"In this action-packed western, Texas Ranger Walt Slade stops in San Antonio for a few days rest and finds himself the target of a protection syndicate when he interrupts an attack and ends up killing two of the outlaws"--

"From Texas to Tombstone, Arizona, Texas Ranger Walt Slade has trailed a killer who always seems to be one step ahead of him. Now he not only has to get his man, but also has to convince Marshal Wyatt Earp that he isn't an owlhooot"--

""It'll be a powerful big chore for one man to clean out that nest of cutthroat rattlesnakes!" Jim McNelty, Captain of the Rangers, was sure that if any man could rid Texas of the vicious Rimrock Raiders, it was his ace lieutenant, Walt Slade. Little did he know, when he gave his orders, that he was sending Slade on his most perilous mission -- to slip the loop on the leader of the outlaws, a man whose blur-fast draw and sharp wits had never been...

Huck Brannon took top honors when it came to hard riding and fast shooting, but his dream was to have a ranch of his own. When Old Tom, a salty cowpoke, showed him a faded scrap that was alleged to be a map to a lost mine full of treasure, Huck just couldn't resist. This might be his only chance to have his dream come true. Instead of gold or silver, though, Huck found coal. Not exactly the riches he'd hoped for, but mighty valuable in its own right....

"It was rough killer country. For months the border had been smoldering with hate. A gold-crazed gang was at work. Mexican was pitted against Texan and the countryside was an inferno of gunfire and bloodshed. Into this snakes' nest rode one man--Walt Slade, Texas Ranger. His mission was to bring justice and peace to the Border. But as the Ranger set out to find the hidden haunt of the vicious bandits, he became marked a target for death."--

"The Headless Ranger: that was the finish the outlaws planned for Slade -- blow his head off with a fiendishly clever booby trap. Then they could go back to their profitable campaign of terror, murder and theft, bleeding the border country dry. But Slade dodged the trap -- and the bandits started dropping under the blazing guns as the hard-eyed Ranger shot his way closer and closer to the hidden mastermind -- and to the final deadly shootout in a...

Oil and bullets - Sanderson City has swallowed plenty of both. When Walt Slade arrives to put a lid on the violence, the town is set to blow sky-high in his face. A lit fuse, a shotgun blast in the dark... and the ace undercover Texas Ranger is plunged into a searing sixgun showdown with a greed-crazed pack of killers.

Once more Ranger Walt Slade, the hawk-faced scourge of evildoers, buys into trouble on the interests of justice. This time the slick-iron trail starts in the Texas Big Bend country -- where the colors are more vivid, the mountains higher, the men bigger than elsewhere, and the cattle in need of more acreage. When Slade met them, Curly Bill Elkins and his crew claimed to be pursuing rustlers of one of the region's far-flung herds. But the local sheriff,...

"Walt Slade rides back to Echo, Texas-- the scene of a past showdown-- to find he must challenge a new and deadlier desperado gang! The safety of the town and Walt Slade's friend hangs in the balance while the greatest of the Texas Rangers meets his match in a hail of bullets on a hellfire range"--Provided by publisher.