In "Mistakes Can Kill You," we meet Johnny O'Day, who has had to make his way in a man's world since he was a boy. Half dead from pneumonia, Joe Redlin and his wife took him in. Their natural son, Sam, harbored plenty of resentment toward the kid. But now, Sam's in big trouble, and Johnny may be the only person who can come between him and a pair of gunmen. Twenty-seven, broke, and armed, Ross Haney is "The Rider of Ruby Hills." Ross thinks he might...

Six short stories by Louis L'Amour.

In "Dust Storm," Bob Lindsay is stuck in his shack in the Powder Mountains during a huge dust storm. When he finally emerges, he finds his water hole is nothing but a wallow of mud, and two-thirds of his crop has been wiped out. Now the two largest ranches in the area are ready to fight for water. Lindsay stopped the fighting once…can he do it a second time? Hugo Ames is the outlaw in "Outlaw's Pursuit" with a $15,000 bounty on his head following...

In book form for the first time, four of Louis L'Amour's finest Western stories. The texts have been restored to the manner in which they first appeared in their magazine publications.

Collects seven short stories set in the golden days of the American West, including the title story in which an easygoing young drifter decides to homestead an unclaimed stretch of land until a cattleman decides to teach him a deadly lesson.

In the field of Western fiction, three authors stand unmatched: L'Amour, Grey and Brand. Now three of their best short novels are collected in a single volume. Zane Grey's From Missouri has been restored from the author's own manuscript and is appearing in paperback in its corrected form. Max Brand's Over the Northern Border is a classic tale of stage coach robbery and relentless pursuit, also corrected and restored from the author's original manuscript....

Two novellas exploring life in the American West.