When William Stoval is hanged for the "butchering" of cattle on the Circle K Ranch, a chain of events is brought into play that Deputy Gant has to deal with in THE HANGING AT STINKING CREEK. Gant examines the scene of the crime. In doing so, he doubt...
Two men entered the garage. On the inside one of the men walked to the back of the garage. A four-way tire iron hung by two nails on the garage wall. The man reached up to get the tire iron. Jackson, without an expression on his face shot the man in ...
Axis Powers have fallen and the Allied Forces sweep across the European Continent. Sanklin Morrison returns home from the war to find that his father Sheriff Doc Morrison has been murdered. Sank, is heir apparent to and is asked to fulfill his late f...
"Well?" She asked. "Well?" I replied. She reached down lower sliding her hand down the flatness of my stomach until she reached my underwear. She worked her hand underneath my briefs and closed her hand on my manhood. "Hum mm," she said, sibilantly. ...
"Man's inhumanity to man" began when Cain killed Abel, but this legacy has grown to frightening proportions, as evidenced by the vast number of books that line the shelves of modern bookstores - row after row of titles dealing with death, anger, and ...
A week later on that fatal Thursday night McCann and I went to Trail's End Saloon with Mike sitting at a corner, faro-table where five of Tyler's friends spot him. Carl Ames pulls out his pistol and fires point blank, and McCann drops dead on the flo...
"I know you," he said. "I saw you in Mexia when you shot those two cowboys you claimed were dealing off the bottom of the deck. Man was you fast with your forty-four. The only problem is one of those cowboys was my friend." "You have me mistaken with...
Fifteen dead men and eight years have passed swiftly since the time Cal English, 'The Death Dealer', left Abilene and now the year is Tuesday June 3, 1879. It was only the day before that he received orders from Major Jones Commander of the Frontier ...
She was on the point of stepping out into the road again when a horseman rode into sight between the two rocks. In the same instant of his appearance she heard the unmistakable crack of a gun, saw the rider jerk backward in the saddle, throw up one h...
"It's a boat, sir," whispered Ames, hiding the lantern under his coat. I brushed past him and crept to the end of the dock. The paddle dipped on silently and evenly in the still water, but the sound grew fainter. A canoe is the most graceful, the mos...
"All right--I'll tell you why, fast enough." His tone was grim. "I'm going to leave the country because I can't stay any longer--not while you're in it." "Why--Kent " She seemed inexpressibly shocked. "I don't know," he went on relentlessly, "what yo...
This exhibit looks at the Pacific Northwest, especially the Puget Sound country, and asks, what kind of Euro-American settlers came here? Why did they come? Were their motives similar to those who settled in the trans-Missouri West? Why did the Pacif...
He might have succeeded, and the effort was gallantly made, but Courthorne had never moved his eyes from the shadowy object before him, and even as it sprang, his finger contracted further on the trigger. There was a red flash, and because he fired f...
"If you come any farther before I find a hold, we'll both go down," he said. "It looks like that," Charnock agreed. "I don't mean to stop." Wilkinson clutched at the slippery bank but the wet gravel tore out. It was impossible to get up, and if he tr...
Deal Sanderson walked tall in the untamed forest and wild mountain paths, a strong man who sought peace on the savage frontier. That peace was challenged when a rival gang of men decided to take control of the all the water in the valley. Deal rode u...
Still another change, and one that affected them both, Mavis did not altogether attribute to the revival of her husband's religious belief; but she thought that this had accelerated its progress and confirmed its finality. It had begun after the birt...
There was manifestly nothing in the external appearance of this particular house to bear out the tales of the horror that was said to reign within. It was neither lonely nor unkempt. It stood, crowded into a corner of the square, and looked exactly l...
They were five in number, all dark-faced except one, dark-clad and superbly mounted on dark bays and blacks. They had no pack animals and, for that matter, carried no packs at all. Four of them, at a swinging canter, passed us, and the fifth pulled h...
I will write this novel in the first person. In this manner, I can picture it to you as being factual. Even if I were not personally there I know what I was told to be the truth. The inserts I will put on paper came from truthful men or maybe thought...
First there was the picture of a sandy glade in the middle of which burned a fire with branding-irons in it, and a spotted Calf tied to a tree, but no sign of life. Then, without warning, Bessie Belle threw up her head in that characteristic trick of...
"What time is it?" she repeated softly. For a moment he looked steadily at her, and his heart leaped when he saw that she must believe him, for though her face was as white as an ivory cross she was smiling at him-yes she was smiling at him in that ...
It lay in a golden glow at their feet, a basin of pure light and silence stretching mile on mile to the distant edge of jagged mountain-line which formed its lip. Sunlight strong as wine flooded a clean world, an amber Eden slumbering in an unbroken,...
Once down, Pepper and I started to explore along the banks of the river. It was very dark there due to the overhanging trees, and I moved warily, keeping my glance about me and my stick ready. Pepper was quiet now and kept close to me all the time. T...