When Tell Sackett rode into Mexico, he believed he was riding to rescue young Orry Sackett from Apache Indians, risking his life and the lives of three companions in the effort. He knew his brother, Orrin, had married, but he did not know he had a son until Orrin's wife, Laura Pritt Sackett, told him so. But Orrin was back in Washington, D.C., so it was up to Tell and his friends to save the boy. Little did Tell know that Orrin and Laura's marriage...

Tell Sackett meets the beautiful Dorinda Robiseau, traveling lady of wit and nerve. Tell is carrying thirty pounds of gold. The young man raised in the mountains begins to wonder if their meeting is a coincidence, especially when the woman convinces him to guide her across the desert to Los Angeles. Tell knows a lot about the desert, but a woman can make him forget what he knows. The trail is strewn with bad men and natural obstacles. One of the men...

Major James Brionne brought Dave Allard to trial for murder. Just before the hanging, Dave swore his brothers would take vengenance. . .Four year later the Allard boys returned to settle the score. Only Brionne's son escaped. They murdered his wife, destroyed his home, and left Brionne nothing but the charred ruins of his past to haunt him. Seeking peace and a new life, Brionne and the boy headed west. But the Allards hadn't finished with him. He...

Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of easterners Rock Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon Crockett and the others refused to listen. Mort Harper, a stranger riding a beautiful black mare, had dazzled them with his charm and good looks. The southern...

He was educated by life and bound to the land he loved. Then beautiful Angelina Foley came up from Texas with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and an old Spanish grant to Radigan's land. Radigan reasoned with them, stood up to them, and when they tried to drive him from his home he fought back, determined to make his enemies taste the bitterness of their greed, their stupidity -- and their blood.

Callaghen's business is soldiering. For twenty years he'd fought all over the world, from China to the deserts of California; now he's a private in the U.S. Cavalry, poorly paid, his enlistment about to run out. He's ready to move on until he comes across a startling discovery: a treasure map belonging to a dead lieutenant who may not have been all that he seemed.

Ponga Jim Mayo, the American master of the Semiramis, a tramp freighter, explores the area around Indonesia, encountering pirates, spies, drug peddlers, and gunrunners.

A collection of mysterious stories, lost notes, and unfinished manuscripts from one of the world's most popular novelists.