Davy Crockett was a cattle drover, bear hunter, husband and father, Indian fighter, soldier, politician, Martyr. He rose from a dirt-poor youth in the hardscrabble hills of Tennessee to earn the love of his countrymen and to strike fear into his enemies whether manning the battle lines in the savage war against the Creeks or walking the corridors of power in Washington.

When Kate Thompson's father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, the eighteen-year-old disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers and justice. What she finds are devious strangers, dust storms, and a pair of brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, she gets closer to the truth...

In the early 1900s, Richard Gale agrees to help George Thorne, an old college friend, get his girlfriend Mercedes, a Spanish aristocrat, to safety, away from the Mexican bandit who murdered her father. Gale gets to the Belding Ranch, where he becomes a desert ranger and falls in love with Belding's daughter, Nell. But security is only temporary: Thorne is kidnapped by the Mexican bandit and his renegades who then take him to Belding's ranch, demanding...

Found among a group of unpublished works, these two Western stories both deal with cowardice.