in avenging a death, a gunsmith customizes a revolver to fire at half cock, saving the time it takes to pull back the hammer before firing. But the weapon is stolen and the novel traces the fortunes of its owners as the revolver passes from hand to hand. By the author of The White Bird.

"The discovery of a man and his horse, both shot dead through the head, with $10,000 buried nearby in a desert canon near Springville, Arizona, lead Sheriff Claude Rainey to believe this is something bigger than a simple bushwhacking"--

The false arrest and murder of a ranch hand under his care raises the ire of Boss Spearman, who is determined to bring the killers to justice. Boss Spearman knew the end was near for open range men like him, cattlemen who drove their herds through the country to graze and then move on. Local stockmen were staking claims to grazing areas throughout the West. Spearman had no quarrel with that, but he wasn't about to let anyone intimidate him without...