When a crazed outlaw named Chilly Lloyd instigates a heinous crime, it seals the fate of seven other men. Now two friends, Brett Jackson and Reggie Satterfield, put aside their journey to a peaceful life and set out to bring the killers to justice. Stella Burdette has never had much luck but hopes for better things when she agrees to run a chuck wagon for eight hunters, including Chilly Lloyd. Soon, though, she must run for her life. And then Brett and Reggie fall into a deadly trap and are doomed to discover there is No Quarter at Devil's Fork.

Dayton Garrett is something of a trouble-shooter, often taking on hard or dangerous jobs. His brother offers to help with his most recent problem, but the aid comes at a price. Soon, a simple child recovery escalates and ends up angering the family who run the town of Shilo. Dayton then finds himself drawn into a second battle, this time against the most powerful family in Larkinville. Kidnappers, slavery, and guarding a condemned prisoner, while facing off against deadly killers from two different towns who want him dead - it could be that Dayton has finally taken on more than any one man can handle. However, Dayton has never quit a job until it is done. He battles the odds, no matter how great, until he wins the fight ...or dies trying.

After being paid off for delivering horses to the army, Del Gannon and his partner, Johnny Concho, stop off in Yuma. Del aims to quit the tough business of bronc busting and buy an orange farm in California. Johnny holds the money while Del gets cleaned up in readiness for signing the contract, but Johnny is robbed and killed. Bent on revenge, Del finds the killers and rescues a young Indian, Lone Wolf, from their clutches, but one of the killers escapes. Lone Wolf, the son of Yuma Indian chief, Painted Tail, presents Del with some mysterious black stones. The part these stones play in bringing Johnny's killer to justice makes for a breath-taking scenario in a tale of duplicity and courage.

Returning home from the Civil War, Ranger Nicolas Kilpatrick and some of the men he led, continue to serve, protecting settlers from Indian attacks and tracking down gangs of robbers and rustlers. While fulfilling the request of a dying bandit, at an outlaw stronghold, Nick stumbles across a woman hiding from the very gang for whom he is searching. To protect the lady and keep his promise means battling more than a dozen hardened killers: the odds are long, the stakes are high, and a deadly race to Dead Man's Canyon is Nick's only chance to avoid capture for the lady, and his own certain death.

Dean Latimer has a reputation for staying cool under fire and being handy with both his fists and guns. So, when the US marshal needs him to help a lady prove her brother innocent of a murder charge he is the perfect man for the job. Baxterville though is run by three crooked men with gunslingers backing their play and when Latimer tries to save the innocent man he ends up accused of murder and running for his life. But Dean Latimer didn't earn his good name by being meek. When it comes to a fight, there's hell to pay and no refunds for the losers.

After the Civil War, three Valeron brothers brought their families to an untamed wilderness at the Colorado-Wyoming border. Fifteen years later, they had carved out an empire, complete with cattle, mining, a mill, and the nearby town named after them. When Scarlet Valeron, poised to be married in Pueblo, Colorado, is kidnapped and her betrothed killed, a desperate call goes out to the Valeron family. Brothers, cousins, and hired help unite in an effort to find her and bring her back. They learn Scarlet is on her way to Brimstone, a bandit stronghold of over a hundred gunmen and outlaws. Most men would look at the incredible odds and figure Scarlet was lost forever. The Valeron’s, however, see it as a matter of family honour to get their kin back, and settle the score!

Phoenix Cline had seen the error of his ways and wanted to do something worthwhile with his life. Helping a few indentured Chinese didn't seem like a bad start. But making dangerous enemies by opposing them, or leaving dead bodies behind, is not the smartest way to escape life as a gunfighter. Seeking a peaceful existence and a woman to love are all Phoenix wants. But when men start shooting at him from ambush or come to town gunning for him, the only law he can make them respect is The Gun Law of Phoenix Cline!

After a bizarre double killing forces her into exile, Rowena Jansen is living like a hermit in Keylock, Colorado, and concentrating only on survival. Travis Clay went off to war and witnessed the terrible suffering of men and his country. Afterwards, he joined his friend to work on a ranch, but when a deadly ambush costs Clay a herd of cattle and leaves him near death, he sets out to find the men responsible. Inadvertently ending up in Keylock, his fate is joined with that of Rowena. Four men are searching for her, intent on a killing, while Travis is on the trail of five or six murdering rustlers. The only way to win such a war is to invite both sides to a showdown.

The rural folk humor written by Arkansas writer C. F. M. Noland beginning in 1837 is brought together in a collection of semiautobiographical letters that tell tall tales in dialect, reflecting the peculiar characteristics of the people of a backwoods region. Original.