"Bordered by the Blackfeet Reservation to the north and mountain ranges to the east and west, Cutthroat County is seven-hundred glorious square miles of Big Sky grandeur. For generations, the Maddox and Drew families have ruled the county - often at odds with each other. Today, Ashton Maddox runs the biggest Black Angus ranch in the country, while County Sheriff John T. Drew upholds the law like his forefathers did over a century ago. A lot has changed...

"Robert E. Howard turned to writing comic and dialect Western tales only late in his career, but he found an immediate and continuously successful market for them, and they are in many respects his most accomplished and polished works. The sixteen tales collected here are some of the best of his stories, featuring Breckinridge Elkins, Pike Bearfield, and Buckner J. Grimes - three inimitable characters who lead well-intentioned lives of perpetual confusion,...

"A dust-covered cowboy read the weather-beaten placard, his fearless gray eyes flaring into a savage glitter. Then he roweled his horse along the trail to Halfway. Happy Day was a stranger in the Powder River section where rustlers stooped to murder and old ranchers were waging a losing fight. He was a marked man when he strolled among the drunken, noisy punchers of Halfway's main street. Ominous silence greeted his arrival at the lunch counter of...