A New York City boy's preconceived ideas of life in the West make him very apprehensive about the family's move there.

From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning--from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women--that shaped him...

By the time he was twenty, Rye Tyler had killed ten men. He had come west in a wagon train, seen the Indians kill his family and been left on his own in a harsh and wild country. From that brutal lesson Rye learned the harsh law of survival: the only friends he could trust were his rifle and his .44. His skill not only kept him alive, it made him a man to be feared. Then Rye met Liza, and there was a bright new light in his life -- a light a ruthless...

When New York society beauty Madeline Hammond bought a ranch near the turbulent Mexican frontier, she got much more than she'd ever bargained for--abduction by Mexican guerrilas and rescue by Gene Stewart. T hen one day the tables were turned when bandits sentenced Stewart to die. Now Madeline rides to save the life of her newfound love!

Hopalong rode into cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they hunted him down, shot him, and left him for dead. Jack Bolt, a savage, ruthless killer, has brought in a tough band of hardcases to run his operation....

Hopalong Cassidy, the quick-thinking, fast-shooting cowpuncher heads west to deliver a fortune in bank notes to his old friend, Dick Jordan. When he arrives at the Circle J, he discovers that the rancher and his daughter, Pam, are being held prisoner by a desperate band of outlaws led by the ruthless Avery Sparr and his partner Arnold Soper. Even if Hopalong Cassidy can free Jordan and Pam, he will have to lead them across rough and untamed Apache...

A Fightin' Fool is what you'd have to be to take on the Rankin boys, but that's just what Jingo did. First, he had te gall to accuse Wally of cheating at poker -- and was quicker at the draw when Wally chose to defend his "honor". Then he bet his friend that he could not only dance with, but marry the prettiest girl at the up-coming shindig. Of course she tured out to be the daughter of the judge and the sweetheart of a man who knew that the Ranking...