Black Horse Western
18 total works
Buck Drayton is sent by J.D. Daniels to recover the body of his son and locate the man who cared for him. However, Drayton encounters ambushes, fights and meets a gambler who thinks he knows all the answers and aims to exploit the situation, including Buck, to his own advantage.
One was a Yankee. One was a Rebel. They were the only two survivors of the bombardment of a New Mexico town at the end of the Civil War. After trying unsuccessfully to kill each other, they decide to become partners and go after some Confederate gold that was up for grabs. The trouble was that they weren't the only ones that knew about the hoard. Even after they had tracked it down, there was still more trouble than they could shake a stick at. Soon, there would be trouble enough to bring back old hostilities and only blazing guns would settle the matter. But who would live?
They called him Alamo Clay because he was a man who didn''t know the meaning of the word ''surrender''. Sam Tolliver should have known better than to frame Clay for cr imes he did not commit. Because now Clay is out to see justi ce done. '
Walt Enderby had shot 2 women during his car eer as a lawman and that was too many. Just as he thought hi s past was behind him, the brother of someone Walt had kille d wanted revenge. Walt was soon to learn that being quick on the trigger wasn''t enough. '
The renegades who attacked Gideon Hawk's buffalo outfit should have killed him along with his four partners, but by the time they realized it was the biggest mistake they'd ever made, they were dying one by one and two by two.
Dallas Marchant was the only man to escape from a hellish Mexican prison and survive. But when he returned to Texas he found that things had changed a great deal in the eight years he'd been gone. There was no wife, no ranch and no land. Even the guns were different. But he had to fight all his life for everything so it was no real surprise when he had to start fighting for what was rightfully his - even if it meant taking on the biggest and most ruthless cattle baron in Comanche County.
Jim Allard arrived in Casa Grande bleeding and bruised and that was just a foretaste of what was to come. The problem was that he had killed a man known as the fastest gun alive and there was no shortage of men willing to test his prowess. He was a man who knew cattle and enjoyed his job but what he wanted and what happened were two very different things. Rustlers, outlaws, crooked lawmen - all crossed his trail and there was plenty of hot lead to dodge before he learned the true meaning of the words None Faster.
The fugitives were to meet in American River once they had shaken off the posses. But something went wrong and initially only Fletcher Cody made it back. However, this proved to be an unexpected advantage when, on arrival, Cody the reluctant hero foiled a robbery and murder attempt and earned himself a lawman's badge. As it turned out, things couldn't have worked better for the remaining outlaws and what they had in mind for the army payroll held at the bank. But, almost too late, they realized others had earmarked the money for themselves. Assassins, stampedes, gunfights and outright murder would decide the outcome.
Mention the name Jack Brennan and most would say bounty hunter. But they''d be wrong. Sure he had hunted men for money, but there had been a good reason and he had no intention of making it his life''s work. But he did hire out his gun once in a while.'
He had been called "Sundown" for so long that he had forgotten how he had come by the name. When four men jumped him up on the Yellowstone River for his gold and his beautiful Indian wife, he survived but the four men didn't. Or was it only three? Sundown sets out to find his only living kin, kidnapped long ago by renegade Indians.
Death stalks Shaeriff Chad Cooper, and it seemed that no sooner had he consigned one badman to Boot Hill than another was gunning for him
Deke Cutler served ten long, hard, years in the Texas Rangers and looked forward to his retirement. He aimed to join his old pard, Durango Spain, on the Red River ranch they had bought. But, recovering from a near-fatal shot in the back, Deke ran into a new kind of lawlessness along the Red and beyond, in the wild lands known as the Indian Territory. There were more than Indians to contend with: 'dead' men from Rio kept turning up and all of them had him in their sights. With his gunarm crippled, Deke knew he was in bigger trouble than any he had endured in the Rangers.
Cody Travis was a drunk who had killed his best friend in a shootout that should never have happened. But now he has managed to kick the booze and has been offered a job as manager of the Big Thistle cattle spread in Montana. But all is not what it seemed - would his guns and fists be able to get him out of trouble?