Zane Grey

"Is Frayne an outlaw?" Holly Ripple asked. "Miss Holly, it takes bad men to cope with bad men on this frontier. If you could hire him, he'd be a whole outfit in himself. Course, a lady like you wouldn't have Frayne's sort around your ranch." ... "Wouldn't I?" When her father dies, sheltered young Holly Ripple gains possession of his vast cattle empire, plagued by rustlers and desperadoes. But she stands firm and soon has earned the reputation of a...

A man takes the blame for his brother's crime and eludes Texan Rangers for years.

A Missouri guide is forced to choose between going to jail or leading a wagon train across perilous plains to the West. As the caravan winds westward, it faces bitter weather, rugged terrain, betrayal and hostile Indians.

Tom Doan joins the buffalo hunters going into the Southwest's inhospitable Staked Plain. Seeing huge herds there, he thinks of getting rick off their hides. He proves efficient as a skinner, and what follows is almost a literal baptism in sweat and blood. Fighting the Commanches and Kiowas, some unscrupulous white hunters, and his own conscience, he ages fast-all the faster in facing obstacles to his love to Milly. She, like Tom is in constant danger...

Upon the death of his uncle, tenderfoot Easterner Ernest Selby takes over his uncle's Arizona ranch and has to quickly learn how to be a rancher, a law-enforcer, and a cowboy.

Hoping a change in environment will ease John Lindsay's sickness, his family heads west to discover that their new homestead is an abandoned military post, and they've ridden into the middle of a gang of thieves and rustlers who have total control of the desolate land.

With cattle rustling on the rise in the cattle town of Randall, Wyoming, newcomers Martha Ann Dixon and Andrew Bonning join the ranchers in their fight to protect their livestock

Lark Burrell loves wild horses and, with the help of a handsome man, she finds the courage to confront someone who traps and sells wild horses to chickenfeed manufacturers.

In thirty years of prospecting, old Jim had never discovered Amber's Mirage-a shining cliff above a spring that ran heavy with gold. But his young sidekick took up the search to find the gold-a search that would cost him two years away from wild Ruby, the woman he loved.