Wayne D. Overholser

Small ranchers in Harmony, Oregon, are up against it with the price of cattle down and Skull Ranch, owned by a syndicate, trying to buy them out. When the editor of The Clarion is shot, the ranchers blame Black Mike Sand....

In the title story, Murdo Morgan left Paradise Valley 16 years ago, after his brothers had been killed at the hand of the Turkey Track outfit. One year later, his father died a broken and defeated man....

From Spur Award-winning novelist Wayne D. Overholser comes this collection of Western short stories....

A Western trio of renegades, outlaws and the Alaskan gold rush days of the 1890s....

The summer warpath began in late spring 1876 and was laid out under the command of General George Crook....

Sam Cassidy comes home to find himself in a series of tense confrontations....

The volatile and dangerous Wild Bill Murphy has come to town with a group of settlers who have hired him to represent their interests....

Neal Clark ramrod of the Circle C Ranch was in Cascade City to see the gunsmith when the Shelly gang attempted to hold up the bank....

Central Oregon is the last frontier, with transportation still by stagecoach and freight wagon. Now there's a movement afoot for a people's railroad....

Old Mike Varney is a callous, bad-tempered ranch owner of the Pitchfork Ranch, located near the Nevada Mesa during the second half of the 19th century....

Wayne D. Overholser, winner of three Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, weaves a magic spell in this story with his consistent skill in presenting vibrant characters and his uncommon sensitivity to the depths of human personality....