Linford Western
20 total works
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.
Adam Ballard serves eight years in prison for a crime he did not commit. On release, he returns to the Texas valley where he grew up, determined to prove his innocence and reclaim the respect of his family. But with his father dead and his step-mother re-married, he finds past and present entwined in a web of violence. Adam is drawn into a situation even worse than that of eight years previously and played out against the sinister background of the vast thorned brasada, the greatest breeding refuge for feral cattle ever known. Here, the high-withered, curly-haired beasts have gone unbranded by men since the sixteenth century. With demands for hides and meat growing in the northern markets, the scene is set for exploitation. In a deluge of bitter rivalry, guns blaze and men are lynched, and Adam's past is but one part of an incredible jigsaw of double-dealing, murder...and mavericking, the illegal branding of other men's cattle.
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. '
Darkness was taking hold as he strode purposefully up the street. The air was cold, bringing a shiver to his spine and all the stores were closed and the sidewalks quiet. The only sounds came from the saloon; the desultory notes of a piano, the clink of glasses, the raucous voices of men and the shrill laughter of women. His wife, Leah, had once told him that nothing was achieved by violence. Now he was convinced that she'd been wrong. The desire to inflict vengeance brought the bitter taste of bile to his mouth. Before bullets started flying, as surely they must, would he be able to extract the truth from the man he sought...and despised?
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.
Following the Battle of Gettysburg, army deserter John Terril flees south knowing he'll face a firing squad if he's caught. In Texas, he is befriended by a Mexican family and is about to marry the daughter when he becomes the victim of a terrible crime. In pursuit of the murderer Diego Armijo, who has reduced Terril's life to a living hell, he falls foul of justice and the hang-rope. Desperate to avoid the Texas Rangers, he trails Armijo into the domain of the Comanche Indians known as the Staked Plains. Here he must battle for survival before he can inflict retribution on his enemy in a deadly showdown.