William MacLeod Raine

Both were men who knew the frontier code and each other. At a time of action, speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.' Readers who like Max Brand and Zane Grey will enjoy this western novel from William Macleod Raine. Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border is about Lieutenant Bucky O'Connor, who works with Sheriff 'Bear Trap' Collins to catch train robbers.

"In two western stories set in Arizona, strong and silent cowboys use their wits to overcome bullies while avoiding gunplay as much as possible"--

In this first novel by one of the western's most published writers, mistaken identities bring together a schoolmarm from the East with a sheep man believed to be an outlaw. While menace endangers its central characters on the plains of Wyoming, love overtakes the hearts of not one but two young couples. (Goodreads)

Excerpt: "A thin wisp of smoke drifted up from the camp at the edge of the wash. It rose languidly, as though affected by the fact that the day was going to be a scorcher. Already, though the morning was young, a fiery sun beat down on the sand so that heat waves shimmered in the air. Occasionally a spark from the crackling cottonwood limbs was caught by a dust whirl and carried toward the field of ripe wheat bordering the creek. Of the campers there...

William MacLeod Raine was a small boy when he came to this country in 1881 from London, England, with his father and brothers. They settled in the Southwest, then a land lawless at times and places. Jesse James and Billy the Kid still terrorized the districts in which they lived. Most of the characters mentioned in this book were alive, and vigorously fighting for or against the law, while Raine was growing up. After his graduation from Oberlin College,...

"You're on your way to HELL!" The outlaw Roush brothers whirled from the bar at the sound of the harsh voice. What they saw was a kid not yet eighteen - but what a kid! He was Jimmy Clanton, a tough rawhider who had notched his first killing two years before. "What do you want with us?" growled Dave Roush. His brother Hugh moved slowly along the bar. The kid, hands propped on his hips, watched quietly. "I'm here to settle for what you two did to...

The fugitive was Cape Sloan (or so he called himself), late of Yuma Penitentiary. He was young, but tough as rawhide, reckless as a plains-bred mustang. And he'd sworn a bloody revenge on the ruthless killers who shot down his father, robbed his mother, and sent him to jail on a framed-up murder charge. The law was after him, and a pair of gun-toting rattlesnakes tried to get him by every means from lynching to ambush. But Sloan hung on like grim...

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of western booksBrand Blotters by William MacLeod RaineThe Watchers of the Plains by Ridgwell CullumThe Free Range by Elwell LawrenceThat Girl Montana by Marah Ellis RyanShoe-bar Stratton by Joseph B. AmesDesert Dust by Edwin L. SabinColorado Jim by George GoodchildCattle Brands , by Andy AdamsThe Log of a Cowboy , by Andy AdamsThe Outlet , by Andy AdamsReed Anthony, Cowman , by Andy AdamsA Texas Matchmaker...

Another barnstorming Western adventure from the prolific pen of William MacLeod Raine. Bob Lee, Youthful cowboy, on the JAB ranch in the Indian Territory before Oklahoma became a state, arouses the enmity of a territory bootlegger by pouring out his stock at a nations barn dance at Cale Station. He gets deeper into a death-threatening situation by protecting his boss' daughter, Willie May Broderick, from dancing with a bleary-eyed member of the Hickory...

"Texan Jerry East rides into Powder Horn and is instantly pegged as the man who dry-gulched a young homesteader. Barely escaping a lynch mob, Jerry stays after his alibi checks out to help the sheriff in his search for the phantom killer and to fulfill the mission that brought him to town in the first place"--