Gunsmoke Westerns S.
7 total works
Arroyo Blanco County was a powder keg of bottled-up resentment and potential murder. The scorching sun and deadly drought were felling the cattle like flies and, very soon now, Adam Guthrie was going to foreclose on the bedeviled ranchers. One man stood between Guthrie and the swelling tide of lynch-crazy ranchers: Sheriff Frank Kilburn. Kilburn had put Guthrie in protective custody, but now the mob was gathering outside the jail. Kilburn could hear them - buzzing angrily at first, then raising their voices into a chorus of hate. Frank Kilburn steeled himself for a showdown. In his throat was the bitter acid of fear, was he to die or was a miracle to happen?
Old John Sunblade had ruined many men to build his vast rangeland empire. I hated him. He was a man without mercy and love. And, he had tried to destroy me as he had the others. Now, he was helpless, and his enemies were closing in like a pack of ravening wolves. I hated him, but I had to try to save him. I was his son.
The Big Four ruled a cattle empire. They were men who had fought and killed to win the land from the Comanches and now they weren't going to turn it over to government squatters...not even if the law demanded it. Violence and murder explode on the plains of New Mexico when Martin Kelso returns home after a two-year absence. Cattlemen are ruthlessly driving squatters from their rightful homesteads, and the sheriff, Martin's father, has become a useless, bottle-hugging drunk. The law is dead in Rio de Oro...until the sheriff's son decides to take it into his own hands, to fight them all, to bring back honor to the sheriff's star!
The day Donna Tate returned to her ranch and found her father slain, she knew Dan Radek and his sons had committed the crime. The law, however, ruled otherwise. Donna was determined to try another way to gain revenge - she would pay for Max Varra's escape from prison. Varra was a man betrayed by the Radeks long before, and sent to prison for twenty years. Those years had turned a merely inhuman man into a savage beast...Would freeing Varra from Yuma Prison prove the perfect way to vengeance - or only trigger a senseless bloodbath?
