What this story is about ---
Young Dave Sanders becomes very personally involved in the bitter, unceasing feud between honest Emerson Crawford, boss of the D Bar Lazy R outfit, and Brad Steelman, a crooked ranch owner who has a gang of desperadoes. Dave is a level-headed puncher, but when two of Brad's mob steal Dave's pet paint horse, Chiquito, Dave sets off in hot pursuit. He hasn't gone far before he has more than one score to settle with the gambling horse-thieves.
In the midst of his pursuit, Dave is swept by a cross-current of fate into desperate trouble. He breaks into Steelman's secret stronghold, provokes a wild gun battle with Brad's men, rescues Em Crawford from sure death, and makes a raging enemy of devilish Dug Doble.
On the trail again, he makes an adventure-packed journey to Denver, where he finds his pinto - and trouble. Before Dave turns his face toward his home range again, the days stretch into months and the months into years. When he does get home he is a man, bitter and restrained, possessing a quality of strength as hard and cold as steel.
His home range has changed. Oil is the stirring word. Former cattlemen, hit by the get-rich-quick bug, talk of nothing but oil. Crawford and Steelman are now deeply involved in drilling for oil. Steelman has been lucky in his strikes, but Crawford has not.
The old feud between Crawford and Steelman comes to a head the night Brad's gunmen, led by Dug Doble, steal down upon Crawford's most promising oil strike. Dave turns the trick on them to their chagrin.
Against a background of the changing West, William MacLeod Raine writes a pulsing story packed with action, color, violence and love, in which a square shooter battles some of the crookedest deals ever cooked up by a mob of crafty outlaws.
©MCMXXI by William MacLeod Raine

After years of prospecting in South America, Ross Haverill, last of a clan of hard-fighting men, was returning home to Secret Valley. But Haverill didn't count on the changes that time had brought to the untamed West, where the law seldom reached and every man rode as his own judge and jury with a Colt .45 to do his talking for him. And so there wasn't much chance for justice when he found his bitterest foe, Tom Storm, in command of the surrounding country. Haverill remember the rigid Frontier code which decreed a man must settle his own quarrels, and he knew he not only had to save his ranch but must avenge the death of Bob Roberts, who had died helping him!

© MCMXXXIX Jackson Gregory

What this story is about -
Range detective for the State Stock Association, Steve Laird heads for trouble when he rides into a hellhole cow town of northern Wyoming cowland. And he soon discovers that the town is Welcome in name only.
Even the sheriff, Wally Barnes, is afraid of Skyline Walters and his rustlers. The Skyline Riders, they're called, because they've never been seen in Badger Basin. Once in a while some rancher sights them riding across the skyline, but they disappear before any posse ever gets within rifle-shot. Yet horses are stolen from every ranch - so Welcome has plenty of reason to be leary of strangers.
Right away Steve learns that it's unhealthy for a stranger to pick up a man knocked down by Silver Powers, or to outshoot his foreman, the Denver Kid, or to bet a hundred bucks he can ride the man-killing Rosinweed at tomorrow's rodeo. But his real trouble begins when his head is set to spinning by Joan Chandler. After that, no matter how much danger he has to face, outlaws, gunmen, wild horses, all he is conscious of is a joyous, bubbly feeling inside. But Joan Chandler is engaged to marry Silver Powers.
How the range detective, by sheer bluff, gets the best of surly Ringbone bronc-peelers, how, time after time, he walks steadily toward blazing forty-fives, how he traps the rustlers and catches them cold make a story you won't put down.

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