Fight Like a Man, Die Like a Texan The War Between the States changed the Cotton brothers forever -- giving Johnny a mean streak a mile wide, and leaving Ted with a determination never to kill again. Even an attack on their Texas ranch by Comanche renegades won't stir Ted Cotton to action, opening a rift between him and his hotheaded sibling that nothing can heal. But when Johnny takes off alone on a trail drive to Kansas and pays the ultimate price...

Smoke Jensen arrives in Dodge City with a herd of longhorns only to find the town in the grip of a rampaging gang led by the notorious Confederate guerilla "Bloody Bill" Anderson, and must decide whether he wants to take the side of the law in what is sure to be a deadly confrontation.

Orphaned by their father's suicide, Nellie and her brother, Jackson, take jobs in the western town of Rita Blanca, where deputy sheriff Jackson is forced to confront six gunfighter brothers and telegrapher Nellie pursues a romance with Buffalo Bill.

Appaloosa, the hometown of Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, continues to prosper, but with prosperity comes a slew of new trouble: carpetbaggers, gamblers, migrants, peddlers, drifters, thieves, and whores, all boiling in a cauldron of excess and greed. And there's a new menace in town: a wealthy, handsome easterner-and the owner of Appaloosa's new casino-Boston Bill Black. Boston Bill is flashy and bigger than life. He's a prankster...

Benton McCaleb and his band of cowboys have braved over a thousand miles to drive a herd of longhorns from Texas to Wyoming, but they discover that their struggles are not over when a ruthless railroad baron tries to force them off the land.

"Sabina Carpenter and John Quinncannon are no stranger to mysteries. In the five years since they opened Carpenter and Quinncannon, Professional Detective Services, they have solved dozens, but one mystery has eluded even them: Sherlock Holmes or, rather,the madman claiming his identity, who keeps showing up with a frustrating (though admittedly useful) knack for solving difficult cases. Roland W. Fairchild, recently arrived from Chicago, claims Holmes...