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Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, young, hard-working cowboys from Fort Concho, Texas, have worked six months--at

After the Civil War, David Shannon makes his way home to the Red River. But his girl has married someone else, and his past as an Indian captive returns to haunt him.

In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a foray into Spanish-held Texas to hunt wild horses and return the mustang herd to sell in Tennessee. Crossing the Sabine River, Mordecai's party encounters...

Twelve-year-old Joey Shipman becomes the target of a murder plot when his father dies and leaves him the family farm, thwarting the plans of his cold-hearted stepmother.

Trey McLean leaves the family farm to head west and make a life for himself as a cattleman, learning the trade along with lessons about deceit, violence, and love.

Joe Pepper is a Texas badman with quite a past. In fact, there isn't much that Joe hasn't done in his forty years of living on both sides of the Texas law-except face the hangman. Now, convicted of murder, Joe is about to get that privilege. But before he goes, Joe has a few things he wants to say-and a few stories that he wants to set straight. With Joe Pepper, legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton tells a fine and moving tale of the history of...

"An action-packed collection of stories of the old West, Law of the Land includes the never-before-published "Biscuits for a Bandit." Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything in between, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. The Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time." -- Provided by publisher.

Young, unproven Lieutenant David Buckalew is returning to Texas with a group of nineteen soldiers, after the first great defeat of the Confederates in the West. When an opportunity arises to capture a secret cache of armaments in New Mexico, Buckalew grabs it, despite the hostility of his own men and the seeming impossiblity of success.

In Texas standoff, Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts. The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of "regulators"-masked vigilantes-and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman whose employer is unknown. The murder of a captured...

After learning of the defeat at the Alamo, the Buckalew brothers and the rest of the garrison at Goliad are determined to defeat Santa Anna.