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In "Lawman's Heart," Larry Traynor is driving a stage when his shotgun guard is killed in a holdup. He's determined to bring the thief to justice when fate intervenes. Joe Palmer in "White-Water Sam" had been a deck hand on the Thomas Drayton before the railroad came. Now the riverboat is permanently moored because her only chance for a future is to get her downstream through impossible rapids. In the title story, partners in a mining claim divide...
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"The house on the hill in Merridan belonged to Captain Slocum. It was regarded as a house of mystery, and it was protected by dogs that ran the grounds at night and armed men who allowed no visitors, even when the captain was away from the house, which he often was. At just twelve years old, Don Grier braved the terrors of the captain's domain to steal a watermelon - a feat that made him a local hero. Don lives with his mean-spirited Aunt Lizzie,...
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A trio of Western stories. In the title story, Chuck Neilan, who has struck it rich, buys an emerald ring from a pawnbroker. Curiosity drives him to find the original owner and in this way he meets Kate Harvey whose ranch is being ruined by a bandit. Agency"--Title page verso.
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A young boy invades a camp of slumbering outlaws, and manages to create so much havoc that he routs all but one of them... Sleeper and his chestnut stallion Careless are rescued from a flash flood by a man named Bones. When Bones is captured by a sheriff's posse for killing two claim-jumpers, it's time for Sleeper to return the favor... Driven from his hometown, Snoozer Mell chooses the life of a gambler. But he has to return-- and his past will pursue...
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"Tom Palding offers Ned Rippon $500 to impersonate him for five days to find out why Charles Barrett has summoned him back to Tyndal Valley which he fled twenty years ago after killing Sam Barrett. Rippon needs the money and agrees, but soon wonders if he'll survive the five days to collect it"--
20) Acres of unrest
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Peter returns from college to his father's ranch after an accident has left him physically crippled but not without ability or enterprise.
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