Black Horse Western
16 total works
General Sherlock has issued an order to exterminate the bandits of Taney County; shoot them like animals and hang all prisoners. So, when sixteen-year-old Billy Stark falls into a trap and attempts to steal an Army payroll, the military are hot on his trail. Fleeing for his life and burdened by a wounded companion, Billy faces extreme peril and is lured into a world where lynching, torture and bullets have replaced the law. Striving to maintain his morality, Billy finds himself drawn deeper into a web of evil...
Frank Glengarry, a Pinkerton detective tracks down the infamous Childeater Gang killing one of the van Brmer twins whilst three fugitive escape. Whilst on the trail, Glengarry confronts the widow of the man he has killed. With the odds stacked against him, he now faces a showdown with the leader of the Childeater Gang.
When Frank Miller, an escaped convict, jumps from a train in wildest Kansas, he is desperate to prove his innocence. He assumes the identity of another man, but in so doing becomes ensnared in even more trouble. Greed and hatred amongst local ranchers causes a flurry of murders and Frank finds himself accused. Locked in jail, he is not only at the mercy of the harsh law, but also the target for the local lynch-crazy vigilantes. Whilst behind bars Frank receives an incredible proposition. Will this offer him salvation? Bullets and violence abound as he struggles for justice in a desperate bid to shake off the shackles of both past and present.
From the bloodstained fields of the Civil War, through a brutal Indian campaign and finally into the greedy, lawless world of the Montana goldfields, Jared Harris is relentlessly pursued by mysterious enemies. Who are they, what do they want and why him?
After the Civil War, John Willard was assigned special duty by the president himself which was to take him to the Staked Plains in Texas. The region was repellent and menacing, a land of death inhabited by Indians and outlaws.'
Frank Bannerman is intent on savage revenge for his father's murder which he believes to have been committed by the Shaughnessy brothers. He hires a notorious gunman for the purpose, but this sickens his brother Jim, because he fears that his sweetheart, young Janet Shaughnessy, may be killed too.
The infidelity of a young bride blasts Paxto n Cobb''s family apart and unleashes a hatred that leads to v iolence and death. Paxton flees for his life, and embarks on a fight for redemption. '
It is bloody Kansas, 1872, and Conroy McClure is searching for his missing brother. At a remote inn, he becomes involved with an evil family, and in particular, the she-devil of a daughter who ensnares men in a murderous web of sensuality. McClure, like so many others before him, is trapped. Local vigilantes storm the inn, intent on lynching the entire family. But the killers have fled, taking McClure with them. The evidence left buried in the adjacent orchard is totally damning: twelve bodies, naked and brutally mutilated, including a little girl who was clearly buried alive. But where have the murderers gone, and what is the fate of Conroy McClure?
Whilst on military patrol for the United States Cavalry, Lieutenant Raoul Webster is blinded in a freak accident. Granted furlough by the Army and guided by his young brother, he sets out for San Francisco intent on consulting an eye doctor. But, en route, their stagecoach is ambushed by ruthless Mexican bandits. Raoul's brother is cold-bloodedly murdered, as are the driver and all the male passengers on the coach. Raoul survives but he is alone in the wilderness and vulnerable to all Fate can throw at him. He is kept alive by one burning ambition, to track down his brother's killer. Surmounting incredible difficulties, he follows the bullet-strewn trail south of the Mexican border. Now, he must face a bloody showdown with those guilty of ambush and murder.
Robbed of his memory by a head wound, Johnny No Name finds himself lost in the Black Hills of Dakota. Wh en Johnny is caught by bounty hunters who see him as a quick chance of reward. He is left to fight for his life and stri ve to discover who he is. '
After the Civil War, Kansas was a wild territory ripe for exploitation German immigrant Helmut Rapp and his wife come west, claiming land under the Homestead Act. With the new railroad thrusting towards his land, Helmut strives to preserve the life and obscurity he has worked har to achieve.