Ernest Haycox

The Stranger Ernest Haycox

An Evening's Entertainment Ernest Haycox was one of the most successful of American western fiction writers. This is another story of the West as it always was, stark, savage and brutal. Born to Conquer Peter Skene takes what he wants and kills who he wants. Settlers, squatters, rustlers and Indian war parties can't stop him from owning the Bitter Valley and the biggest ranch in Oregon. Clouds on the Circle P A man is being goaded into renewing a feud in order to uphold his honor. The ultimate result is a gunfight, and the listener is in on all the action until the gun smoke clears. Scout Detail Lieutenant Parke Stobo was assigned to take twenty-five men, a guide, and three days' rations into the mesquites by way of Pete Kempel's ranch. Stobo was also instructed to give the greenhorn Lieutenant Wells a taste of the country. It should have been just a routine detail. . . The Code Weight of Command Several travelers risk death, and worse, to reach Lordsburg, Arizona. Among them - an English hunter, a whiskey drummer, a young woman known only as Henriette, an army officer's fiancée, a gambler and Malpais Bill, who's on his way to a gunfight. The stage route crosses hostile Apache territory - and they will be spotted. The Stranger Tonight the bullets will fly and rancher or rustler will die. A mystery man will decide whose blood will stain the sick streets of Star. Deep Horizons He grabbed a broken axe handle and circled around Matt Hobart. Rustlers are at work, hidden in the chill darkness of a prairie December. It's bad news for the Hobarts - losing their calf could mean starvation. Can Matt fight alone?