Black Horse Western
7 total works
"Black Horse Westerns" belong to a series published each month by Robert Hale. "Rowdy's Raiders" is one of ten titles produced during May 1996.
A dark family secret concerning his step-sis ter, Dawn, forces Rowdy to return home for the first time in six years. Soon, Rowdy becomes involved in an attempt to he lp the local Indians fight off a gang of outlaws. '
When Matt and his cousin Luke, a notorious bounty hunter, are besieged by the Mexicalaros, they know that they must fight their way to victory or die trying. Everyone knows the Mexicalaros: the renegade gang who terrorise ranches and settlements on both sides of the Rio Grande are feared by all. Now, the cousins are forced to use that fear to recruit help from both sides of the border and to lead a counter-attack on the deadly Mexicalaros. But will the Mexicalaros hit back? And how many must be slain before peace can return to the border? As Matt and Luke hunt for the leader of the deadly gang, the time has come to find out what the cousins are made of.
Barfly is driven to find out who he was before he lost his memory. When the homestead on which he works is attacked, even Barfly is amazed at how fast he is with a six-gun, and he leads the fight back against the mysterious cattle rustlers. At last his memory returns, and he must confront his past.
A lynch-minded posse is hot on the trail of the outlaw Jack Crow who discovers the body of a Texas Ranger new to the area. In order to shake off his pursuers, Jack decides to swap his identity and must wear the distinctive boots of the dead man if his deception is to succeed. Jack becomes accepted as a ranger and finds himself upholding the law from which he has so often run. This means siding with homesteaders and Mexicans against the mighty Lazy Creek ranch and a gang of gun-runners. A bloody range war ensues, and to protect his new friends Jack is forced to seek a final showdown with the notorious renegade gang leader. As Jack discovers, a dead man's boots are much harder to take off than put on...
Only 20,000 acres in size Black Creek was by Texas standards, a small ranch but it had water in abundance. Its massive and powerful neighbour, the Bar T ranch claimed almost 400,000 acres of land but in summer its ranges usually ran dry. So protected by gunmen, its ranch hands constantly drove herds across Black Creek range to the water rich creek which gave the little ranch its name. Then Matt Crowe purchased Black Creek. A former outlaw, hired gun and bounty hunter, Crowe had never looked for trouble. He didn't have to for since the Civil War, it had always found him. Black Creek with two sassy and very attractive twin sisters already in residence, proved to be no exception. Yet what could one man and two beautiful young women do against the twenty hired gunmen of the mighty Bar-T? Very little until Crowe found an old foe who became a dangerous ally. Then together their death dealing six-guns turned the crystal clear waters of Black Creek blood red.
When the train carrying him to prison is derailed, Confederate prisoner-of-war Jeff Kyle is surprised when a Yankee sergeant helps him escape. However, the sergeant is Confederate scout Mike Avison in disguise. Together, the two hatch a plan to escape to freedom, but fate intervenes in the shape of Clara Marston, who has in her possession a key to a mysterious deposit box in a bank in Independence, which she believes will make her fortune. Soon the three are joined on their journey by widowed homesteader Pollyanna Cooper, and so begins a journey full of peril and intrigue.