"Elmer Kelton writes of early Texas with unerring authority. His knowledge of the state's history is complete, too-drawn from the lives of real people ... The fate of Texas is at hand, and Kelton will have readers eager to find out what happens."-

Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his West Texas home of 1906, the land and the way of life that he loves are changing too quickly for his taste. Hewey dreams of freedom - he wants only to be a footloose horseback cowboy, endlessly wandering the open range. But the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing: land is being parceled out, and barbed-wire fences are springing up all over. As if that weren't enough, cars, and other machines are...

"Under mounting pressure from his displeased superiors in Washington, Evett Nix, chief Marshal of Oklahoma, launches one final desperate plan to round up the notorious Bill Doolin and his deadly gang, the Wild Bunch"--

Johnstone Country. Mountain Man Justice. If theres one thing Smoke Jensen hates, is a man who fights dirty. And no one fights dirtier than a politician. Especially a lying, cheating, no-good grifter like Senator Rex Underhill. Luckily, with another election coming up, this senatorial snake in the grass has some serious competition: Smokes old friend, Sheriff Monte Carson. Carson's an honest man, and he's got Smokes full support. But Underhills got...

Parker Stanley's family had a dream: to start a new life in the Far West. But en route, a Cheyenne band slaughters his parents and abducts his sister, leaving him for dead. Then a cowboy named Clay Springer rides to the rescue, and comes up with an idea. He's got a team ready to deliver goods to the Mormons in Utah, but he's short on funds for supplies. He knows that Parker managed to hold on to his family's savings, so he suggests a fifty-fifty...

Falsely convicted drifter Johnny McAllister is bent on revenge against the man who wiped out his family fifteen years earlier, until he meets Ragan, a beautiful and kind housekeeper.

He was a loner and a brooding man who trusted nothing and no one -- a white man as cunning as any Indian who owned nothing but his horse, his saddle and his guns. He was a man willing to gamble his life to get the woman he wanted. He was Shalako. Now Shalako is determined to cross the bleak Sonora Desert -- the Apaches' killing ground -- alone. On his way, he finds a European hunting party -- and a brave and beautiful young woman -- stranded and defenseless....