Saddle tramp Sam MacKinnon is in trouble. Double-crossed by his partners after robbing a saloon and gambling hall, MacKinnon has been left behind in the mountains of southern New Mexico with busted ribs, a banged-up head, no gun, and no horse. And no chance—because aging lawman Nelson Bookbinder and his Mescalero Apache scout, Nikita—both made legendary by dime novels MacKinnon has read—are leading a small posse hot in pursuit

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The Sackett boys had crossed Black Fetchen and lived to tell about it. Now Fetchen was coming for them with the most expensive hired guns in the country. But the Sacketts were no strangers to trouble and when the showdown came, they would be ready, and someone was going to die.

No one is more evocative of the dusty, gutsy hey-day of the American West than Elmore Leonard. And no story about a young writer struggling to launch his career ever matched its subject matter better than the tale behind Leonard's Western oeuvre. In 1950, fresh out of college -- having written two "pointless" stories, as he describes them -- Leonard decided he needed to pick a market, a big one, which would give him a better chance to be published...

Forty gunslingers from the Lazy A have got Tell Sackett cornered under the Mogollon Rim. They're fixing to hang him if they can capture him alive, fill him extra full of lead if they can't. But the Sacketts don't cotton to that kind of treatment.

Logan Sackett had run the wild trails since near to when he was born, picked up a few horses here and yon and some cattle too, rode the back trails with the bunch, he'd been around. But he'd never bothered womenfolk and he got mighty angry with those who did, especially when the victim was an untamable lady named Emily Talon, born a Sackett.

No matter that Echo Sackett was young, and a woman, and had never been far from the valley. She was still a Sackett, sharp and smart and a better hunter than most of the men she knew. She traveled to the mountains of Tennessee coming up against ruthless killers who'd stop at nothing to cheat her of her inheritance.

"When US Deputy Marshal Will Tanner visits a friend at his ranch--and swaps lead with a trigger-happy horse thief--he earns the wrath of the deadliest, lowlife killers west of the Mississippi. The horse thief is a desperate ex-convict fresh out of Arkansas State Prison and his father is the notorious outlaw, Scorpion Jack Lynch"

"'On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women.' No problem. Or so Red Ryan thinks--until he meets the passengers. They include four holy and silent monks, one beautiful lady tutor, and a drunken, washed-up gunfighter. Even worse, they're crossing the wild Texas hill country where bloodthirsty Apaches are on the loose and a killer is on the prowl. But that can't compare to what's waiting for them at Fredericksburg....

Sackett had a good idea of the where abouts of buried gold across the border in Mexico but he had bad luck. Six years in a Mexican prison put fire in his heart and recklessness in his head and when he caught up with the men who betrayed him, it made no difference that he didn't have a gun.