"They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But old cowboys? That’s a different story — especially when they’re trail-hardened cattlemen who just got stiffed out of retirement by a shifty lawyer… After thirty hard years of chasing stampedes into storms and pushing herds of half-crazy cows across the plains, longtime buddies and cattle drivers Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin are ready to hang up their spurs. But when they get to Abilene...

The Chiricahua Mountains are full of dangers-- and the most terrifying is Apache warrior Red Dog. Skye Fargo rescues a prospector being tortured by Red Dog, which earns him the Apache's hatred.

From the moment they left their homestead unguarded on that scorching Texas day, Martin Pauley and Amos Henry became searchers. First they had to return to the decimated ranch, bury the bodies of their family, and confront the evil cunning of the Comanche who had slaughtered them. Then they set out in pursuit of missing Lucy Henry. In the years that follow, Amos and Henry survive storms of nature and of men, seeking more than a missing girl, and more...

"When twenty-five-year-old Lewis Taylor is released from the Texas State Prison, he receives little attention as he walks into the midday sunlight, free after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. His only interest is in getting back to his hometown of Gila Bend, Texas, a quiet farming community about which he has only warm, idyllic memories. During his long years in prison, he survived by thinking fondly of the home he'd known since boyhood--and...

"Smoke Jensen has met some down-and-dirty, murdering prairie scum over the years. But this time it's personal and it's bloody-and going to get bloodier. First, they stole fifty of the hundred horses Smoke delivered to his old friend Big Jim Conyers in Tarrant County, Texas. Then they stole two thousand cattle from Big Jim . . . and killed him just for the fun of it. Now they're going to pay ... The leader of this unholy band of devils is Delbert Catron...

"This chase novel, set in 1886 along the driest stretch of any trail in the West, takes the reader deep inside four troubled characters on a collision course for Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos, a Texas river synonymous with hell"--

It's Marshal Elwood "Firestick" McQueen's responsibility to keep the peace in the West Texas town of Buffalo Peak. But when an old friend, "Rip" Ripley, comes to town, nothing is going to be peaceful. Rip has joined a gang of cutthroats and is planning on robbing the town bank.

Kate Kerrigan travels to Dodge City to investigate a crime involving one of her hired cowboys, Hank Lowery, while back at the family's West Texas ranch, Kate's son Quinn must remain vigilant when a wagon trail of ill travelers arrives on their land.

"Elmer Kelton's Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his middling years, as he looks for work--but not too much work--in 1904 West Texas. Hewey Calloway is heading north to Colorado, on a horse drive for an old friend, Alvin Lawdermilk, when he gets word that one of his hired hands is planning to rob him. After the plot is foiled, the fugitive horsehand is on the run and leaving bodies in...