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In 1845, special agent John Hayward is sent to the Mexican colony of California to search for the missing U.S. consul, he winds up on the trail of a subversive group known as the "Phantoms in the Night".

Can a place be cursed? Everyone who settles under the peak of El Renegado dies, but the feisty Shane brothers don't care - homesteading is their last chance. Then they step into a brutal fight, making a savage, mysterious enemy. If the Mountain doesn't get them, he'll try.

Town of Twenty Triggers opens this new trio of short novels by Les Savage Jr., marking their first appearance in book form. He was known only as the Joker, a portly, chuckling man with a bland smile, a poker face, and an amazing ability to make a deck of cards perform any trick he desired. His traveling companion is Emmet Pierce, a Texan fast with his gun. When this duo arrives in the small ranching town of Benton, the Joker is ready to take it over and claim it for his own.

A bullet clipped Dirk's hat off. Another stung his hand. After four years in prison, Dirk Hood returns to the hate-filled battle zone of Caprock - where two gangs of ranchers and their hired guns still fight for the water from a dying river. Can either side win this war, or will someone else?

In the sooty blackness of a Tucson alley, Rim Fannin got word that 20 heavily guarded freight wagons were traveling by night toward Tubac. Still bitter over his father's murder, Rim takes a job as a mule skinner with White Mountain Freight, suspecting its owner, John Romaine, of having a hand in his father's death. He wasn't very good with a mule whip but he managed until his train was attacked by Indians.

Johnny Vickers has been offered a deal: rescue Judge Ken's kidnapped daughter from her Apaches, or be charged with murder of his rival. As Vickers follows the trail, he becomes more and more enchanted with the woman he seeks - and he is not alone. Navajos have also spotted the judge's daughter and are taken with her.

"The Wagon Warrior" opens this collection of six Les Savage Jr. stories. In it, David Brooke, a hunter for freight caravans, finds himself shackled in a wagon because he had been raised by the Cheyennes, and they are being blamed for the attack on an earlier supply train. In "The Man Who Tamed Tombstone", singer Kate Lawrence and Eddie Hammer, her manager, arrive in Tombstone for a series of concerts. They find themselves in danger as a power struggle between Sheriff Nevis, supported by Odds Argyle and the Allen Street bunch, and Marshal Graham plays out.

It's been 15 years since Nye Hackett served time in jail for a crime he was framed for by the Buffalo Bow town boss, Bob Cords. Now Cords is planning to use Nye's son Gary as his next scapegoat as he plans the murder of Sheriff Means. Will Nye be able to protect his his son from Cords and somehow restore his reputation?

Earl Webb's telegram to General William Harding said it all: “Located John Fenner here using alias John Steen. Have hint he is planning Pensacola train robbery. Will try to pick him up before he leaves here. Please send requisition warrant at once.” That is, it said everything except the harrowing task of getting John Fenner back to Texas.