"Speedy had become deptuy sheriff of lawless Sunday Slough so he could settle a score with the men who had robbed his friend Piers Morgan. Gambler Sid Levine had stolen Morgan's rich claim; Sheriff Buck Masters had shot the miner and left him for dead. Now Speedy, a troublemaker, was also marked for murder. The slight young drifter, who carried a guitar instead of a gun, looked like easy prey for his ruthless enemies, but somehow he was as strangely...

"Robert Fernald didn't look dangerous. Small and soft spoken, anyone would take him for a harmless kid. It was generally too late for his enemies when they found out about his deadly accuracy with a gun, or that his heroes were the legendary desperados of the past, that he regarded their feats as models to be copied. His first confrontation came when he trustfully accepted Pedrillo Oñate's lie that gunmen had robbed him of his blackjack winnings....

Handsome, reckless Lew Melody, gunfighter and gambler, falls in love with the belle of the range, Sandy Furnival, but his marriage plans are wrecked when he guns down a hired killer.

"The Lonely Law was Jim Larribee, Sheriff of Pinnacle County. Larribee had been befriended in many ways and had finally been helped to his office by Big Dan Sharples, and rumor had it that Big Dan owned Larribee from ears to hocks, and the star with him. But Larribee felt different. He knew that the star built a wall around a man -- that he was in a damned lonely corner. But the middle of the road was where he would stay, playing no favorites, and...