SPUR AWARD WINNER TOM W. BLACKBURN'S FIRST EVER COLLECTION! CHOSEN FROM THE BEST OF HIS WESTERN MAGAZINE STORIES.

BROKEN ARROW RANGE Steve Trent dreams of his own herd, and Sheila has a vision of what a fertile valley can mean. They fight side by side in strange alliance for possession of the Broken Arrow range. Up against Big John Fiero and his gunmen. Fiero who said, "I never talk to a man about the same thing twice." But Steve didn't count on doing any more talking, and neither did Sheila.

SADDLEMATES RIDE FOR JUSTICE The Christmas Kid didn't know what it was to be hunted—until a drifting puncher unwittingly set off a flaming range feud.

THE SECRET OF SKELETON CANTON What was the sinister secret hidden deep up the tortuous passages of the unknown San Juan? Desperate men had killed each other to find its answer, long before Steve Duncan risked his life to uncover it. But when he found the answer, Steve woke the howling wrath of a hundred dead gods, who rose to throw him back into hell's teeth, for daring to break the dread mystery of Skeleton Canyon!

EPITAPH Marshal Jack Dall knows only one kind of law: picking right from wrong and backing right with all the force and judgment he has. Showdown finds him a man alone, forsaken by his friends, misunderstood by his wife—but Jack Dall does his job as he sees it. This a is powerful story of a man's devotion to duty at the cost of personal pride, the respect of friends, and the comfort of the woman he worships.

WAGON CAMP He was a mite gun-shy of women and it didn't help any when the one he thought he wanted showed herself tricky as well as ornery.

SONG OF THE STEEL RAILS He was old, crippled, facing forced retirement, and thought his life had never amounted to much. And then he got one last chance at redemption—if he could find the courage to take it.

MENU - HOT LEAD Jacob didn't cook up that devil's broth of trouble in the Longhorn—but he was ready to help a salty stranger bring it to a boil!