The Sundown Chaser


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From the winner of the 2007 Spur Award for Best Paperback Original for The Horse Creek Incident, comes a story of a man who stood up for the law--and the criminal that made him the man he is… As the new sheriff of Yellowstone County, Montana, ex-rancher Herschel Baker cleaned up the badlands with the weight of the law behind him—and the weight of a six-gun at his side. Now, he’s trying to solve a deadly puzzle that involves one lead-laden corpse, a large sum of missing cash, and a loose end that points to cattle rustling. But his trouble hasn't even arrived yet. There's a hard-as-nails, border-hopping horse-thief riding up from Mexico. He's bringing a woman on the run, a body count of criminals he's killed for bounty, and a gun hand as hard and quick as Herschel's. Because this man is no simple robber, shootist, or brigand for hire. His name is Thurman Baker. But Herschel calls him father…




The Sundown Chaser


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Herschel Baker, the new sheriff of Yellowstone County, Montana, must solve a dangerous mystery involving one lead-laden corpse, a large sum of missing cash, and a cattle rustler, which leads him to Thurman Baker, a robber, shootist, brigand for hire--and Herschel's father. Original.







Deuces Wild


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Spur Award-Winning Author, winner of the 2007 Spur Award for Best Original Paperback Novel for The Horse Creek Incident. When all the cards are wild, there are only three things to do: Lay ’em . . . play ’em . . . or slay . . . ’em. When the hardened Apache scout called Deuces is court-martialed for cold-blooded murder, he's sentenced to hang. But an appeal saves him from the noose—and he manages to escape on his way to prison in Texas. Relentless U.S. Marshal Burt Green is charged with finding the killer. Riding with a one-eyed Apache tracker, Burt hunts the elusive fugitive from Texas to the deep Southwest, where Deuces takes control of a band of renegade Apache and launches a reign of terror throughout the territory. Against an enemy as deadly as he is cunning, outgunned in the middle of a hellish land, Burt Green must face down Deuces in a war between the lawful and the lawless. A war from which only . one man can walk away. . . . “A master storyteller, Dusty Richards takes the reader on a fast horse through a wild piece of American history and never reins up.” —Cotton Smith, author of The Thirteenth Bullet




The Rattlesnake Season


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After rejoining the Texas Rangers as part of the Frontier Battalion, Josiah Wolfe must escort his old friend Charlie Langdon to trial. But the ride to the hangman?s noose isn?t going to be easy. And Wolfe?s killer instinct may be his only chance to see his son again.




Chaparral Range War


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From Dusty Richards, winner of the 2007 Spur Award for The Horse Creek Incident, comes a brand-new series about a former Texas Ranger out to enforce the law, no matter where he goes… When the Texas Legislature decided to stop paying its rangers, Phil Guthrey knew it was time to move on to greener pastures. As he rides into Arizona Territory, he finds a slew of criminals running free—thanks to Crook County’s no-good sheriff. With reports of rape, arson, theft, fatal shootouts, and foul play, Guthrey decides to make it his mission to rehabilitate Crook County, not to mention capture the heart of the spunky Cally Bridges. As Guthrey sets out to bring to justice the men terrorizing his new home, he knows he must ultimately find a way to uproot Sheriff Killion if he wants to clean up the county for good. The fight will be long and hard, but for a former Texas Ranger like Guthrey, getting your hands dirty is just part of the job…




Wulf's Tracks


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New in the Spur Award-winning Herschel Baker series When Sheriff Herschel Baker's young cousin, Wulf, turns out to be good with a gun, Baker pins a deputy badge on him. But once the lawmen track down a thief, Wulf finds that he has a score or two to settle back home.




The Lawless Land


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Spur Award-Winning Author, winner of the 2007 Spur Award for Best Original Paperback Novel for The Horse Creek Incident. "Dusty Richards writes with the flavor of the real West." —Elmer Kelton IN 1880, ARIZONA TERRITORY WAS AN OUTLAW'S PARADISE. The gunmen rode hard along the border, pillaging and murdering their way to plunder and wealth. Guided by a powerful landowner and his vicious outlaw captain, the Border Gang was organized, mean, and armed to the teeth. In Prescott, the governor knew Arizona's sheriffs couldn't stop the chaos—and statehood was in peril. Then a military man named Bowen stepped in with a plan: find a few good men, call them marshals, and send them after the Border Gang. THEN THE LAW STRUCK BACK WITH A MAN NAMED MAYES. Sam T. Mayes, a soldier turned Denver detective, is Bowen's first and only choice. Now Mayes—accompanied by an alcoholic army scout, a wanted man, and a fierce native woman—must ride against the cutthroat gang. Mayes' job is to put the kill­ers behind bars—or put them in the ground. His reward: the first-ever badge to be worn by a U.S. Territorial Marshal... "Gritty, fast-paced...a classic Western." —W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, authors of People of the Mist on The Lawless Land




Montana Revenge


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Spur Award - Winning Author Herschel Baker left his life as a rancher to become sheriff of Yellowstone County, Montana. Only weeks into the job, he's about to find out what it means to bring the law to a lawless land... It's up to Herschel to stop all forms of criminal­ity—including the old vigilante justice that once ran the town. When the cowboy Billy Hanks is found hanging from a tree with the label HOSS STEELER pinned to his chest, the culprits must be caught whether or not the accusation is true. With nothing to go on but a dead body, a mis­spelled note, and a wounded horse, Herschel re­fuses to look the other way. Someone's going to pay for this dirty deed. Someone found guilty by the right and proper letter of the law...




The Horse Creek Incident


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Winner of the Spur Award They had to fight for their land. But they needed someone to show them how… A QUESTION OF GREED Horse Creek, Montana, is under siege. A community of modest, family-run ranches, the town is a prime location for Rupart MacDavis’s ever-expanding cattle empire. With allies on both sides of the law working against the ranchers, MacDavis believes the water-rich land will be his in under a year’s time. AN ANSWER OF HOPE Now, Herschel Baker’s friend has been murdered in cold blood, leaving behind a widow and four children, and the sheriff refuses to investigate. Horse Creek’s residents know that the law belongs to men like MacDavis, and are too frightened to unite against the corruption and injustice that govern their lives. But Baker knows that if someone doesn’t take a stand, the next incident to befall Horse Creek may leave more than one body in its wake…