No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion-the good and the bad-before the days of law and order. Collected here are six stories penned by America's favorite Western author. "Trap of Gold" Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first color in a crumbling upthrust granite wall with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold. The problem is that the...

At thirty-two Dev is "mostly retired" from Raines Investigations, content to run operations from his sprawling Arizona home. But Dev has never been able to say no to a beautiful woman, so when Lark Delaney comes to him for help to try and track down the baby girl her sister gave up for adoption, the former U.S. Army Ranger from Wind Canyon gets back in the game. But it's not long before Dev uncovers a shady adoption ring and worse--the child's parents...

Despite her marriage to Jim Buckridge, Georgie Jutland has never really become a part of his inbred fishing community, and her tentative link to conventional life is further jeopardized when she begins a love affair with Luther Fox, the local poacher andoutcast.

"Dude McQuinn is at it one more time. He's got himself one hell of a horse. A real flyer named Judge Blair. Better than that, he's got the smoothest snake-oil salesman in the country, Billy Lockhart, as his trainer; and he's got his old Comanche pal, Coyote Walking, as his jockey. Best of all, he's got a sucker. A feller willing to lay two to one that Judge Blair will finish second in a two-horse race. Race day comes, Judge Blair wins by daylight,...

"In 1848, Dooley Monahan, son of struggling Iowa pioneers, went to pick up a new milk cow and never came home. Nearly three decades later, Dooley Monahan has become an accidental legend. His trail is populated by strange friends and dangerous enemies, strewn with bad luck and bad blood--and frequently interrupted by sudden storms of gunfire"--

"Found among a group of unpublished works by Frederick Faust, these two Western stories both deal with cowardice. In "Traynor" the title character is believed to be a weak young man, having let Dr. Parker Channing steal his love, Rose Laymon, away from him. When the stage Traynor is driving into Little Snake is robbed and Traynor's best friend and stage guard, Sam Whitney, is killed by the robber, Traynor chases the thief and recovers his dropped...

A gang of gold-hungry cowboys slaughters a small band of Apaches. During the massacre, an Indian woman promises to lead them to a hidden gold mine if they will spare her life. As they journey to the mine, they are pursued by the only surviving Apache warrior. They soon discover that Apache revenge is painful, slow and fatal.

"Sheriff Doyle Bannion tries to keep the peace in Perdition Wells, Texas, when the four King brothers ride in bent on avenging their father's death"--

Zane Grey is an American icon, the premier chronicler of the West, and the writer who first brought the frontier to life in all its gritty glory. In this classic western, frontier legend Buffalo Jones won't back down from the most dangerous hunt of all... Land Of Blood, Land Of The Brave Big, brash and fearless, Buffalo Jones is in pursuit of the greatest mountain lion ever spotted in the remote Arizona desert. Determined to bring the beast home...