Gunsight Showdown: A Walt Slade Western


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A RACE WITH DEATH! The mighty bridge crossing the Rio Grande was to be the final step in the completion of the railroad and the taming of the West. But when Ranger Walt Slade saw the plans, he knew there was a sinister enemy at work -- for the bridge was being built deliberately so that it would collapse at the first flood! Tracking his hidden adversary, facing ambush, arson, and dynamite blasts, the undercover ace of the Texas Rangers fights through until he and his quarry come face to face in a Gunsight Showdown.




Doom Trail


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Gold Dust and Blood -- a trail that led Ranger Ace Walt Slade straight to the Cap Rock country and a gun-blazing showdown with the craftiest owlhoot in Texas.




Ranger Daring: A Walt Slade Western


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Walt Slade rides back to Echo, Texas -- the scene of a past showdown -- to find he must challenge a new and deadlier desperado gang!




Bullets for a Ranger: A Walt Slade Western


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Ghosts range -- fearsome figures in gleaming armor, spirits of the conquistadores -- are striking terror into the herdsmen of Texas' Matagorda Bay country.... But maybe, a skeptical Slade told himself, they're not ghosts -- just smart owlhoots wrapped in tin plate.... So the Ranger ace went "ghost"-hunting -- with hot lead and fighting fury! But Slade didn't know how close he himself would come to being made a ghost....




Killer's Doom: A Walt Slade Western


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The terse command cracked through Texas Ranger headquarters like a rifle shot -- and no one had to be told that the most dangerous assignment ever handed out was custom-made for the coolest lawman of them all, Walt Slade! For a hot, bloody week Slade haunted the trail of the vicious outlaw whose senseless cruelties shocked El Paso. One by one he whittled down Juan Covelo’s gang of killers, but always the black-hooded leader escaped his blazing irons. Now Slade knew that he was up against an outlaw every bit as fiendish and elusive as his arch-enemy Veck Sosna. When the Ranger ace fingered his guns and stepped into Coveto’s hillside hideout he was grimly prepared for a deadly duel in the dark that meant either his own death or a killer’s doom!




Gundown


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The street was deserted except for two shadowy figures--tall and menacing. The sun was high, and the hot, dry air held the secret of what was about to happen.... Walt Slade, ace Texas Ranger, walked toward the center of town. Suddenly the two willowy forms materialized, shouting, "Slade, you're gonna die!" The Ranger whirled... ...sunlight flashed on three guns--the street vibrating to the bellow of gunfire--and facing two of the deadliest rustlers in Texas border country Slade knew only one man would live to tell of the terrible time he was caught--in a GUNDOWN!




The Masked Riders: A Walt Slade Western


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The hooded Faceless Riders had spread a trail of terror and death along the Rio Grande. Striking where they were least expected, the outlaw band had thrown the whole territory into panic. And the toll from their guns was overflowing Boot Hill. As the ace undercover Ranger Walt Slade rode into the Border country, he knew that only one man could rod a gang so ruthlessly. And that man was Slade's bitter arch-enemy Veck Sosna, the cleverest, most notorious outlaw Slade had ever faced! Slade knew that the stakes were high. For if he didn't beat Sosna the whole Border country would crumble from law and order into the chaos of gun justice. And he knew, too, that if he lost this battle it would be his last. For there was another tombstone waiting in Boot Hill, marked with an S -- Slade or Sosna!




Gunsmoke Talk: A Walt Slade Western


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El Paso was ready for trouble, as Ranger undercover agent Walt Slade found when he rode in -- and was nearly gunned down by quick-triggered citizens, suspicious of any stranger. For a stranger might be one of the dreaded Starlight Riders, who raided and burned from their mysterious mountain hideout, threatening to destroy the Texan ranchers and farmers who refused to pay "protection money." In his role of the "outlaw" El Halcon, Slade prowled the Border Hills and the back streets of El Paso, hunting the Riders' brilliant mastermind -- and keeping his hands close to his guns, because when the Ranger and his quarry met it would be time for gunsmoke talk!




Hot Lead and Cold Nerve


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Ambush Trail: A Walt Slade Western


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One by one they faced him. One by one they died... Only four hours after Walt Slade landed in Los Angeles, he was locked in a desperate life-and-death struggle with the gang of killers he had trailed over a thousand miles. One by one they faced him. One by one they died -- until at last he was up against the vicious, deadly remnants whose orders from their leader were -- “KILL SLADE -- ANY WAY YOU CAN!"