Chat Lock is trailed to his ranch by a posse who suspect him of shooting a man in the back in a barroom gun fight.

Billy Dunbar is discovered and attacked by a band of Apaches while prospecting for gold with his two burros.

Ranger Chick Bowdrie trails a killer and bank robber to a lawless New Mexico town where Bowdrie takes the job of marshal to aid his investigation.

Dan Regan, lion hunter for the Slash B, steps up to stop the looting and destruction of the ranch by a gang of cattle rustlers.

Chick Bowdrie befriends the son and daughter of a man accused of poisoning a neighbor's horse and acts as the man's defense counsel.

A traumatic event has turned Rock Casady, a great ranch hand, into a miserable man, haunted with fear.

Kim Sartain is threatened while riding across a lush, unused meadow and decides to homestead the property and set up a ranching operation.

Jim London, heading home to New Mexico after the Civil War, finds a girl, the lone survivor of a Comanche massacre.

While Ranger Chick Bowdrie is at a town dance, $12,000 is stolen from the stage station and the owner of the money is killed.

Dusty Barron discovers a teenage girl and a boy traveling in the desert in a covered wagon whose father has died.

For the westerner trouble came with the territory. Long grass valleys, merciless deserts, sheer rock cliffs, icy streams, hidden trails, dusty towns: These were the proving grounds of daily life. At any time violence could explode and on the frontier there was no avoiding its sudden terrible impact. In this collection of his stories Louis L’Amour guides us to some of these untamed places where men and women faced the challenge of survival. And for the first time, L’Amour also presents a selection of riveting scenes from western history that are every bit as exciting as his stories.

Johnny O'Day shows up half dead at the Redlin's ranch, is nursed back to health, and given a job. The Redlin's son, Sam, falls in with bad company who plan to rob him.

Jim Morton joins a posse that is hunting his friend Nat Bodine who is accused of robbing a stage and shooting the sheriff.

Texas ranger Chick Bowdrie is sent to Kimble, Texas to investigate a bank robbery in which the banker was tortured and killed, and in which the thieves vanished without leaving tracks.

Bin Morley, the nester, tracks a dangerous man along a trail of crime to a violent confrontation for a surprising reason.