Buchanan

"There's a little town thirty miles from here called Scottsville," Major Jones told him. "Your first job as a Texas Ranger will be to stop a war there."Even before Major Jones finished giving him his orders, Buchanan knew he would find Scottsville to be hostile territory. Two cattle barons, who happened to be quick-drawing women, had torn the town apart in a duel that had already cost several lives.Now Buchanan was expected to stop the war, and he knew that he couldn't do that without spilling more blood very possibly some of his own… Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

When Buchanan grubstaked Mousetrap Mulligan he never thought he'd see his money again. He never thought the old man would hit paydirt. But he did-and that was bad news for Buchanan. Because a lonely old desert rat with a hidden cache of nuggets and a drunkard's bragging habits was likely to end up very dead ... very suddenly. Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

The killers had taken over the town, lock, stock, and barrel-and they weren't going to leave until there was nothing left to loot.They had the bank and the saloon and the sheriff's office and the poker game. And you had to like it or you ended up dead.But Buchanan didn't like it. Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

One of the best heroes of western fiction is once again engaged in a battle that he would prefer to avoid. Buchanan is a peaceable man; however, the rest of the world is not. A man named Bradbury sent for him with the reasons being unknown. There is no question that it was not to act as a hired gun, for Bradbury knew that Buchanan could not be hired to kill, even though he would not hesitate to do so if the cause was right. Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

Big Jim's men had gunned down O'Brien and shot Buchanan in the back ...Buchanan lay on the floor, bracing himself on one elbow. He heard Big Jim say, "No, don't kill him. Get his gun. Fire another shot into O'Brien. We want Buchanan hanged."But Buchanan had no intention of hanging. Somehow and in some way, he promised himself. Big Jim and his gang would pay for their crime.He was determined that when his case came up before the 'twelve good men and true' of the jury, his name would be cleared before the world. And it would be Big Jim who would go to the gallows. Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

"You've got to get him. I don't care how. Just get Buchanan!"The widow wanted Buchanan dead or alive. Mostly dead.Buchanan found it hard to believe. When he knew her years ago, she was just a ranch wife. A woman he scarcely noticed. Now her husband was gone and she had become the tyrannical ruler of the whole county.She owned everything and everybody. And she bled them dry.No one dared oppose her.Except her son.And Buchanan.Now she had the whole town gunning for them. Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

"There ain't no man bigger'n Buchanan. He might be taller than Buchanan. He might be wider than Buchanan. He might be heavier than Buchanan. But there ain't nobody in the whole world bigger than Buchanan."Buchanan was a peace-loving man. But there was little peace in his life. Trouble just seemed to follow him. Like now. All Tom Buchanan wanted to do was pay a visit to young Nora and her family, and all hell broke loose. Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

Demetrius and his gang of vicious cutthroats had already attempted to steal Lu Lacy's herd. Then they attacked Lu herself …That's when Buchanan and his partner, the prizefighter Coco Bean, rode in.Before long, Buchanan was acting as trail-boss, his job to push a mixed herd up the Western Trail to Dodge City. Trouble was, the odds were all stacked against him. There were Indians to contend with, there were hired gunnies, and there was drought. But he couldn't afford to fail. So Buchanan did the only thing he could-he strapped on his guns and took the fight to the enemy … Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

"I just seen a man whup our entire police force. Tooken their guns away and just plain whupped 'em."That man was Buchanan. He wasn't looking for trouble. It came to him. When the crooked Dodge City deputies tried to push him around, he just naturally resented it. His way.Right from the beginning, Buchanan was unhappy about the trip to Dodge. But his friend, the fighter Coco Bean, was after a big match there. It was a chance for him to win big.What Buchanan didn't know was that a gang of cutthroats had their own plans for the fight. And that out in the prairie a murderous band of renegades and half breeds were plotting to destroy the whole town... Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

A fortune in gold bullion, silver plate, and jewels beyond price ... This was the fabled Cuesta treasure. Men had died for it a century before. Then it had disappeared--hidden somewhere near the Cuesta ranch in Texas. Now, men were beginning to hunt this treasure again. And more would die. Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

"You know a man named Buchanan?""Ev'body knows Buchanan.""I want him killed on sight. I want the Apaches wiped out, no witnesses. Anyone else who gets in the way-you know what to do."Buchanan had ridden the big black horse a long way. Now he was high in the New Mexico mountains on his way to help his friend Longbo save his silver mine from thieves and bankruptcy. Colin Masters was the kind of thief nobody dared to tangle with. He was a powerful man. A millionaire. He wanted Longbo's mine and he didn't care how he got it. He rounded up a gang of hired killers and began to take Longbo apart. Then Buchanan showed up … Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

Six feet four inches tall, with sandy hair and greenish eyes. He had been on the frontier since he was fourteen and bore the scars of a hundred battles. But in his heart, Buchanan was a peaceable man.It's just that trouble and danger seemed to stalk him.An escaped convict named Farnum, a killer with ice in his blood, had shot down a friend. Now Buchanan had to track him down-and the innocent young girl he had taken hostage. It was not going to be easy. Farnum was a very clever man.And very dangerous.But Buchanan was not the only one hunting the outlaw. A crooked lawman with greedy eyes on Farnum's hidden cache of stolen loot decided to track the killer, too. And if he had to murder Buchanan to get him, he would … Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

An army of hired killers, in the pay of Don Porado, were trying to take over the land, murdering and stealing from anyone who refused to be bought. They had damn' near killed Tom Buchanan's godson, Billy, and threatened to destroy his home and cattle. Now Buchanan was all that stood between Porado and his murderous dream of glory ... Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

"Buchanan, we all know about that little gun in your belt buckle. Put your hands behind your head."The crowd had come to see Buchanan's buddy, Coco Bean, fight in the ring. The Cutler gang, however, wasn't interested in the odds, only the take, which they planned to steal. About the only thing standing between the Cutlers and all that money was Buchanan. And what they wanted almost as much as the money was to see Buchanan dead. So they baited the trap with his lusty lady friend, Madeline Velvet-and waited for Buchanan... Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

With his saddle partner, Coco Bean, Tom Buchanan rides into the middle of a brutal graze war between cattleman and sheep man. In the end, it's a little black sheep that helps Tom choose sides. And with Buchanan on your side odds make no never mind. Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

When hard-traveling Tom Buchanan and his two-fisted saddle partner, Coco Bean, rode into El Paso, flush with the winnings from Coco's last prize fight, they found Ebenezar Shaw, an old friend and proprietor of the Grace Stage Line, in some mean trouble with a greedy big businessman and his hired desperadoes.Buchanan and Coco used their loot to keep Ebenezar's stage line from being grabbed up. Before long, however, Buchanan found himself high in the driver's seat of a hurtling stagecoach. He whipped his team through a crackling hail of bullets-and then went on to defend the spirit of home-grown enterprise from the back of a blazing gun! Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

It was hot enough to burn rawhide, and lizards were frying on flat rocks. It was, Buchanan decided, just about two degrees fiercer than hell, and if he could keep going for another half an hour he'd allow himself a drink from his canteen.He was in a mood for comfort, so naturally he got trouble.He came on the troop of cavalry conducting an army prison wagon, and in the wagon he discovered his old friend, the Apache chief, Sentos, with three of his braves. It was well over a hundred and twenty degrees in the wagon. "What happened, viejo?" Buchanan asked Sentos."I was stupid," the Apache said, "I trusted a blueleg warrior, and he betrayed my flag of white. Now they wish to hang me."Buchanan looked at the troopers and sighed. He couldn't let them hang a friend. Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

He was a tall son-taller than most men by a head, with a look of wildness in his battered, tough face.He was Tom Buchanan out of West Texas, who fought with joy and loved with gusto-who many times had gone to meet death without pause and with great good nature.This time he took on the whole of Agry County and the violent bandit clan that ran it. It was no fight of his-but a girl had been violated and a family's honor tarnished.So Buchanan settled his gunbelt and flexed his great hands and went surging into battle like a one-man troop of cavalry.And, by God, in the end there was left even to burn in Agrytown Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

Bella was quite a town, a free-wheeling, lusty young hell, the kind of town Tom Buchanan pleasured in. But then it turned ugly and made the mistake of angering Buchanan-and when the smoke cleared away there was nothing much left but wholesale mourning. Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

He stepped back and gazed at the tall, smiling man with wonderment. He had just seen him lick the most deadly gunslinger in the West with his bare lists."Where'd you come from?" he asked admiringly."No place in particular," Buchanan said."Is that a fact? And where you bound?""Same place." Buchanan laughed."You must like it there," the little rancher said."I like it best wherever I am," Buchanan replied gently. Jim Buchanan: one of the best heroes of western fiction

The armed deputy prodded Buchanan out of the cell. 'We're taking care of scudders like you who try to buck the law. We're putting you on trial. A judge, a jury, the whole shebang.'And the whole shebang was a frame-up. The self-appointed judge was a madman, part-time sadistic sheriff and part-time lunatic preacher. And the jury he'd appointed was made up of doddering old men either too drunk or too deaf to hear the 'evidence.''You know what the jury's going to do to you?' the deputy sneered at Buchanan. 'That jury is going to hang you. Hang you by the neck.'

Malvaise narrowed his eyes. "So you think you're the man to take on the job of getting rid of me and the boys?" he said. "I never saw a fast gun yet that didn't meet up with a faster one.""Amen, brother," Buchanan agreed.And although Malvaise didn't know it, he was just about to get the chance to see what he was talking about. Buchanan wasn't aiming to buck nobody, but when the iron started to point in his direction, it was usually his lead that zeroed home the fastest. Which could make life for Malvaise a little too hot and a little too short.