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Wayne D. Overholser
Three men–a scout, a soldier, and a reporter–will have their lives changed forever after they join General Crook’s expeditionary force in the 1876 campaign against the Cheyenne and Sioux –
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Two western stories find young men fighting to preserve the ranches they grew up on when others try to destroy the ranches for their own profit –
In two western stories, young men try to do what they feel is best despite opposition from family and friends. The love of a woman will give them the motivation…
Wayne D Overholser
Clay Roland, marshal of Paiute City, was on the street when the young stranger rode into town. Clay’s experience as a lawman told him that a stranger might mean trouble…
Small ranchers in Harmony Oregon are up against it with the price of cattle down and Skull Ranch, owned by a syndicate, trying to buy them out. Dan Riley spends…
A story of brutal competition and devastating betrayal set in central Oregon.
It was while Neal Clark was in the gunsmith’s shop that the Shelly gang attempted to hold up the bank. Neal rushed out of the shop with his rifle, took…
From a three-time Spur Award-winner comes the tale of an orphaned boy who is forced to become a man.
Mark Kelton is eighteen years old-part boy, part man. On the…
Backcover: Center Point Large Print Edition Western.
A reporter investigates the case of a young man who disappeared after killing the son of a powerful, unscrupulous rancher and soon finds himself part of the story –
A gold rush threatens to break the peace of a quiet Colorado town. Angel’s Landing was the mining town that grew up around a gold strike in the hills of…
In the title story of this duo of novellas, a U.S. agent must prevent a shipment of rifles from reaching the Comanche in New Mexico. Surrounded by enemies and accused…
These two short novels demonstrate the range of the author’s American frontier fiction. High Valley, set in the Colorado Rockies, tells of the Wagon Wheel spread where the owner has…
Previously published: New York: Leisure Books, 2001.
Formerly a Colorado mining town, Nugget City has made the transition to a ranching community. But the transition isn’t easy and bad blood is the result. A range war is…
The three-time winner of the Spur Award presents three of his classic novels in one collection that demonstrates his range of imagination and depth of characterization. Includes Rainbow Rider, The…
Mack Jarvis’s love for a local rancher is cut short when a banker announces his engagement to the lady. Mack’s life takes a turn for the worse after he defends…
Marshal Dave Harmon must take on a ruthless businessman and his gang of hard cases if he’s to uphold the law in Miles City.
In this story Delaney falls prey to the charms of Ruby Prentis - only to be charged with rape by Ruby’s steady boyfriend, and deputy sheriff. Del escapes and flees…
A hired guns life dramatically changes when hes wounded in a shootout and is taken in by a rancher, who nurses the gunslinger back to health.
The three novellas in this collection feature a reformed gunfighter forced to defend his land; a young attorney who accidentally foils a robbery to become a dubious town hero; and…
When you live the sort of life I do -- the life of a hired gun -- you start to figure you can handle any tough hand who comes along…
Twelve traditional Western stories set in Oregon and Colorado about lawmen, gunfighters, cattlemen, sheepmen, businessmen, lawyers, teachers, stubborn old men and independent women –
Denver Daily Chronicle reporter Bob Norberg is sent to Smith’s Cove, Colorado, to write a story about Susie Bowman, a woman who had been tried for rustling and because of…
What is it that pushes a man, cold-bloodedly and with his eyes wide open, into a spot where he knows he’s buying into trouble – bad trouble, even to the…
The Courage Builder first appeared in Ranch Romances (5/27/49). Copyright 1949 by Warner Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed 1977 for Wayne D. Overholser –Copyright page.
Murdo Morgan returned to Paradise Valley, Oregon, expecting trouble. Sixteen years earlier, his father had planned to help hundreds of families settle in the valley. Not wanting to lose their…
A remarkable battle was fought at Beecher Island, Colorado, in 1868. Forty-nine untrained volunteers, two wounded officers, and a dying army doctor were nailed down on a sandbar in a…
Dirken’s Hole never bothered the outlaws who wintered there if the outlaws didn’t bother them. Then one young man broke this rule.
Nugget City was a Colorado mining town that made the transition to a ranching community. But the transition wasn’t easy and it left a lot of bad blood. A range…
Murdo Morgan returns to Paradise Valley to fulfill his father’s dream of settling a thousand farming families there despite opposition from the rancher responsible for the deaths of Monroe’s father…
In two western stories involving stagecoach hold-ups, men must make decisions that will determine their futures –
Stories included:
The Woman from Cougar Creek The Price of Pride The Devil and Old Man Gillis Shooting for a Fall It’s Hell to Be a Hero The Tongue-Tied Cowboy…
