A BROTHER'S VENGEANCE
When Owen Chantry returned to his brother's ranch for a visit, he found his brother had been savagely murdered and two dirt farmers - Ether and son - were now building a life on his land.  Chantry didn't mind the squatters much, but Mac Mowatt's gang was another matter.  Mowatt believed a fortune was buried somewhere on the Chantry place.  One man had died for it already, and Mowatt told Chantry and the squatters they'd he next.  That forced Chantry to make the only decision a brother could: to make the cold-blooded killers pay... or die trying.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now more than 225 million copies of his books in print around the world.

DESTINATION, DODGE CITY -
UNLESS THE UNSEEN KILLER STRUCK FIRST!

When Starbuck signed on for the cattle drive from Texas to Dodge, he hadn't counted on the mysterious bushwhacker following his trail with deadly motives.  And why?  Wasn't it hard luck enough with dry water-holes, treacherous storms, and savage raider gangs?  In Dodge City, Marshal Wyatt Earp himself was awaiting the drovers before playing his part in the desperate enterprise.  Would Starbuck and the others make it alive?

PASSAGE TO DODGE CITYShawn Starbuck series!

PICK UP A GUN, AND STAY

"I'm just passin' through," the rider said when they asked him his name.  And from then on, in the high country around Parrott City, he was called just that: Mr. Passin' Through, a man who rode a blue roan with a skull and crossbones brand and didn't know how to keep to himself.  And he wouldn't keep to himself.  Because something about a parched and dusty ranch appealed to him, and something about a woman's hair made him think of not being alone, and something about a scheme to grab the land away from its rightful owner made him want to stay and fight.  And so he stayed and fought.  Because liars, killers, and cheaters were coming after Passin' Through with murder in their eyes, and a gun had a way of making him feel at home.

PASSIN' THROUGH

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are more than 225 million copies of his books in print around the world.

ROUGH
ROAD TO MANHOOD
Young Kearney McRaven had already traveled some rough trails, but tracking his father's killer was a man-size task.  Especially since he himself was being hunted by mysteri-ous gunmen in long, black coats.  From the desert to the Spanish Peaks, they followed his every move until Kearney stopped running and started shooting.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
with the three stars playing the Sackett brothers in THE SACKETTS, a major NBC-TV drama.  L'Amour, with over 80 million copies of his books in print worldwide, is "the most prolific, bestselling and most highly rated Western writer in the country today."
- The New York Times

ONE MAN STAND

He was educated by life and bound to the land he loved.  Then beautiful Angelina Foley came up from Texas with three thousand head of cattle, an outfit of hardcase gunfighters, and an old Spanish grant to Radigan's land.  Radigan reasoned with them, stood up to them, and when they tried to drive him from his home he fought back, determined to make his enemies taste the bitterness of their greed, their stupidity... and their blood.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now more than 225 million copies of his books in print around the world.

From librivox.org:

The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but in The Rainbow Trail this theme is treated more explicitly. The plots of both books revolve around the victimization of women in the Mormon culture: events in Riders of the Purple Sage are centered on the struggle of a Mormon woman who sacrifices her wealth and social status to avoid becoming a junior wife of the head of a local church, while The Rainbow Trail contrasts the older Mormons with the rising generation of Mormon women who will not tolerate polygamy and Mormon men who do not seek it.

THE KILLING TRAIL

Astride his gelding, Deputy Ben Houston made a solitary silhouette riding the stark plains of Kansas.  Ahead of him in the vast country rode a gang of murderous outlaws who had slashed their savage way from Montana to Wyoming to Colorado, and now they were shooting up Kansas.  Where would the killers strike next?

Soon they would have to make a slip-up, and Ben had to be there, anticipating their every move, in order to stop them....

RAY HOGAN was born in Missouri but has spent most of his life in New Mexico.  His father was an early Western marshal and lawman, and Hogan himself has spent a lifetime researching the West.  He has written over 100 books, including DEAD GUN, THE GLORY TRAIL, OVERKILL AT SADDLE ROCK, THE PEACE KEEPER, THE SHOTGUNNER, and 24 titles in the bestselling Shawn Starbuck series, all available in Signet paperback.  His work has been filmed, televised, and translated into six languages.

RIDE THE
DARK TRAIL
Logan Sackett had run the wild trails since near to when he was born... picked up a few horses here and yon and some cattle too... rode the back trails with the bunch... he'd been around.  But he'd never bothered womenfolk and he got mighty angry with those who did - especially when the victim was an untamable lady named Emily Talon - horn a Sackett!

LOUIS
L'AMOUR
The
SACKETTS
They are the unforgettable pioneer family created by master storyteller Louis L'Amour to bring to vivid life the spirit and adventure of the American frontier.  The Sacketts, men and women who challenged the untamed wilderness with their dreams and their courage.  From generation to generation they pushed ever westward with a restless, wandering urge, a kinship with the free, wild places, and a fierce independence.  The Sacketts always stood tall, and true to their strong family pride, they would unite to take on any and all challenges, no matter how overwhelming the odds.  Each Sackett novel is a complete, exciting historical adventure, and read as a group, Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts form an epic story of the building of our mighty nation, a saga cherished by millions of readers around the world for more than a quarter century.

RIDE THE RIVER
No matter that Echo Sackett was young, and a woman, and had never been far from the valley.  She was still a Sackett - sharp and smart and a better hunter than most of the men she knew.  Like her bold ancestors, Echo couldn't ignore a challenge.  A sure hand with a horse, a dead shot with a rifle, and fast with her wits, Echo traveled to the mountains of Tennessee, coming up against ruthless killers who'd stop at nothing to cheat her of her inheritance.  There she'd prove once and for all that she could ride the river with the best.

LOUIS
L'AMOUR
The
SACKETTS

They are the unforgettable pioneer family created by master storyteller Louis L'Amour to bring to vivid life the spirit and adventure of the American frontier.  The Sacketts, men and women who challenged the untamed wilderness with their dreams and their courage.  From generation to generation they pushed ever westward with a restless, wandering urge, a kinship with the free, wild places and a fierce independence.  The Sacketts always stood tall and, true to their strong family pride, they would unite to take on any and all challenges, no matter how overwhelming the odds.  Each Sackett novel is a complete, exciting historical adventure, and read as a group, Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts form an epic story of the building of our mighty nation, a saga cherished by millions of readers around the world for more than a quarter century.

A WORD FROM
LOUIS L'AMOUR

"Almost four decades ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in 'pulp' western magazines, I wrote a number of novel-length stories, known back then as 'magazine novels.'  In creating them, I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared went out of print.  Proud as I was of how I presented the characters and their adventures in the pages of the magazines, I wanted to tell the reader more about my people and why they did what they did.  So, over the years, I revised and expanded these magazine works into novels that I published as full-length paperbacks under different titles.

"These particular early magazine versions of my books have long been a source of considerable speculation and curiosity among many of my readers, so much so of late, that now I've decided to bring four of my 'magazine novels' back into print in this latest volume of my short fiction."

"I hope you enjoy them."

THE RIDER OF THE RUBY HILLS CONTAINS
• "Showdown Trail," the original version of the novel
THE TALL STRANGER
• "A Man Called Trent," the first telling of
THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY WAR
• "The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon," which became
SON OF A WANTED MAN
• "The Rider of the Ruby Hills," which was expanded to
WHERE THE LONG GRASS BLOWS

LASSITER WAS A GUNMAN WITH A FEARSOME REPUTATION
- AND A MIGHTY VENGEANCE TO FULFILL.

Jane Withersteen was the richest woman in Cottonwoods, a peaceful Mormon village on the Utah frontier.  But now her fortune was in danger, for the churchmen wanted her to marry grim, arrogant Elder Tull.  Then they would control Amber Spring, the precious water that gave verdure to the wild purple wasteland.

When their methods of persuasion turned ugly, Jane was near despair.  But then Lassiter rode into town and strapped on his famous guns - to teach the angry mob a lesson about freedom!

LOUIS L'AMOUR
AMERICA'S STORYTELLER

Dear Reader,

I've taken great pride over the years in personally selecting and editing collections of my short stories for my publisher, Bantam Books, to issue in paperback.  Now, without my permission, a publisher, with whom I am in no way associated, is attempting to sell a book with this same title containing some of my stories that appear in this collection.  I am outraged by their completely unauthorized edition of my stories, and I have put together this collection so my fans will not be shortchanged.

The only authorized edition of Riding for the Brand is this one, published by Bantam.  Not only are there more of my personally chosen stories in this authorized edition than in any unauthorized version with this title, but, as with Bowdrie's Law, Buckskin Run, and my six other Bantam books of short stories, I've also added new introductory notes of interest and written a special foreword that puts this work in personal and historical perspective.

BANTAM BOOKS IS THE ONLY PUBLISHER AUTHORIZED TO ISSUE MY SHORT STORIES IN BOOK FORM.  ONLY ACCEPT MY SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS PUBLISHED BY BANTAM.

I am confident that my loyal fans will want to read only the authorized Bantam editions of my stories.

Sincerely,

Louis L'Amour

HOPALONG CASSIDY RIDES AGAIN!

In this first of four classic frontier novels, Louis L'Amour adds his own special brand to the life and adventures of one of America's favorite fictional cowboys, Hopalong Cassidy.  In The Rustlers of West Fork, the quick-thinking, fast-shooting cowpuncher heads west to deliver a fortune in bank notes to his old friend, Dick Jordan.  When he arrives at the Circle J, he discovers that the rancher and his daughter, Pam, are being held prisoner by a desperate band of outlaws led by the ruthless Avery Sparr and his partner Arnold Soper.

Even if Hopalong Cassidy can free Jordan and Pam, he will have to lead them across rough and untamed Apache country, stalked by the outlaws who have vowed to gun him down.  But Hopalong is no stranger to trouble, and before his guns - or his temper - cool, he's determined to round up Span and his gang and bring the outlaws to justice... dead or alive!  This classic tale of pursuit and survival is vintage L'Amour and adds new life and luster to the legend of Hopalong Cassidy.

LOUIS L'AMOUR, America's favorite storyteller, has thrilled a nation by bringing to life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier. There are now more than 225 million of his books in print around the world.

"I'M TELL SACKETT!"

"Oldest brother to Orrin Sackett, he lawmaker, and Tye Sackett, the Mora gunfighter...  I had to kill a man in Texas so I've drifted.  Came upon a vein of pure gold in high, lonesome country.  All I wanted was enough to buy me a ranch... but gold has ways of its own with men!"

SACKETT
One of the 14 books in the magnificaent Sackett series.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 110 million of his books in print around the world.

THE SACKETT BRAND
Forty gunslingers from the Lazy A have got Tell Sackett corned under the Mogollon Rim.  They're fixing to hang him if they can capture him alive, fill him extra full of lead f they can't.  But the Sacketts don't cotton to that kind of treatment.  Hunt one Sackett and you hunt them all.  So they're riding in from all over - mountain Sacketts, outlaws, cattlemen, bankers and the rest.  They'll fight with Tell on this one - if they can get there before Tell kills all forty hardcases himself.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
The Sacketts
They are the unforgettable pioneer family created by master storyteller Louis L'Amour to bring to vivid life the the spirit and adventure of the American frontier.  The Sacketts, men and women who challenged the untamed wildness with their dreams and their courage.  From generation to generation they pushed ever westward with a restless, wandering urge, a kinship with the free, wild places and a fierce independence.  The Sacketts always stodd tall and, true to their string family pride, they would unite to take on any and all challenges, no matter how overwhelming the odds.  Each Sackett novel is a complete, exciting historical adventure, and read as a group, Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts form an epic story of the building of our mighty nation, a saga cherished by millions of readers around the world for more than a quarter century.

SACKETT'S
LAND
Son of a feared fighting man, Barnabas Sackett inherited his father's fiery temper, sense of justice and warrior skills  Declared an outlaw in his native England Barnahas set his daring sights on the opportunities of the New World.  The ruthless piracy of the open seas and the unknown dangers of the savage American wilderness lay before him.  And so did the thrill of discovery an the chance to establish a bold new future if he survived.

LOUIS
L'AMOUR
The
SACKETTS


They are the unforgettable pioneer family created by master storyteller Louis L'Amour to bring to vivid life the spirit and adventure of the American frontier.  The Sacketts, men and women who challenged the untamed wilderness with their dreams and their courage.  From generation to generation they pushed ever westward with a restless, wandering urge, a kinship with the free, wild places and a fierce independence.  The Sacketts always stood tall and, true to their strong family pride, they would unite to take on any and all challenges, no matter how overwhelming the odds.  Each Sackett novel is a complete, exciting historical adventure, and read as a group, Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts form an epic story of the building of our mighty nation, a saga cherished by millions of readers around the world for more than a quarter century.

LONE MAN

He rode wild country with wilder men.  He was a loner who owned nothing but his horse and saddle - and his guns.  He was a man willing to gamble his life to get the woman he wanted...  He was Shalako.

SHALAKO

LOUIS L'AMOUR

Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 140 million of his books in print around the world.

I found the old man as he lay dying in a niche of rock near the spring, his body riddled with bullets.  His eyes rested on mine as I went down on my knees beside him.  "You," he gasped.  "I leave all I have to you, Matt Brennan.  Never to sell - never to give up!"  So I had been given a ranch, but I had lost a friend.  For the first time in my life I really wanted to kill, wanted it so much that my hands shook...

SILVER CANYON

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 100 million of his books in print around the world.

SITKA

Majestically it rose from the icy waters, the gateway to the awesome wilderness of Alaska.  Even as he grew up hunting the dangerous swampland of the Susquehanna, Jean LaBarge felt drawn by the strength and beauty of that distant land.  Now a battle-hardened adventurer, Jean boldly faces the dangers of Russian-owned Sitka.  Those Russians who will violently protect their foothold on the continent move swiftly to destroy Jean - just as they have threatened Helena, the woman who challenged their treachery, the woman Jean desires.  Fired by Helena's courage and by the call of his country, Jean is ready for a fight - to win Alaska for America.

LOUIS L'AMOUR

Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 160 million of his books in print around the world.

The Sackett boys weren't out to make a reputation - it just happened that way.  They had crossed Black Fletchen and lived to tell about it.  Now Fletchen was coming for them with the most expensive hired guns in the country.  But the Sacketts were no strangers to trouble.  They knew what guns were and how to use them, and one thing was sure - when the showdown came, the Sacketts would be ready, and someone was going to die.

THE SKY-LINERS
One of the 16 books in the magnificent Sackett series

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authenric West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 120 million of his books in print around the world.

LOUIS
L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 140 million copies of his books in print around the world.

SON OF
A WANTED MAN
Ben Curry knew it was a clog eat dog country and if you survived you had to have big teeth.  From a secret fortress in the wild, broken canyon country his men rode hard and smart as far as Canada and Mexico, from San Antone to Los Angeles to pull jobs that made the James gang look like pikers.  Curry's son, Mike, was raised to roam free.  While he learned all the deadly skills of the lawless breed he had yet to break the law.  Now it is time for Curry to retire and he has called in his untested son to take over his reins of control.  Caught between jealous gang members, his growing love for an innocent girl, and the relentless pursuit of two lawmen - Tyrel Sackett and Borden Chantry - Mike Bastian, son of a wanted man, must decide whether to follow the road to hell down his father's outlaw trail.

FRONTIER TOUGH
They came West to stay, risking their blood to dig the gold, ride the range, conquer the greedy and carve out a legacy of freedom.  Men honed by desert fires and edged by combat with fist and gun.  Women tested to the limit of endurance by an unrelenting land.  Now, in a long-awaited collection of his stories, Louis L'Amour tells of the real heroes of the frontier, the survivors, for whom hanging tough was as natural as drawing breath.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Now, with nearly 95 million copies of his books in print worldwide, he is the "bestselling and most highly rated Western writer in the country today."
- The New York Times

MARKED FOR DEATH

Taggart was riding like hell through the red heart of Apache country. A bounty hunter - the deadliest lawman in the West - was hot behind him.  Then Taggart met the girl.  She had a mule packtrain loaded with pure, raw gold, and the Apaches were on her trail.  Taggart could leave her for the Apaches and get away to safety, or he could stay.  He stayed....

LOUIS L'AMOUR

Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women that settled the American frontier.  There are now nearly 225 million of his books in print around the world.

Barney Sackett was on the run from the law.  The only trail open to him ran West.  With a few fierce friends and a loyal woman by his side, Barney carved a place for himself in the raw American wilderness - battling unyielding elements and savage Indians every inch of the way.  Then the day came when Barney found himself unexpectedly and desperately alone.

TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West.  L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 120 million of his books in print around the world.

THE SACKETTS SMELLED
GOLD... AND GUNS

How do you bring a million dollars in gold down a mountain?  First you have to find it, and that's mighty hard when you're tracking a trail that's twenty years old.  But the Sackett brothers were determined to find the treasure and their father.  They just hoped they were smarter than those New Orleans folks who also wanted the gold and were willing to kill for it!

LOUIS LAMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 100 million of his books in print around the world.

From amazon.com:

Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie as vital as she is innocent outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten men of the trail in a legend that will last through the ages.

Frontier
winter

1863-1864 - two hundred miles west of Fort Laramie stretching out into the vastness.  This was a country!  No wonder the Indians were prepared to fight for it.  Ferociously, with massacre and fire they swept down on yet another wagon train.  One wagon mysteriously escaped.  In it, the major's daughter, a dashing, hell-for-leather cavalry officer with renegade notions - and sixty thousand dollars in gold.  Ready for anything, they make their stand

Under the
Sweetwater Rim
A NEW ACTION WESTERN BY LOUIS L'AMOUR
A GREAT WRITER OF THE AMERICAN WEST

LEGEND OF
THE WEST

It's God's country, and the Devil's country. Where a hired killer cherishes a strange code of honor.  A young miner hauls dangerous freight - a fortune in gold and a beautiful woman - through treacherous territory.  The town drunk wakes up one day - with the town deserted.  Apaches bring a lone white woman a surprising gift.  It's the great American West.  Savage and sweet, two-fisted and big-hearted, like no other place on this earth.

LOUIS L'AMOUR

Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 140 million of his books in print around the world.

KIN SACKETT,
FRONTIERSMAN

The Sacketts walk tall in the untamed forests and wild mountain paths.  Strong men who seek peace in the savage wilderness.  That peace is challenged when rival Indian tribes threaten war, and ruthless white men, hoping to exploit the tensions, kidnap a settlers beautiful daughter.  Only Kin Sackett and his brother Vance dare to make the treacherous journey to rescue the girl from her captors.  For when there is a crisis on the frontier von can count r>n a Sackett for swift action.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now over 100 million of his books in print around the world.