Westerns

Range Wars and Gunfights. Bronco Busting and Cattle Drives. Gamblers and Gunslingers.

Try a Random Western

A double-crossing partner that abandons a man to the wolves; gamblers playing poker with a woman and a ranch as the stakes; an outlaw and the sheriff that put him away thirty years before, band together to rid a town of corruption. These are some of the stories in Gunsmoke Years.

Adobe Gold and Other Stories – A lost treasure of gold, a hidden outlaw town, a gambler and his sister, and a framed man on the run. These are the elements of these four stories by Eli Colter.

Bonanza: A Story of the Gold Trail – The story of the gold and silver rushes in Nevada are told through the characters of two pairs of brothers and a pair of sisters. Honor and greed are the backdrops for love and murder in this novel of the West.

Spurs – Four Western stories by Walker A. Tompkins. In the Middle Ages, a knight who had “won his spurs” had attained knighthood by performing an act of bravery.

The Dead-Line – Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens are accidentally caught in the middle when a range war develops between cattlemen and shepherds.

Vaquero Guns – Jim Hatfield of the Rangers Fights a Sidewinder Who Plans to Ruin a Vast Empire of the Old Southwest

Hopalong Cassidy – The scheme was simple: start a range war between two outfits and rustle their cattle while they were otherwise occupied. And it would have succeeded with any other outfit than the Bar-20.

Renegade Payoff and Other Stories – Four Western tales by Ed Earl Repp.

The Last Half Mile and Other Stories – New settlers plus gamblers and outlaws make for some dangerous situations and only men who can defend themselves and their families will survive.

Desert Rendezvous – two stories of men and women of the West, coming together to take on  thieves, hijackers and murderers.

Scalp Harvest and Other Stories – Life on the frontier from fighting a battle against the rampaging Sioux, to fighting to keep a town from being overcome by a tinhorn’s greed and intimidation.

Over the Northern Border – A man sacrifices himself by going on the run twice to protect and preserve the happiness of two other couples.