Orrin Sackett and his brothers find themselves in danger when they search for gold on a trail made by their missing father twenty years earlier.

As an orphaned child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry and raised to one day take over his empire of crime. Today that day has come. As Mike prepares for his first criminal job, a gold-train robbery, he must decide whether to follow the path set before him or carve out a destiny of his own.

Eighteen-year-old Bendigo Shafter arrives with a group of pioneers in a small Western settlement in Wyoming to begin a new life filled with struggle, adventure, and excitement.

He rode wild country with wilder men. Shalako 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.

Mike Bastian must decide whether he will take over his fathers gang or not, but he finds himself caught between jealous gang members, his growing love for an innocent girl, and the relentless pursuit of two lawmen.

Follows the adventures of members of the Sackett family in the frontier West.

"Chick Bowdrie could have been an outlaw, but he rode a different trail. The Texas Rangers recruited Bowdrie to help pursue the most wanted men in the Southwest. And Bowdrie knew the terrain all too well: the dusty trails, bitter cattle feuds, the desperate killers, and the weather-beaten towns that could explode into chaos at the wrong word. The Rangers were called in to handle the tough cases, and Bowdrie was the toughest and smartest. He had vowed...

Hopalong Cassidy rides into a mystery involving a bloody trail and $60,000 in stolen gold when he sets out to find the cold-blooded killers who murdered his friend Pete and stole the dead man's ranch.

Contains seven short stories and one novella about life in the Western frontier.