From pre-Civil War Virginia to the prairies of the far west, this epic follows young Lew Dorset as he journeys in search of his father. Lew's skill with firearms gets him a job as a hunter with a trader heading onto the prairies to barter with the Indians. There he meets young Chuck Morris, and together they take on a Cheyenne attack party. Finding shelter in a Sioux village, they absorb the native culture. Lew comes to know the great Sioux

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When Kiowa war chief, Santana, boasted that he had led a war party against a wagon train of freighters, he set the stage for his arrest. The war party had robbed, tortured and mutilated members of the wagon train, and now the Kiowa chiefs were to be tried in a Texas court. The case seemed open and shut, but attorney Joe Woolfolk made it clear that the U.S. would have to prove its charge without using Santanas boastful self-incrimination.

Zane Grey first presented this brilliant story of the West in a much shorter form as a magazine serial in 1914. Readers were thrilled and greeted it as another masterpiece from one of the West's greatest storytellers. The manuscript would suffer at the hands of Grey's book publishers, however. They took the second half of the story, deleted characters, changed the hero's name, and pasted it with the first half of another Grey manuscript to produce...

An anthology of westerns, written in the first half of the century. In The Roaring Hour, a marshall faces a crooked sheriff, The Hour of Fury is on a gold-mining camp, and in The Kid from River Red a young man holds up a stagecoach to prove his manhood. By the author of the story, Stage to Lordsburg, which was made into the film, "Stagecoach."

Arriving in Denver City, Colorado, at the start of the Civil War, Clee Farr finds the townspeople torn apart by loyalties to North and South.

Indian fighter Jesse Wilder is enrolled by a woman to find her son who was abducted by Indians. The novel describes their joint quest, in the course of which she saves the fighter's life and they find love