Hopalong Cassidy has received an urgent message from the dead. Answering an urgent appeal for help from fellow cowpuncher Pete Melford, he rides in only to discover that his old friends has been murdered and the ranch Pete left to his niece, Cindy Blair, had vanished without a trace. Hopalong may have arrived too late to save Pete, but his sense of loyalty and honor demands that he find that cold-blooded killers and return to Cindy what is rightfully...

The Sacketts, #2. Barnabas Sackett was on the run, and the only trail left open to him ran West. With a few fierce fighting friends and his courageous wife Abigail, Barnabas began to carve a place for himself and his growing family. 287 pages.

Accompanied only by his prized Ferguson rifle, Ronan Chantry heads west into unknown territory, and discovers the extent of his courage when he draws the enmity of a man who will do anything and kill anyone for gold.

Guiding settlers across unknown territory, Dan Killoe takes on the added responsibility of helping a stranger who is being hunted by renegede Comancheros.

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion-the good and the bad-before the days of law and order. Collected here are six stories penned by America's favorite Western author. "Trap of Gold" Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first color in a crumbling upthrust granite wall with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold. The problem is that the...

Cattle rustler Jack Bolt has sent out his hardcases to take care of the only man who stands in his way-- Hopalong Cassidy.

Drifter William Tell Sackett finds the home and the woman he wants south of the Tetons, but gold and violence may lose him both.

This is the first half of the story of Barnabus, the patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his migration to North America in 1600. His saga begins when he discovers a purse of gold coins in the mud of Devil's Dyke in Finland. On the run from English authorities, he meets and marries Abigail Tempany, the daughter of a sea captain. Nick Bardle, the master of a merchant vessel, the Jolly Jack, is half pirate, ready to take any advantage of any activity...

Orphan Johannes Verne, raised partly by desert Indians, seeks his fortune in the Palm Springs desert amid the opportunity of early Los Angeles, in a tale of the California frontier.

Galloway Sackett ventures deep into the mountainous Apache country to search for his brother, Flagan, who is unarmed, on foot, and struggling for survival in enemy territory.