Bennett Foster Knihy

Tramparas Range . . . Mean Country . . . Rustler Country . . . A country of dry canyons and stony mesas . . . A country that could hide whole herds of stolen cattle . . . and did!

AN UNLIKELY PAIR Bob Roberts fancies himself the town dandy. But any money Roberts has is from crooked gambling and petty cons. His latest scheme is to get his hands on an assayer's report about a possible strike in the area. If Roberts can make the claim first, he'll be rich! But he can't steal the letter in town, so he goes out to lie in wait along the mail route...in the middle of hostile Indian territory. Old Man Duggan describes himself as the bravest, fiercest enemy the Apaches have ever seen. But to the rest of Gila City, Duggan is nothing more than a drunkard whose glory days--if there were any--are long past. To prove his claims, he volunteers to deliver the mail across the dangerous ground, taking only a bottle for company. When bloodthirsty Apaches attack the mail run, Duggan and Roberts have no choice but to team up in a desperate fight for their lives.

Rifle Rock was tough, hard, and merciless -- it was a snarling lobo wolf of a town, tense, sullen, waiting for the lid to rip off . . . waiting for the bloody range feud that had to come. It sure was a tough town to tackle -- too tough for a crippled cowboy trying to come back. Too tough for Chet Miner. He tried it -- and got smashed. He was whipped, ready to quit -- but something happened. Something sparked off the fuse and suddenly Rifle Rock exploded. And with him in the middle!

Young Ray Verity took to the outlaw trail when his three brothers were killed by ranchers who believed the Verity boys guilty of cattle rustling. He swore vengeance on Miles Tenbow, whom he held responsible for the crime. From the hills near the range which had once been his Ray came down to pursue his enemy; but when it was within Ray's power to kill him, Ray saved Tenbow's life instead, then fled to save his own. Ray returned again and again, and each time he learned more of the circumstances that had caused his brothers' deaths and put a price on his own head.