Linford Western
6 total works
Dan Chantry, a struggling farmer, is threatened with foreclosure. Charles B. Morgan is an unsympathetic and greedy banker who ignores Chantry's honest efforts to clear his debt and turns a deaf ear to his pleas. The meeting between the men turns angry and Chantry storms out of the bank, vowing that should Morgan try to foreclose he will stop him. Then, Morgan is found murdered, and there are plenty of witnesses who heard Chantry's threats. And when the murder weapon is found in Chantry's saddlebag, his next stop is the gallows. On his way to town as a prisoner, storm conditions intervene and Chantry gets away. His plan is to gain time and return at some point to prove his innocence. But Al Blake, the marshal of Wolf Creek and a friend of Chantry is hot on his trail. Soon, the farmer is a prisoner again. Will Chantry be proved innocent or will he face the gallows?
When Jack Danner arrived in Haley Ridge, his first thought was to ride on. However, a poker game beckoned and ended with him in jail overnight. The next morning a stagecoach rolled in bearing the august financier Spencer Bonnington and his niece, Sarah. Jack is the most surprised man in town when he is summoned by Spencer and offered fifteen-hundred dollars to escort Sarah to her dying father's ranch in Largo. So begins the hard ride across the desert in the middle of an Apache uprising. The there is Bob Rand and his cutthroat partners to contend with, who see Sarah as a woman to be enjoyed and a way to raise a ransom from the wealthy Bonningtons. Danner has a sense he's being watched, but by whom? What he thought would be an easy fifteen-hundred becomes the hardest money he's ever earned.
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.
Had Sam Limbo not been in jail for a murder he did not commit, he would hit the trail out of Dane's Bend, a powder-keg town awaiting the arrival of the notorious Donovan brothers, intent on avenging the killing of the youngest Donovan.There is also the problem of a bank with a secret stash for which the banker has hired private security who will pose more of a threat than security. The bank will also interest the Donovans. In fact Yancey Donovan's visit was probably to reconnoitre. So when Limbo gets the opportunity to break out of jail he grabs it, only to return, the lure being the marshal's daughter.It falls to Limbo to save the town that wanted to hang him.
Special undercover agent Lar Blayney is assigned the task of preventing the trouble in Sweetwater Valley from developing into a full-scale range war. Using the cover name of Bob Harker, he arrives in the valley and quickly realizes the main instigator is the ruthless Butch Collins, who plans to force out his neighbours. One such neighbour is Frank Bateman - Blayney's old boss during his days as a Pinkerton detective. Now Blayney becomes a Collins hireling. But the tension grows and Blayney is forced to take ever greater risks. Could this be his final mission?
