Shane and Jonah

At first glance, Shane Preston and Jonah Jones were an odd pair: one a lean, quiet gunfighter, the other a feisty old-timer running to fat. But they shared a special bond, and a common goal ... to track down the man with the scarred faced who'd killed Shane's wife. To do that, however, they needed money. So they hired out their guns as trouble-busters, and fought one deadly battle after another, always in the hope that their trail would eventually cross with that of Scarface. When Hangman's Creek hired them to clean out the lawless element, it seemed like a pretty straightforward job. But neither man reckoned on just how ruthless Leif Murphy could be ... and how dangerous his army of gunslingers! Shane Preston and Jonah Jones - gunfighters who rode across the West and fought against injustice with fists and Colt revolvers.

Following the death of its guide, a wagon train bound for Gun Creek had stalled outside the small town on Conchita. But when Shane Preston and Jonah Jones rode in on the trail of the scar-faced man Shane had sworn to kill, wagon master Huston Whittaker saw an answer to their problems. Whittaker was an old friend of Shane's, and when he asked for help in getting his emigrants to their destination, the black-clad gunfighter and his crusty old sidekick couldn't refuse.The trail ahead was going to be mighty hard, though. Somewhere out in the vast wilderness, a band of renegade Cheyennes were on the warpath. And there was no shortage of problems right inside the wagon train itself. A killer with a price on his head was trying to work his way west to a new life. A fiery half-Mexican girl on the run from a vengeful husband set her cap for the preacher who hoped to bring religion to Gun Creek. And three men masquerading as prospectors were planning a double-cross that would send the wagons and their occupants straight to Hell!

A fabulous fortune in Aztec treasure was said to be hidden away in the Guadalupe Mountains, all that remained of the long-dead Tenoctitlan race. But finding it was the key, for the Guadalupes were not only vast and dangerous, they were also inhabited by Apaches who considered them to be sacred ground, and had sworn to kill any invader.Pedro Mantez knew where the treasure lay, but before he could mount an expedition, he needed protection. He chose to hire the best … Shane Preston and his partner, old Jonah Jones.Along the way they would tangle with robbers, bloodthirsty Indians and, in some cases, their own obsessive greed. Guns would blaze and men would die.But the real enemy remained in the shadows throughout it all, content to watch as the Mexican rancher and his evil companions destroyed each other ... He was the Aztec god of war, destruction and death!

Showdown at Jackson Hole is a flashback story in the Shane and Jonah series, and as such takes place before Shane Preston finally got his revenge on the man who killed his wife.Pete Halliday was panning for gold along the Gunnison River and making a pretty good go of it, too. So good, in fact, that a bunch of masked riders raided his claim one dark night, stole his cache and left Pete himself dead.But Pete had a wife, feisty young Bess Halliday. And Bess wasn't about to let Pete's murder go unavenged. So she called in Shane Preston and Jonah Jones to discover the identities of the raiders who were robbing prospectors all along the Gunnison … and then give them justice at the end of a Colt .45.Still, finding out who was really behind the spate of robberies wasn't going to be easy. They covered their tracks real well. But when at last they were revealed … well, the truth might well seal the fates of Shane and Jonah! Shane Preston and Jonah Jones - gunfighters who rode across the West and fought against injustice with fists and Colt revolvers.