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They came from every corner of the State of Oregon and from adjoining states, rough people and refined, all eager to share in a new prospect of comfort and prosperity. Yet, the cause of this boom was a mere rumor, an unsubstantiated report that the government was going to dam a river in distant hills and construct major canals to irrigate the desert. It could be a land rush, as had happened in the past, or something worse, if the rumor really proved false.

Aaron Bixby was a human coyote who preyed on the weak and unlucky. One day he went too far, took too much and made the wrong enemy.

An innocent schoolteacher moves to a distant settlement where cruel men prey on the weak. There are good people there too, but is she brave enough to join them?

The double-crosser clipped me and transferred guns! A murdering thief slips into Budd's store looking for food and cash. He doesn't have long; the sheriff's only minutes behind. He's Budd's son.

There's nothin' like a story of love, giving and happiness for Christmas.

Life on his place outside Burnt Creek in Oregon has become hard for old man Cruze. His daughter in Portland needs 50 dollars badly for an operation, and Cruze doesn't have the money. Then a way seems to come to him. A young fugitive being chased by the sheriff stops at his place. He would be willing to pay the old man 50 dollars to hide him out.

Jim Hunter has been making a go of it for three years on his desert-land homestead. Fighting the desert is no place for a woman, and that was what he had told the woman he loved when he left Portland. But Mary thinks otherwise as she, too, comes to homestead in the high desert.

Ralph Olmstead has found life hard in central Oregon in 1904. Three masked men have held up the Bend-Klamath mail stage four miles north of Burnt Creek. A 500 dollar reward is being offered for their apprehension. That money could make the difference between ruin and survival.

Peter Skene takes what he wants and kills who he wants. Settlers, squatters, rustlers and Indian war parties can't stop him from owning the Bitter Valley and the biggest ranch in Oregon.

“Looking for a little trouble, boys?” asked Wild Bill Hickok. Cowhands surround Buck LaGrange with a sea of fists in a battle that was bound to happen. Why? Because Abilene is packed with angry cattlemen, desperate settlers, ambitious landowners and at least one famous gunslinger. Who'll shoot first?

Slim Shafter rode into Dry Gulch in search of a drink. What he found there was worth far more than the $10 fine that he had to pay the sheriff. He found his father’s killer, Gann Hardesty. Would this be a night of vengeance, when every roustabout's gun was aimed at Shafter, or just an evening’s entertainment?

He grabbed a broken axe handle and circled around Matt Hobart. Rustlers are at work, hidden in the chill darkness of a prairie December. It's bad news for the Hobarts - losing their calf could mean starvation. Can Matt fight alone?

A man is being goaded into renewing a feud in order to uphold his honor. The ultimate result is a gunfight, and the listener is in on all the action until the gun smoke clears.

Old Gabe is accustomed to younger, arrogant men roughing him up. When a newcomer comes in between Gabe and an ugly brawl with a fiery upstart, Gabe isn’t sure how to respond. By helping Gabe, the newcomer has made himself the target of vicious repercussions, but warning him of the danger would break a sacred, unspoken code of the West: Never venture into another man’s business. Yet, since the newcomer has already broken into Gabe’s business, Gabe starts to question if the code should be kept.

A disillusioned doctor and a brave woman join forces in a dangerous deception. It had better work.

Several travelers risk death, and worse, to reach Lordsburg, Arizona. Among them - an English hunter, a whiskey drummer, a young woman known only as Henriette, an army officer's fiancée, a gambler, and Malpais Bill, who's on his way to a gunfight. The stage route crosses hostile Apache territory - and they will be spotted.

As proprietor of a lone boardinghouse in an isolated canyon, Kelsey Taggert is accustomed to the hardscrabble life he endures in the tough Western country. But when a stagecoach brings a beautiful, wily woman and an outlaw to his door, Taggert begins to look for the gentler things in life with which to balance the harsh and stark realities of existence in the West.

Tonight the bullets will fly and rancher or rustler will die. A mystery man will decide whose blood will stain the sick streets of Star.

Lieutenant Parke Stobo was assigned to take 25 men, a guide, and three days' rations into the mesquites by way of Pete Kempel's ranch. Stobo was also instructed to give the greenhorn Lieutenant Wells a taste of the country. It should have been just a routine detail.

Entrusted with the delivery of one hundred pounds of gold to his partners, Johnny Potter faces four days of hard riding alone in a land of robbers and treacherous terrain.