No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion-the good and the bad-before the days of law and order. Collected here are six stories penned by America's favorite Western author. "Trap of Gold" Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first color in a crumbling upthrust granite wall with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold. The problem is that the...

Marshal Will Carston of Twin Rifles has lived by the tough ideals of the Texas Rangers, but when it comes to plain old-fashioned foolishness -- well, there's little he can do to stop his son from that. Wash Carston has just turned over his and his brother's life savings to a smooth-talking banker, and it's already too late. The money and the con man are gone.

Color illustration on front cover of a man wearing western clothing holding a rifle in his proper right hand riding a horse through a canyon.

When his friend, Marshall Edwards, is murdered in cold blood, Hoppy, who witnessed the crime, is determined to bring the killers to justice.

Bobby Madison was a young owlhoot with just a silver dollar between him and poverty. But the rich reputation he'd earned as a gunslinger through the fanciful writin' of some tin horn dime novelist made him the target of every gunny in the territory. It wasn't long after Bobby rode into the dusty cowtown of Drago that he got himself buried in the backyard of the publicity-minded local starpacker with the smile of death on his face and five lead slugs...

When Harry French left home he was just another kid looking to make his way. But when he comes back four years later, things are different. He's different. Or at least the town thinks so. Now nobody looks him in the eye. He isn't just Harry anymore, he's the Shifter, a gunfighter who brings trouble with him wherever he goes. And as hard as Harry tries, he finds that a reputation is a lot harder to put down than a gun.

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...

While looking for the missing father of a beautiful girl, Skye Fargo encounters Linda Ayler of the Black Hills Mining Company, and he must solve a string of murders before he becomes the next victim.