The beauty of Mercedes won the Texas Ranger and the ruthless bandit Rojas. With the help of the Ranger's friend, Mercedes is able to escape into the desert followed by Rojas and his band. Only a bloody showdown could end things.

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.

Caught up in a range war with his uncle's mortal enemy, powerful rancher Bret Ellison, Joseph Carrigan becomes Ellison's hostage, leaving Liam Carrigan to embark on a desperate, shoot-and-run showdown that will leave one side or the other the victor.

Otis Chancy faces crooked sheriffs and deadly gunmen as he learns the rules of living in the West while trying to build up his own cattle outfit.

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...

At long last John Savage has cornered Ollie Hobart-the man who murdered his family. But will the price of his vengeance be too high?

For a brave band of Texas pioneers, new enemies awaited on the thundering trail. But old enemies were the deadliest of all. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives. The Dodge City...

Smoke Jensen gives up the struggle to overcome his reputation as a gunslinger in Colorado Territory and heads to the Wyoming range to join the fight against renegade cattle rustlers.