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Jack Corbett. Ein Mann hart wie der Stahl seines Revolvers. Man nennt ihn Deadhand. Er war Marshal in vielen wilden Städten und sorgte dort für Recht und Gesetz. Wenn er sich auf die Fährte eines Gesetzlosen heftete, hatte dieser schon verloren. Doch nun folgt er den Brüdern Ralston. Ich mag Corbett nicht, aber die Ralstons sind zweibeinige Bestien. Sie morden, plündern und quälen. Sie sind das Böse schlechthin. Ich muss helfen. Dieser Band enthält: "Der Revolvermarshal" (25) & "Der Henker wartet auf McCall" (26).

"Bloody" Joe Mannion is a town tamer of great renown. Known as the most uncompromising lawman on the Western frontier, he's been the town marshal of Del Norte in the Colorado Territory for the past five years. One day in Del Norte, he loses his famous temper and badly beats Whip Helton, the son of a prominent rancher. That night, the son and his outlaw pards burn Joe's house and kidnap and rape his daughter. Joe goes on the warpath, getting crossways with the son's father, prominent rancher Garth Helton.

Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory’s hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they’ll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux warriors who don’t want any white man trespassing on their sacred grounds. But the Sioux aren’t the only hostiles staking their claim in the region.

There are some things in this world that can't be stopped. Like progress, a moving train, and the American Dream. When the bigwigs in Washington decide to build a transcontinental railroad to the West Coast, they need a man who's just as unstoppable to clear a path through Mexican territory. That man is Jamie MacCallister. Jamie knows it's a tough job. The territory is overrun with Apaches. The Apaches are gunning for a fight. And the first patrol sent in by the president has already been ambushed, kidnapped, and most likely killed.

Una historia de codicia y de venganza. Se nos cuenta cómo los Espinosa descubren en la ladera oeste del Sancti Spíritus la más rica bolsada de gale­na argentífera de que se tiene memoria. Se niegan a poner la mina a nombre del General, y un pistolero a sueldo mata al padre en la casa de putas de La Man­ca.

Versatility was a key talent of author Frederick Faust using the pseudonym Max Brand. What you’re about to hear is one of his lesser known stories that ranks as a prime example of his stupendous ability.

Con la orden de ocupar un puesto militar abandonado, John Dunbar se encontró solo, más allá de los límites de la civilización. El robo y la supervivencia pronto lo obligaron a ingresar al campamento indio, donde comenzó una peligrosa aventura que cambió su vida para siempre.

In McGuane's first novel set in his famed American West, Patrick Fitzpatrick is a former soldier, a fourth-generation cowboy, and a whiskey addict. His grandfather wants to run away to act in movies, his sister wants to burn the house down, and his new stallion is bent on killing him: all of them urgently require attention. But increasingly Patrick himself is spiraling out of control, into that region of romantic misadventure and vanishing possibilities that is Thomas McGuane's Montana.

Caddo und Kane, zwei Blutsbrüder auf dem Weg zur Hölle. Caddo, ein großer, schweigsamer Apache, Häuptling und Schamane. Jack Kane, der Texas Ranger, hat es sich zur Lebensaufgabe gemacht, Dämonen und Geister im Wilden Westen zu bekämpfen. Ghul-King Jonnie Death terrorisiert mit seinen Zombiehorden Texas. Die Untoten morden und schänden. Komplette Dörfer werden von den Zombies ausgerottet, ihre Einwohner in Untote verwandelt. Doch dann greifen die beiden Blutsbrüder ein.

John Wesley Hardin's powderkeg temper earned him twelve bodies by age twenty—and a place at the top of the Texas MOST WANTED list. Now a happy husband and a father, he thinks his fighting days are over and done. Until he's ambushed by an angry loser in a local poker game… Soon the law is on Wes's trail again, but this time he's got too much at stake. Hardin only wants peace—but he's willing to wage a one-man war to stay free.

Elijah Rable rides into Destitution looking for some fun but ends up with a badge on his chest, a price on his head, and two women vying for his heart. Destitution is just a miserable little frontier town in the middle of nowhere. So why is the air thick with fear and greed? And why are its most powerful citizens hiring gunslingers? Joined by a female sharpshooter with more grit than a sandstorm, Rable gets busy trying to solve the mystery. But he’d better be quick if he wants to stop the war, save the folks counting on him, and get out of Destitution alive.

In den Weiten des texanischen Llano Estacado treibt ein Monstrum sein Unwesen, gegen das keine gewöhnliche Waffe etwas ausrichten kann. Das ungleiche Duo Hardin und Jackson trifft auf einen Mann, der die Grenzen zwischen Wahrheit und Wahnsinn verschwimmen lässt. Ist er die Rettung oder das Verderben?

Die Witwe Helen Burkfield lebt auf einer kleinen Pferderanch. Als ihre Tochter Crystal verschwindet und die Spur direkt ins Indianergebiet führt, macht sich Helen auf die aussichtslos erscheinende Suche. Sie nimmt die Hilfe von Threefeathers an, einem Krieger, der dem gleichen Stamm angehört, der ihren Mann ermordet haben soll. Gemeinsam folgen die beiden der mysteriösen Fährte. Schon bald muss Helen erkennen, dass Crystal von einem blutrünstigen Dämon entführt wurde.

Der Goldrausch in Montana ist vorbei. Die Leute verlassen Virginia City, als der Geist eines Revolverhelden mordend durch die nächtlichen Straßen zieht. Hardin, der Träger des magischen Colts, stellt sich ihm. Doch die sonst tödliche Waffe versagt.

Auf einem Viehtrieb verschwinden Cowboys. Die Spur der Vermissten führt in eine mysteriöse Geisterstadt. Jim und Andie müssen gegen Dämonen und Höllenkreaturen kämpfen. Ihr Leben ist nichts mehr wert, denn die Bestien versuchen mit allen Mitteln zu verhindern, dass die beiden aus der Stadt der Toten fliehen können.

As they sit by a fire on a Christmas night, Johnny tells the family of his early days on the frontier. Of how he and his brothers became wanted by the law, how he met Lura, and how he became the man he is now.

He calls himself The King. Once a respected professor, he was ruined by scandal. Now, he rules his own “country”—an area of western territory where an army of outlaws enforce his laws. Any town he claims as his own must pay “taxes,” collected from bank, stagecoach, and train robberies. When he learns that President Rutherford B. Hayes and General William Tecumseh Sherman are venturing into the far west on a tour of the nation, The King devises a plan to kidnap America’s leaders and expand his empire.

Newly married, Justice and Nora honeymoon in New York City, where they rescue an orphan girl, track down Don Antonio Garza’s lawyer, and dole out some good, old fashioned, Western justice. Then it’s on to Mexico. Justice and an old friend ride into the wild borderlands, where they face bandidos, Apaches, rurales, and the formidable assassin, Mr. Rose.

The most wanted man in the West, Big Bob McGraw has earned his reputation as a thief and killer. With a gang of trigger-happy desperadoes willing to do his bidding, McGraw has robbed banks, stagecoaches, and railroads, raised hell ravaging towns, and left bodies littering the streets in his wake. Carson Stone rode with McGraw’s gang exactly once, minding their horses during a bank robbery, before quitting. But with the marshal of El Paso, Texas, gunned down in cold blood as the bandits escaped, he’s been judged guilty by association.

When town marshal Vic Falcone takes a bullet, he calls on the local preacher Tom McCabe to strap on a gun and wear the badge. The man who shot the marshal is in the town jail and awaiting trial, and the man's outlaw brother is out there somewhere, intending to free him. A lot for McCabe to handle, but even though he's a preacher, he's also the nephew of the gunfighter Johnny McCabe.