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Harley Bowman is the sheriff of the small town of Tucumcari in New Mexico. A serial killer has been murdering young women and burying their bodies at a rest area beside the Interstate. Can Harley and his friend, Dave Crocker, the sheriff from Amarillo, Texas catch the serial killer before more young women die?

Will Cannon rides the rails to St. Louis to find a gang of outlaws that are killing passengers on the Queen of the Mississippi river boat. Will trails the outlaws to New Orleans and finds a beautiful woman in desperate need of his help and he enlists the help of the Cajuns that live in the bayou to fight the outlaw gang.

An old miner is killed in Santa Fe and Will Cannon finds a piece of the Lost Jesuit Map. A vicious outlaw named Hawkins has the other three pieces of the map and he sends some of his gang members to kill Will Cannon get the last piece of the map. Will goes to Phoenix to hunt down the Hawkins Gang and he joins forces with an old miner that has been looking for the Lost Jesuit Gold for years.

Will and Joe Cannon have been selling a lot of supplies and horses in the small mining town of Chama, New Mexico, but now an outlaw gang is trying to take over Chama. Will Cannon and Pete Abrams go to Chama to sell supplies and to confront the gang of cutthroats. Will hopes the man causing the trouble in Chama is named Blackman. Blackman and his gang of murderous outlaws killed Will's family in Virginia several years ago. Will swore he would find and kill Blackman and every member of his gang. The white hot fire of revenge burns deep in Will's soul.

To Hell You Ride, Colorado is the story of the wild lawless mining town in Colorado that was later renamed, Telluride. Will Cannon had already dealt with some of the outlaws from Telluride while he was in Durango, and now he rides to Telluride to rid the small mining camp of the Rugby Gang. Will enlists the help of five Texas cowboys and some miner vigilantes to bring fight Rugby and Killer Cox.

Will Cannon rides the rails to southeastern Colorado to find out why a gang of outlaws are robbing and killing wheat farmers in this area. He finds a lady in distress and a town that is being held captive by the ruthless outlaws. Will goes into action to stop the outlaws that often use wildfires to destroy the crops and homes of anyone that dares to oppose their vicious gang of outlaws.

Will Cannon finds out there is more trouble brewing in Las Vegas, New Mexico and he rides the rail to Las Vegas to find some outlaws robbing and killing innocent folks. Will Cannon will not tolerate that so he goes to work bringing the outlaws to justice.

Some dirty polecats Arizona Moonshiners are making poisoned moonshine and selling it to Apache Indians, miners and cowboys near Globe, Arizona. Will gets help for two local cowboys and he uses the authority given him by the Arizona Rangers to hunt down the outlaws. He discovers that the moonshiners are also robbing the payroll shipment from the train and that the Indian Agent on the San Carlos Indian Reservation may be the boss of the outlaws.

A vicious gang of White slavers has taken a young girl from her family's farm near Phoenix, Arizona. Will hears about the abduction, and he thinks this crime might be the work of the Blackman Gang. Blackman and his gang of cutthroats and killers murdered Will's family and stole their land right at the end of the war. Will Cannon stood over the graves of his family and swore he would find and kill Blackman and every member of his gang.

Will Cannon and his brother, Joe are in Santa Fe, New Mexico and they meet their old rancher friend, Charlie. Charlie has invested his money in a silver mine and Will know this silver mine is a swindle. Will puts the law on the swindler and get's Charlie's money back but the swindler hires two cold blooded killers to kill Charlie and Will. The hired killers do kill Charlie and that sends Will on a mission to get justice for Charlie.

Will Cannon rides to Show Low, Arizona, to check on a shipment of lumber, and he finds some outlaws trying to take over the timber business in Arizona. Will enlists the help of two young men from Oregon to help fight the outlaws. Some ranchers join Will to fight India and his gang of cutthroats. Sam Blaze, The Lazarus Man, arrives from Springerville to help win the battle.Will sets thing right in Show Low and then rides the trail once again in search of the Blackman Gang.

Will Cannon is on the way to Springerville, Arizona to buy some stock when he catches some dirty Regulators lynching a young cowboy. Will manages to save the young cowboys life, but the Regulators think the cowboy is dead. Will devises a plan to make the young cowboy The Lazarus Man and have him attack the outlaws while Will gathers a group of ranchers and cowboys to fight the outlaws.

An attack by a dirty bushwhacker causes Will Cannon to have Amnesia. Two young women find him and take him to their farm house but Will has to find out why the outlaws are attacking him. Will struggles to find out his identity and the reason he came to Magdalena, New Mexico. Will enlists the help of some ranchers and cowboys and one old prospector that loves to blow things up with dynamite and works to bring the outlaw gang to justice.

The strip of land on the northern Arizona border is known as No Man's Land or the Outlaw Strip. No state wants to claim title to this land because the town of Compton and the nearby land is a lawless hell hole that is occupied by ruthless cutthroats and murders. However, there are some good people in Compton, and some young bronc busters work taming wild broncs in the mountains near No Man's Land. Will and Joe Cannon need to buy the horses from the bronc busters, so Will rides the trail alone to No Man's Land.

Will and his brother, Joe Cannon, each receive a letter containing only a 45-caliber bullet and scratched on the brass of the bullet are the words "A Bullet for Billy". Neither Will nor Joe know the meaning of this cryptic message but they do plan to find out. No one in Santa Fe knows the meaning of this message except Bill, and the man trying to kill Billy.

Will Cannon rides to Concho Creek, Colorado, to buy some broncs, but he finds a gang of outlaws trying to take over this small town. The outlaws are going to dam up the creek and force the other farmers and ranchers to sell their property. Will makes friends with a beautiful woman and the three bronc busters help Will fight the outlaws.

Will Cannon receives a telegram from Texas Ranger Tex Bodine that describes a murder that is going to take place in Santa Fe. The Murder for Hire Gang killed one old miner in Santa Fe and now they plan to kill another miner to keep him from testifying in court. An Indian named Grey Dog is a member of the Blackman Gang. Blackman and his gang of murderous cutthroats killed Will's family in Virginia many years ago.

Will Cannon took care of the outlaws in Chama, New Mexico, and established his businesses there, but now the Wolf Creek Pass gang is robbing and killing innocent folks in the small silver mining camp of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Will rides to Pagosa Springs to bring justice to the folks the outlaws harmed.

Will Cannon leaves the derailed train to seek help for the stranded passengers, and he rides through a blizzard to the small town of Spirit, Arizona. Spirit is a very unfriendly town, and he meets a beautiful woman who is in serious trouble. Will has to fight outlaws and Mexican bandits to save the woman's gold mine. Will and the woman ride over several high mountain peaks with the Mexican bandits on their trail. He enlists the help of two Arizona Rangers to rid the town of Spirit of the gang of murderous outlaws.

Stories of the West is a collection of short stories, mostly set in the old west, and each story has its own unique setting and characters. Some of the stories will tug at your heart strings, some will pose a mystery and others will provide action and adventure in an old west shootout manner. I love the story about HOPE and I hope you will too.