Short Westerns

Tonight the bullets will fly and rancher or rustler will die. A mystery man will decide whose blood will stain the sick streets of Star.

A demon coyote that's too fast to shoot and too smart to poison is closing in. Will the Wolf Hunter survive?

When a mysterious man on a white horse robs a series of stagecoaches on their way from the little town of Appleton to the Concord railroad station, everyone in town suspects a young and enigmatic man named Slim Malone. The newly elected mayor decides to bring in outside help, a deadly gunfighter named Lefty Cornwall.

Sometimes a lost gold mine offers up more than just gold. And sometimes a secret should remain a secret. A generational science fiction story from USA Today best-selling writer Dean Wesley Smith. A version of this story by Dean Wesley Smith first appeared in The Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus edited by Cynthia Sternau and Martin H. Greenberg.

Short in size, Two Bit Higgins beats up the much bigger Dandy Barker in a bar fight in an southern Arizona gold-mining town. He is then named a deputy sheriff, also showing how dangerous he is with a gun. Then Barker comes back for revenge. How long will it be before Barker and his gang come looking for Two Bit and the show down?

Nobody welcomed Will Evans when he retired from bounty hunting to start a farm until a vicious cattle baron decided to run off all the farmers.

Entrusted with the delivery of one hundred pounds of gold to his partners, Johnny Potter faces four days of hard riding alone in a land of robbers and treacherous terrain.

To Old Pete's owner, it had always seemed that Pete would be the first to go. At 30 years of age, it even appeared likely. Now Old Pete's owner is confined to a hospital bed, though, and Old Pete is still going strong. But there might be some way that they could get together again for a last ride, prospecting up a mountain, just the two of them, who would have been together for a longer time than most married folks.

One of the most popular settings for romance stories was the Old West, where men were men and women were women. As many a swooning damsel could attest, "There's something about a cowboy." The Western romance became one of the most popular types of magazines sold during the early and mid-20th century. By today's standards, these stories may be considered sweet and wholesome, but there's still a thrill to them, the excitement of action and love waiting along the next trail.

This is the story the led to the classic John Ford and John Wayne 1939 movie of the same name. Listen as a small group of travelers ride their way to their destination, trying to avoid the dangers of the trail, including the famous Geronimo!

Should Tommy Beckworth hang for Liji Evers death? Old Man Coffee and the biscuit shooter will trick the truth out of someone.

Ray Kindred is a fugitive. Most of Kindred's remembered life has involved ignoring danger or fleeing from it. When he jumps off the freight train on which he has been hiding to enter a town at night, he feels he is only ignoring danger, no longer fleeing it.

Emma looks down at the crowd from a hanging platform. Her father was framed, and she took the blame for the crime to save him from execution. Where is her beloved husband, Nate? She looks around and sees her husband on a horse, guns blazing. In a whirlwind rescue, she hops on the back of his horse, and they're off, realizing that they will spend the rest of their lives as outlaws.

A young cowboy joins up with two other would-be bank robbers. The robbery succeeds but in getting away but only the cowboy comes away alive, much richer but not in any way he or anyone else had first expected.

Entrancing Rubie tried all her lovable tricks to hold ranchman Guy spellbound - but all she did was smother his ardor. She had her hombre cut out of the herd - till Guy stampeded. One of the most popular settings for romance stories was the old west, where men were men and women were women. As many a swooning damsel could attest, "There's something about a cowboy." The western romance became one of the most popular types of magazines sold during the early and mid-twentieth century.

In the lawless expanse of the Wild West, Shadow of the Lawman follows the enigmatic Bass Reeves, a relentless and ambiguous lawman, as he confronts a ruthless gang of outlaws who descend upon the town of Pecan Ridge. With justice as his only guiding light, Reeves leaves a place forever changed, its secrets known only to him, as he continues his solitary quest through the unforgiving frontier.

When men start getting run over by slow-moving train cars in a gold rush town in the mountains of Idaho, Marshal Duster Kendal must solve the murders. But there might not be a motive besides the fact that Duster Kendal lives. Duster knows exactly what to do about that. And he needs to do it fast before things get much, much worse.

Rival rising music stars Skylar and Tony know the path to stardom never runs smoothly. Right now, they both need a seasonal hit to shoot to the top the charts. Enter Nashville record producer Jack P. Dylan, who has an idea, but will it be enough? Can these two polar opposites work together to create a winning combination, or will their differences block their way to success and true love?

Here is a tale that concerns the incredible power of friendship. The movie Tennessee's Partner (1955), starring John Payne and Ronald Reagan, was based on this story.

Marcus Wright was rich and successful. He had many lovers and submissives over the years. He could bend them to his will and over his knee. That was until a violent storm brought Rose into his world. Will he make her his submissive or will he twist her into something else?