Michael Zimmer

In 1879, the McCandles gang shoots up a small Idaho town. Joseph Roper, age 17, decides to bring them to justice, alone. Decades later, in 1938, he tells his story to an interviewer with the Federal Writers Project.

J. T. Latham is rotting in prison in the Yuma Territory penitentiary. But then Sheriff Del Buchman offers to commute his sentence if Latham helps execute a prisoner exchange with some dangerous banditos. The only catch is that he must guide the sheriff through the deadly Sonoran Desert. The story was adapted from surviving transcripts of the American Legends Collection, which were written in 1936 as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works...

"Sergeant Andrew Cade and seven troopers are hard on the trail of the Hollister Gang, determined to free a trio of women Ben Hollister and his men have taken captive after a raid on the town of Rio Largo, Texas. Crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico should have guaranteed the outlaws' safety. But they hadn't counted on the iron-tough sergeant's determination to finish his mission. Meanwhile, in Mexico, José Yanez and his Hunters have just massacred...

"Tom Slade is riding shotgun for the Colorado and Prescott Stagecoach Company, in charge of delivering $45,000 in cash to the mines in central Arizona, when the stage is robbed at an isolated way station. Most men would have gone on to Prescott for help, but Slade knows he doesn't have that kind of time if he hopes to catch up with the thieves before they disappear into the desert. Alone and riding a worn-out harness mule, Slade grimly sets off in...

"Hell had come a-callin' on the remote cattletown of Sand Creek, Nebraska Territory. Wide-spread rustling from the area's ranches was about to destroy the local cattle industry, and the recently opened Black Hills, with its gold camps like Custer City and Deadwood, were prime markets for the stolen beef. That's why the Cattlemen's Association brought in Luke Howard and a handful of others as Range Detectives, men experienced in the ways of cattle...

"Nineteen-year-old Gage Pardell didn't intend to kill Henry Kalb when he rode into Shelburn, Texas, to confront the son of the county's richest man. He just wanted justice for what Kalb had done to his sister. But now Henry is dead, and Gage is on the run from a gang of vicious bounty hunters hired by Henry's father. With nowhere else to go, Gage heads west toward the far-flung buffalo ranges of West Texas. There, he learns what it means to stand...

Half-frozen and nearly dead, Gil Ryan, who had lost everything he owned except for his mount and the clothes on his back rode into the little mountain town of Larkspur just ahead of a raging late-winter blizzard. But Gil had no way of knowing the surrounding Ensillado Basin was about to be plunged into a range war, or that the man who had murdered his brother the previous fall, was also in the Ensillado. Forced into a war he doesn't want he assembles...

Detective Abel Grey is called to investigate the death of a prep school student in the nearby river. Initially ruled as a suicide, Grey suspects that it was from a hazing incident gone too far. One sympathetic teacher offers her help in the case.