Black Horse Western
6 total works
Trouble was brewing from the moment Dan Clancy rode into Watts Bend. His chance meeting and early friendship with Lance Roebuck is threatened by Clancy's instant rapport with Lucy Bracken, commonly seen as Roebuck's future wife. When Lucy rejects Roebuck's marriage proposal, Clancy, by definition a drifter, is warned off and slowly spirals into becoming the town drunk. Meanwhile, Roebuck has become the town hardcase with ambitions to control the entire range with the help of hired outlaws. Wrongly accused of murdering the town marshal and due to be hung, Clancy manages to break out of jail and head for the hills. Now, sober and with a future mapped out with Lucy, he must return to Watts Bend to settle old scores once and for all.
When Buck Morgan's son is apparently murdered by a lawless drifter, the small town of Willis Creek is thrown into turmoil. The townsfolk face financial ruin if Morgan's range takes its business elsewhere and will stop at nothing to make sure he stays.
Ace Brabbin is recruited to prevent the assassination of a territorial governor. The threat to the governor springs from his intention to introduce controversial equality legislation for Blacks and Indians.
Forced to leave a wagon train, ex-gunfighter Saul Beck and his wife Mary seek refuge in a town called Calico Junction. But their journey leads them through Indian Country and they fall prey to the Apache. Fortunately, they are rescued by the territory's biggest ranch owner, John Calico. From the offset, however, Saul clashes with John Calico's son, Tod, and trouble seems inevitable. Then, when Saul uncovers a murder, he triggers off a chain of events that leads him to a face from the past who is looking for revenge. As his past rushes to catch up with him, it looks as if he must, once again, buckle his gun before he can finally lay it to rest.
Jack Bannister, a legendary gunslinger known only as Gunhawk, wanders from town to town, hunting down the men who murdered his wife and daughter. His trail leads him to Hope Wells, a border town on the brink of trouble, where Bannister seeks revenge.
