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Can a place be cursed? Everyone who settles under the peak of El Renegado dies, but the feisty Shane brothers don't care - homesteading is their last chance. Then they step into a brutal fight, making a savage, mysterious enemy. If the Mountain doesn't get them, he'll try. 

Someone's making a dangerous mistake - stealing cattle from John Worth, the man who runs the territory. He sets brutal giant Tom Hall on the man he suspects. Then a deadly stranger joins the wrong side. 

Young Cal Libby would build for Libby's City gun-hung inhabitants the frontier's finest canal; a watery ditch wide and deep enough to serve as a grave for every damned one of 'em! 

Torch Breen and the Kettlesons had managed to avoid killing each other - until they met in the Point-of-Rocks Bar. Then they shot the whole town to pieces. 

"Home Burial" is a poem about a man and woman whose baby has died. It tells of the burial, how the parents react to this death, and particularly their lack of communication.

A massive swarm of grasshoppers threatens every ranch in the area. There's only one way to save everyone - set fire to one man's land. But they may have to shoot him first.

Short in size, Two Bit Higgins beats up the much bigger Dandy Barker in a bar fight in an southern Arizona gold-mining town. He is then named a deputy sheriff, also showing how dangerous he is with a gun. Then Barker comes back for revenge. How long will it be before Barker and his gang come looking for Two Bit and the show down?

A rodeo star needs to go out on top or he'll probably die broke. But someone has slipped a killer horse into the main event.

“Pump 'em full of lead!” he said through his teeth. A cruel New York sneak thief breaks out of prison with an honest cowboy. Together they'll learn about robbing payrolls, mountain women, and a fast-shooting sheriff. But will they survive? 

Lassiter is the strong, silent stranger who takes on the powerful agents trying to drive the lovely Jane Withersteen from her ranch in this acknowledged Western Classic.

A back-stabbing murderer meets Happy Jack, the deadliest fighter in the southwest, and tells him about a safe full of cash. It's too well guarded for gunplay, but a dangerous trick might work. Has Happy Jack got the nerve? 

Riders are making their way through the seven deserts that mark the path between Texas and California. But they must stop in the fifth to do battle with a gunslinger, a rustler, and the Apaches.