Gambler’s Odds: A Western Quartet

‘Who’ll Tame the Wild Tabors’ is the story of Brad Tabor, the grandson of King Tabor, a rancher who has been locked for years in a feud with Bo Kemstead of the Ladder P. Brad’s grandfather doesn’t think Brad has what it takes to ramrod the ranch, but that is before King Tabor is shot from ambush.

Mart Gaines in ‘Brand of the Hangtown Kid’ was abandoned by his outlaw father, Big Jack, and taken in by Cap Hollister. Mart has grown into a man of integrity and is foreman of Hollister’s Lazy W Ranch. Then his life is turned upside down when he learns that his father is cornered by a posse in a mine shaft. Mart knows of a way to escape from the mine shaft, but to help Big Jack will mean deserting the life he has come to know and the kind of person he has become.

Pres Morehead in ‘The Quickest Draw’ left home and found his fortune in the Argentine. Now he returns to the land where he grew up, only to learn that his brother was killed in a gunfight and his father was murdered. Hoping to learn the truth, he hides his identity because he knows the shadow of danger is everywhere.

When Dave Garrison finds rancher John Farrow hanged in his home, his niece also dead, and one of his retainers staked out over an ant hill, Dave decides to ‘Ride the Blood Trail’ in the pursuit of the killers, but the trail leads in an unexpected direction filled with unpleasant surprises and finally desperation.