Zane Grey

"Four western stories about a wild mustang, an old prospector and his burro, a reformed outlaw, and an Eastern schoolteacher's introduction to the West"--

When Brazos Keene, a haunted cowboy with an honorable streak, comes across Twin Sombreros Ranch, he finds himself dragged into a vicious family feud. A convenient fall guy, Brazos is accused of the murder of Allen Neece, son of Abe Neece. The Neeces are the former owners of Twin Sombreros, but they lost it to the Surface family when their $50,000 herd of cattle mysteriously disappeared, turning the once proud Abe into a broken man as he and his twin...

Greenhorn Ernest Selby inherits a cattle ranch in Arizona. Someone has been rustling cattle there. So Selby gets himself an alias and signs on as a ranch hand to see what he can find out.

Deputy marshal Russ Sittell is assigned to help Texas Ranger Vaughn Steele in taming Pecos County, Texas.

Ben Ide is a failure in the horse trade because he loves horses more than money. A few bad deals have turned the world against him. His greatest adversary is his father, who thinks Ben good for nothing. Determined to show what he is made of and what he can do, Ben pursues a herd of wild horses. The herd leads him directly into danger: cattle thieves with connections in high places. Distrusted by the woman he loves, menaced by killers, and hounded...

The historic Don Carlos Rancho stood at the gateway of the pass through which the Old Santa Fe Trail wound off to the Great Plains. Col. Ripple had married the glamorous Spanish daughter of the proprietor. As the years went by, their beautiful daughter, Holly Ripple, grew up, sheltered far away in a boarding school in the East. At her father's death, Holly was plunged onto the throne of this cattle empire, a bewildered girl who knew nothing about...

After Logan Huett homesteaded in central Arizona, he wired back to Lucinda Baker, the woman he courted back in Missouri, proposing marriage and she accepted. But the crude pioneer life proves very hard for her.

While workers build the Union Pacific Railway in the 1860s, the United States Army fights the Native Americans. It is enough to make any man accept failure, except that Neale has a special reason to continue the struggle: his love for Allie Lee.