Stories of the Golden West

A collection of classic Western tales Tappan's Burro by Zane Grey Prospecting was lonely business for Tappan, but his burro Jenet was good company, and she knew the trails and waterholes better than Tappan. She tracked with him, faithful, his only friend. And he repays her with a final, supreme effort of heart, will, and spirit. Jargan by Max Brand Jargan, a summer gambler wintering in the western town of Big Horn, saves the life of Don José Cordoba and unwittingly acquires a new job. Soon he finds himself on a boat to Buenos Aires as the handler-and protector-of two extraordinary horses. The Trail to Crazy Man by Louis L'Amour Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings-but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec, whom he hopes will protect his family.

A collection of classic Western tales. Cañon Walls by Zane Grey; Smoke Bellew enters a remote Mormon settlement only a jump ahead of a posse. Finding employment as a ranch hand working for a dowager Mormon, Smoke finds that his life undergoes a transformation and he is able to make her ranch a financial success, at the same time falling in love with her wanton daughter, Rebecca. But it is too good to last. The law follows him. Black Sheep by Max Brand; Young Mary Valentine-upstart, tomboy, and general troublemaker-is seeking to protect a man wanted by the law. To complicate her life even further, her two cousins, who have been dodging the law, return home and decide with their father to join the notorious Markle gang in holding up the local bank. Showdown on the Hogback by Louis L'Amour; Tom Kedrick is hired by a financial syndicate to run off a gang of vagrants and outlaws from a certain strip of land. Kedrick sets out to serve justice, but to his dismay, these "vagrants and outlaws" turn out to be hard working ranchers and farmers also claiming the land.

A collection of classic Western tales From Missouri by Zane Grey When a pretty new schoolteacher arrives, the Springer ranch hands are falling over themselves to impress her. But the lecherous Beady Jones has his own idea of how the new schoolmarm should be introduced to the West. Over the Northern Border by Max Brand Jack Trainor, a fugitive from justice, becomes lost in the Canadian Rockies. A trapper finds Jack and saves him. Over the course of some months, he repays the trapper for his kindness in a way that causes some difficulty. Riders of the Dawn by Louis L'Amour A young gunslinger is changed for the better by a meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic range-war Western, this novel features that powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision of the American West for which L'Amour's fiction is known.