Newly married Texas Ranger Andy Pickard and his new partner, Logan Daggett, investigate a series of murders and cattle thefts in central Texas, a task complicated by a gang of masked vigilantes and the appearance of a notorious gunman.

When a wealthy cattle baroness hires Joe Buckhorn to track down her son, it sounds like easy money. But when he learns that the boy has run off with a girl--whose father is the leader of the cattle-rustling Riley clan--Buckhorn's only hope is to infiltrate the gang. Gain their trust. Live the outlaw life, even at the risk of death. There's just one problem: there's more than one gang. The Riley girl may have stolen a runaway boy's heart but the other...

"After the split with Wes Wilson at the end of Book One, Rawhide Jake works undercover at the huge Flying XC Ranch where he tracks down and arrests five rustlers. His reputation as a dangerous man grows throughout the region. On the spring roundup, the dust of the herd fills his nostrils, but he saves the life of the cow boss. Jake falls for a married woman and later, upon the death of her husband, marries her. He and Wes hook up again, take down...

"U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner sets off into Oklahoma Territory pursuing a bank robber unaware that notorious cattle rustler Jebediah Cotton has sent his five remaining sons and a cold-hearted brother-in-law after Tanner to avenge the death of Cotton's youngest son"--

Jeff Kennett and his drovers have brought a herd of 2,000 longhorns all the way from Texas to California, believing there is a fortune to be made by transporting the cattle by river boat to San Francisco. The Gold Rush is on and there is a tremendous demand for beef. Kennett has been referred to Captain Bill Ballinger, headquartered in Sacramento, as the man who can best pilot the cattle downriver. But Colonel Nathaniel Sharpe and his partner,...

She Wolf of the Rio Grande opens to a band of rustlers who have crossed the border to drive off a herd of cattle. In Two Queens of Skidway Empire, young Buzz Leary returns to British Columbia, where his father was once a titan among loggers. The business fell on hard times and peace may be impossible: even survival is questionable. Axel Colbon in Burned with the Coyote Brand is viewed that way because his wife, Tania, left him and married Walt Steckley...

When the U.S. government opened the Cherokee Strip to settlers of Oklahoma, the O'Dares lost their original claim, but stayed to build a thriving cattle spread through the shrewd, ruthless manipulations of Cord, the eldest. He was acknowledged head of the house, a magnetic power who molded the lives of others with a bland show of benevolence masking his scorn for the weakling he had created. Smoke, the youngest, sought to break this deadly grip at...

Neil MacGowan, owner of the K-B Ranch, sees good on each side of the struggle between the big cattlemen and the little fellows who sometimes put their branding irons on the wrong beef. He refuses to join the Cattlemen's Association when they bring in "cattle detectives" because juries won't bring a guilty verdict against their friends. Within two months, two rustlers have been killed with notes pinned to their chests reading "Cow Thieves Beware."...

"Detective Jonas V. Brighton and Detective Jennie Hudson work two cases. One ends up in controversy and the other makes national news as they solve the Doctor Perry Talbott case. Brighton is a marksman with pistol and rifle, a skill he gained from his Civil War experience. He gains a reputation as a man to avoid, and his partner, Wes, gives him the nickname "Rawhide Jake." The two of them roam the countryside, saving each other's lives more than once...