Then Fate Takes A Tragic Turn.

Their trek will take them into Indian country, and to protect the train from attack, the wagon master has foolishly taken a young Blackfoot woman hostage.This story was originally included in Great American Westerns 1.

Western Little Bytes: The Silent Outcast Caleb Doorn is better known by his Blackfoot name, Many Coups.S.. Doorn is scouting for the U.

Western Little Bytes: Where Trails Divide

A classic tale that features all the beloved subjects and icons — stagecoaches, gold rush towns, and whiskey bars — that represent the romance and excitement of America's frontier.

Drawing upon his years in the mountains of Colorado, he can vividly and realistically depict a variety of Western settings and do so in such a way that the settings assume a character of their own.This story was originally included in Great American Westerns 1.

Western Little Bytes: Payroll of the Dead Honest presentation is only one characteristic of Frazee’s well-crafted tales. He tells a convincing, satisfying, and unusual story even when employing stock Western situations..A major strength is his understanding of the nuances of character, of how people are motivated, of the good and bad within each person, and of the conflicts between man and his environment.

Western Little Bytes: The Last Ride

This story was originally included in Great American Westerns 3..An unplanned murder during a bank robbery has another sheriff on the trail of those on the lam.

Western Little Bytes: Colt-Cure For Woolly Fever

Matt North's secret plan to force an entire range to reverse its decision to raise sheep.This story was originally included in Great American Westerns 3..

Once fired for being old, he's still young enough to be a hero.This story was originally included in Great American Westerns 4.

Western Little Bytes: Retirement Day Joe Miles must save a family from the killing torrents of a flash flood - while under fire from thieves after a railroad payroll.

Then fate takes a tragic turn.

Hunting down the baddest of the bad. With Richmond under siege, Confederate soldier Luke Jensen is assigned the task of smuggling gold out of the city before the Yankees get their hands on it-when he is ambushed and robbed by four deserters, shot in the back, and left for dead.

Now Luke can't get paid unless he catches professional bandit Gunner Kelly and his Apache sidekick Dog Eater.

There, he discovers the true identity of Gunner Kelly, what kind of ungodly terror he has planned, and just how dangerous being a bounty hunter can be. Unfortunately, a would-be man hunter is after the money-toting outlaws, too, and young Hobie McCullough is mostly a menace to himself.

The war is over and Luke is very much alive, his soul forged by the violence he witnessed on the battlefields.

Johnstone, mountain man Smoke Jensen is a legend.Luke Jensen 3: Bloody Sunday Now, Johnstone presents the adventures of Smoke's long-lost brother Luke, who was reported killed during the Civil War. In the bestselling novels of William W.

First came the beautiful prostitute who pointed her alluring attentions in Luke’s direction.

Luke gets bushwacked, his prisoner is gone, and so is a fortune in gold.Now Luke is riding back into the Wyoming wilderness to hunt down McCluskey and his woman to finish what he started. Then came a man who fought by Luke’s side in the war—but the war is over and friendships can turn deadly.

Sure enough, halfway to White Fork, Luke and his prisoner are battling for their lives, and when they finally reach town, they're greeted by a storm of bullets, betrayal, and blood.

And he tells Luke they won't reach the town of White Fork alive because a corrupt sheriff does the bidding of a cattle baron, and that man's son is the true killer.Luke Jensen 5: Death Rides Alone With a band of innocent travelers caught up in the melee, Luke is outgunned, surrounded, and sure of only this: his only job now is survival--by the measured, efficient, righteous killing of as many men as he can. Mountain Man Smoke Jensen's long-lost brother Luke Jensen is a dead shot scarred by war--the perfect formula for a bounty hunter.

For Luke this is more than a hunt.

It’s now a rescue. A raid by a savage gang known as the Legion of Fire has left the peaceful settlement looted, burned to the ground, and the ashes scoured for female hostages—including the marshal’s daughter. Instead, it’s going to take cutthroat cunning for the outlaws of the Legion of Fire to go down in flames—one by one..

Good deeds, however, are like good intentions—the road to hell is paved with them.

Turns out, McKinney’s twelve-year-old son Aaron wants revenge on his daddy for abandoning him and his mom. Luke Jensen has seen some sorry looking bounties in his time, but this one takes the cake.

They’re a gang of actual hired guns—the kind of soulless killers Luke despises—and they’re trying to collect the bounty, too.

Luke Jensen 8: Hired Guns Which means he’ll have to take the road to hell itself—aka Hard Rock, Montana. The notorious Tom Eagle.

The gang’s leader is the demented firebug Goldsmith, along with an equally psychotic partner, Trask.

Years later, Luke Jensen learns about a series of fires wreaking havoc from the Dakota Territory to Kansas.In the darkest days of the Civil War, Neville Goldsmith set the world on fire. Luke Jensen 9: Prairie Fire Luke Jensen tracks down a deranged Yankee-turned-outlaw with a burning passion to torch the prairies, torment the townsfolks, and turn all he sees into a smoldering cinder.

A kill-crazy butcher is loose in the Arizona territory and only one man is bold enough to end the mayhem.Luke Jensen joins a posse of misfits and greenhorns on a murderous manhunt that’s doomed from the start—and there’s no turning back.

. It’s fast becoming the bloodiest manhunt Luke’s ever seen—and the final showdown could be his last. A ruthless half-breed outlaw with a mile-long record of cruelties and crimes, he’s the most wanted man in the territory.

But his hopes of rescuing Rebel are swiftly shattered -- and now he's burning for vengeance, the old-fashioned way.

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On top of that, she blames Conrad for her father's death.

After Conrad Browning, known as The Loner, takes down the men who killed his beloved wife, he hightails it to New Mexico to visit her grave... Turns out the beautiful Miss Tarleton has a long memory-and she's never forgiven Conrad for breaking their engagement and marrying another.

But on the way he's sidetracked by some intriguing travelers who are hunting down a valuable golden artifact.

.. Loner 3: Dead Man's Gold And now it's up to The Loner to get himself and his new friends out of this arid stretch of land before they perish from thirst.

But when the gang turns their big gun on a town, killing several innocent people, The Loner has to choose sides.

.. The best way to take them out? The Loner isn't interested, especially when Sheffield's hot-blooded wife tries to seduce him into going after the gang's leader, Gideon Black--a renegade ex-colonel-turned-outlaw. Loner 4: The Big Gundown Now Edward Sheffield--one of the owners of the railroad--wants to hire Conrad Morgan, known as The Loner, to wipe the gang off the map.

A former pirate named "Black Terrance" Malone, who has arrived in the once peaceful Rattlesnake Valley with a crew of sea dogs to do his dirty work.

They came from the sea: a former ship captain named Owen Bird who inherited a Texas ranch from his brother.. And dirty work it would be, as Black Terrance begins a campaign of thieving and threatening, even targeting Bird's beautiful young niece.

And with Hell Gate behind him, any day could be his last.

.. So the Kid teams up with a fellow inmate with an escape plan, vowing to hunt down a look-alike killer on the loose.

Now, he's behind bars again, until a sheriff's love-struck daughter decides to come to his aid and a beautiful bounty hunter-who also has eyes for the Loner-joins in.Riding out of the frying pan and into the fire of a land war, the Loner has all kinds of murderous cutthroats on his trail.

The third time might be the charm-or a bullet in the belly. That's when the Loner discovered there was a price on his head. A victim of mistaken identity, he broke out of Hell Gate Prison a few years back.

Now, the Kid heads back east to pierce a mystery guarded by murderous criminals for hire.

.. Loner 8: Trail of Blood Now the Loner is about to face his deadliest challenge yet..

He's come as far as Denver, dodged a bullet from a beautiful assassin, and landed in a big buy-in poker tournament against a ruthless heavy-betting cattle baron with a plan of his own--to take this city slicker into the wilderness, and hunt him like an animal.But Rance McKinney doesn't know who he is facing.

Conrad Browning had money, a manservant and a mission: to find his missing children and meet them for the first time. Loner 9: Killer Poker And when he's cornered, the Loner is the most dangerous beast of all..

On his way across the wide, tall Utah territory to California, the Loner meets a beautiful Mormon girl on the run from a forced wedding - and the gun-toting faithful trying to hunt her down.

The damsel is in distress, or so it seems to Conrad Browning.

A woman's betrayal.

. The Loner has come to the right place to save his children. But will they get out of Frisco alive? But they're hostage to a brutal, violent mob feud.

And four women are taken prisoner across the Rio Grande...To go where no man should go alone, The Loner joins a brutal band of scalp hunters.

Led by a charismatic fool, a group of pioneers are crossing Apache territory, blind to the danger around them. Loner 12: Inferno.

The Loner knows the men he's fighting are bad to the bone-led by a merciless killer named Warren Latch.

In a land of legends The Loner has nothing to prove. That's when a beautiful bounty hunter appears on the scene-to lead the way into another vendetta, another betrayal, and one final, bloody fight to the death.As men on both sides of the fight bite the dust, the Loner has fewer allies and no way out.

A Texas Ranger believes her.

. His father was a famous gunman.