Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man ... Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight--a soldier's wife and a fortune in gold--knowing that someone wanted him dead ... Laurie Bonnet was a mail-order bride who thought she was a failure...

Narrowly escaping an unjust lynching, a hard-riding, solitary drifter known only as Passin' seeks vengeance on the good citizens who framed him.

Here is L'Amour's great epic of human courage and endurance, his brave saga of the men and women who pushed relentlessly forward--despite nature, savage enemies, dangers and death--to win the wide, shining lands of the rich and untamed West.

Ruble Noon fights to save Fan Davidge's ranch from the greedy double-dealers and vicious gunfighters who are after a hoard of gold buried on her land.

When Eileen Mulkerin is about to lose her ranch, an old Indian leads her to hidden gold.

Matt Brennan inherits a ranch from a murdered man and must use his well-practiced gunfighting skills to keep it.

Matt Coburn was going to bring law and order to Confusion, even though he had to face every kind of gunman, knife artist, and dry-gulcher there was.

When greedy copper mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the coalition of local ranchers in the town of Resolution, Everett Hitch and his friend Virgil Cole find themselves in the middle of a war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers.

Milo Talon continues the independence and loyalty of the Sackett and Talon families when a man betrays one of his kin.

Colonel Utah Blaine escapes from a Mexican jail and makes his way to Texas where he saves a wealthy rancher whose own men were looking to steal his land.