Western Action

The choice was simple. Sam Lockwood and his fellow Confederate prisoners of war could spend the rest of their days in a Union prison camp, or they could go west to bring law and order back to the wilds of Arizona as "Galvanized Yankees". They chose to ride west, and sure enough, what they found when they got there was a land turned lawless. Apaches were on the warpath and a gang of marauding Mexican bandidos was cutting up rough.

Official records show that some 80,000 Welshmen made their home in the place now known as the Wild West, though the true figure is likely to have been much higher. This is the story of one of those men.

The awful war was finally over and I was going home. I hoped I still had a home. I didn't leave on very good terms. Me heading north and my three brothers going south. Pa said he just couldn't understand how a son of his could turn against his family like that. I tried to explain my convictions, but he didn't want to listen. So I climbed up on my horse and pointed him north. I got about 100 yards out, then I stopped, turned in the saddle and said goodbye to the home I had known for all of my 17years.

To Hell You Ride, Colorado is the story of the wild lawless mining town in Colorado that was later renamed, Telluride. Will Cannon had already dealt with some of the outlaws from Telluride while he was in Durango, and now he rides to Telluride to rid the small mining camp of the Rugby Gang. Will enlists the help of five Texas cowboys and some miner vigilantes to bring fight Rugby and Killer Cox.

The vigilante, the Black Hood, is doing a good job fighting Marx and his hired killers in Dogtown, Colorado, but Will Cannon thinks the Black Hood might need some help. Will rides to Dogtown to buy saddle horses from some young bronc busters there and he finds himself right in the middle of the fight. Will enlists the help of the three brave young bronc busters and they set out to end the criminal careers of all of the men in the Marx Gang. All of the Will Cannon novels are classic western adventures.

Will Cannon rides to the border town of Columbus, New Mexico, to search for the Blackman Gang. A rancher named Vega, from Mexico, is running a gang of Mexican bandits and renegade Apaches who are robbing and murdering innocent people. Vega has joined forces with a Mexican bandit named Ortiz, who has an army of Mexican rebels. Will enlists the help of the American army to fight the outlaws. A group of vigilantes called the Red Masks are also fighting against Vega. The confrontation comes when General Ortiz tries to buy rifles from a gun runner.

Will Cannon finds out there is a gang of outlaws terrorizing the law abiding citizens in Waco, Texas and he hopes he has found the Blackman Gang. Blackman and his gang of cutthroats killed Will's family and Will cannot rest until Blackman and every member of his gang are dead. Will rides to Waco and finds a gang of outlaws is using murderous mail order brides to kill the husband and steal his property. The outlaw gang is being run by an evil woman and she has plenty of hired killers on her payroll. Will works to bring law and order and justice to Waco.

Tex Larimee is a grizzled Arizona sheriff who’s leaving the deserts of Cactus County behind, blazing a trail east to mix it up with The Slickers in the canyons of Manhattan. Tex’s welcome to New York is a rude one. Robbed of his cash, gun and badge, he’s locked in a room in back of a run-down bar. Breaking out of the bar, he goes looking for his best friend...only to find him dead, his throat cut. And the cops accuse Tex of committing the murder.

Will Cannon rides to Texarkana, Texas in search of the Blackman Gang. He immediately becomes involved in a blood feud between the Monroe clan from Texarkana and the Larson clan from Arkansas. Will meets a beautiful young hillbilly woman named Billy Joe Monroe. Billy Joe is determined to make Will her husband and even though Billy Joe is a handful she does help Will bring the outlaw gang to justice.

There are some events happening in Eastern New Mexico, and Will rides to the area known as Devil's mountain. Will and his brother Joe sell lots horses to the army and the Indian Reservations. Will has heard that there are herds of wild horses and some unbranded cattle along the Canadian river. There are also rumors that several people have disappeared from this area. People in the area say some devil-worshipers are killing people and burning the bodies and giving the ashes to Satan.

At first glance, Shane Preston and Jonah Jones were an odd pair - one a lean, quiet gunfighter; the other a feisty old-timer running to fat. But they shared a special bond and a common goal: to track down the man with the scarred faced who’d killed Shane’s wife. To do that, however, they needed money. So, they hired out their guns as trouble-busters and fought one deadly battle after another, always in the hope that their trail would eventually cross with that of Scarface.

The train robbers derailed the train again in southern Colorado and they destroyed a train car load of fine wine that Will was shipping to his grocery warehouse in Santa Fe. The gangs of train robbers had attacked the train six times this year and four times that train was carrying a strong box with gold and silver coins. This gang or gangs of robbers weren't going to stop robbing the train until someone ended their criminal activities. Will Cannon left his Mora River Ranch and took the train to Santa Fe.

Will Cannon wasn't looking for trouble when he rode into Wallebe, Kansas but trouble found him. Will kills a young outlaw and the outlaw's father, Hemsley runs the town of Wallebe. When Hemsley's hired killers can't kill Will the outlaw boss sends for the Monte Gang. Now Will has to fight 10 vicious killers all alone.

Will Cannon goes to Arizona to buy citrus fruit to ship to the army forts and Indian reservations, but he finds trouble brewing near Phoenix. Clara Alpine is the beautiful woman that owns the citrus groves, and some outlaws are trying to kill her and take her ranch. Will discovers the outlaws are after the freshwater spring on Clara's property, and some of the outlaws are businessmen from town. The outlaws hire some dirty bushwhackers that Will has to deal with while he tries to uncover the boss of the outlaw gang.

Will Cannon rides the rails to Laredo, Texas, to stop a gang of outlaws that has been robbing and killing innocent people in Texas. Will enlists the help of three Texas rangers he rode with in Hell Paso. They are shocked when they find out that the leader of the outlaw gang is an older woman.

Will Cannon rides the rails to St. Louis to find a gang of outlaws that are killing passengers on the Queen of the Mississippi river boat. Will trails the outlaws to New Orleans and finds a beautiful woman in desperate need of his help and he enlists the help of the Cajuns that live in the bayou to fight the outlaw gang.

All the cowboys call this town "Hell Paso" because it is a wild, violent border town. When the railroad came to El Paso, the small, sleepy cattle town boomed, and it became one of the roughest towns in the West. Will Cannon travels to El Paso to settle a dispute with the railroad, but he finds out that some Mexican bandits are planning to rob the bank in El Paso.

Will and Joe Cannon have been selling a lot of supplies and horses in the small mining town of Chama, New Mexico, but now an outlaw gang is trying to take over Chama. Will Cannon and Pete Abrams go to Chama to sell supplies and to confront the gang of cutthroats. Will hopes the man causing the trouble in Chama is named Blackman. Blackman and his gang of murderous outlaws killed Will's family in Virginia several years ago. Will swore he would find and kill Blackman and every member of his gang. The white hot fire of revenge burns deep in Will's soul.

Will Cannon rides the rails to southeastern Colorado to find out why a gang of outlaws are robbing and killing wheat farmers in this area. He finds a lady in distress and a town that is being held captive by the ruthless outlaws. Will goes into action to stop the outlaws that often use wildfires to destroy the crops and homes of anyone that dares to oppose their vicious gang of outlaws.

A vicious gang of White slavers has taken a young girl from her family's farm near Phoenix, Arizona. Will hears about the abduction, and he thinks this crime might be the work of the Blackman Gang. Blackman and his gang of cutthroats and killers murdered Will's family and stole their land right at the end of the war. Will Cannon stood over the graves of his family and swore he would find and kill Blackman and every member of his gang.