Download or read book Fast Guns out of Texas written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thing of interest Cray Dawson saw upon riding into Crabtown, Montana, on his way to stake his claim in Black’s Cut, was a sign outside the barber shop, with a long line of miners, townsfolk, business people and saddle tramps strung along the boardwalk waiting their turn to view Lawrence Shaw in his coffin. FAST LARRY SHAWL DEAD IN HIS COFFIN, 50 CENTS While He Lasts... (below it in pencil) *Preview of Ralph Cotton's Hangman's Choice and Killing Texas Bob at the back of this book.
Download or read book Fast Guns Out of Texas written by Ralph W. Cotton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Texanist written by David Courtney and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Ralph Compton Shadow of the Gun written by Joseph A. West and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lawless town lives in the shadow of fear in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series. Tam Elliot founded Eden Creek to be a utopia of peace and prosperity. The town achieved neither, and in despair Elliot took his own life. His daughter Allison rechristened the town Suicide, blaming its folks for its failure. From her hillside house, she collects property dues from the lost souls unfortunate enough to still reside there—and punishes anyone attempting to leave. John McBride came west to start a new life, only to find himself saddled with the moniker “Tenderfoot Kid” after a single gunfight. He purchased a restaurant in Suicide hoping to put his past behind him, but with marauding Apaches, vicious outlaws, and rising tensions between the townsfolk and Allison Elliot, the town is a powder keg waiting to explode—and McBride’s presence just may be enough to light the fuse… More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!
Download or read book Blood Lands written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She moved her sights over to the parson, then to Evans, then to Muller. They fit the description Reese had given her before he died. These were the ones; if by some fluke they weren’t her attackers, her father’s killers, too bad, she thought. If that was the case, they had simply picked the wrong day to come calling. Her sights homed onto Muller, the one farthest away, the one most likely to get atop his horse and make a run for it. She rested the sights there and waited, breathing slowly, calmly. Strange, she thought, how not long ago she had looked for the slightest reason not to kill these men, these men who had violated her, who had taken her father’s life, and in that sense destroyed hers. But that had changed. Now, if they fit the description, or matched the names, or came close to doing either, she wanted them dead. The killing had begun. The quicker they were dead, the sooner she could live in a home of her own—something she’d never had. And more than that, she could hold her head up and live there in peace, like regular, everyday folks—something she’d never known. A tear glistened in her eye, but there was no time to wipe it away. She wouldn’t let it affect her aim. *Preview of Ralph Cotton's Wolf Valley at the end of this book.
Download or read book The Search for Montana Red written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ranger Lives for the Hunt - The Outlaw Lives for the Killing - Now They Are About to Come Face to Face at Last. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack is a man of courage with a lightning-quick draw. His goal is swift justice, and his aim is as sure as death. With a .58 caliber rifle behind his saddle and a list of outlaws next to his heart, he tracks his prey relentlessly, alone, and to the bitter end. No one under the badlands sun would put the Ranger’s skills to the test like Montana Red Hollis, a man more brutal than any beast and more cunning than any desperado the Ranger has ever hunted. No one is safe from the wrath of Montana Red and, until the Ranger took up the search, no one was brave enough to stop him. Now, on the high badlands where the fastest gun rules and only the strongest survive, a bloodthirsty killer is about to meet his match. From master storyteller Ralph Cotton comes an extraordinary story about lawmen and the lawless—and of gun justice in the rugged American West.
Download or read book Bad Day at Willow Creek written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Shaw, aka Fast Larry, aka the Fastest Gun Alive, in this 4th book in the Gunman’s Reputation series, appears to have given up . . . but not just yet. First, he will take Rita Vargas to Willow Creek in search of William Bonney—the infamous Billy the Kid—who, unbeknownst to the Kid, is the father of her unborn child. On Shaw’s trail are gunmen hell-bent to leave him dead on the ground, not realizing that having people out to kill him might be the only thing that keeps “Fast Larry” alive. Lawrence Shaw had heard the thunder of horses’ hooves from the north trail long before the five riders slid the animals to a halt out front of the plank shack. He’d heard them stop suddenly, fifty yards away, and he’d pictured the riders sitting there discussing him in the pale purple darkness, deciding the best way to kill him. After a moment he’d heard the horses come forward again, this time slower, with stealth and deliberation. Oh, yes, they mean to kill me, Shaw told himself. . . . He did none of the things a man might do under such dire circumstances. Shaw had lost interest in such matters of life and death. They would arrive to kill him; but he would kill them instead. It was that simple. The matter deserved no deeper thought.
Download or read book Black Mesa written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turnbaugh gave a dark chuckle. ‘‘You lawdogs and your badges,’’ he said, ‘‘you’re worse than priests with their crosses.’’ He shook his head. ‘‘I never could understand why a little ornament like that makes such a difference to yas.’’ ‘‘I don’t expect you would,’’ said Sam. He paused, took a breath and gave another glance at either end of the bar. Here goes, he said to himself, hoping he’d given Maria enough time to get into position near the empty window frame to back him up. But there was no time to wonder about it now. ‘‘I’m taking you to Fort Smith, Turnbaugh,’’ he said. Turnbaugh gave another dark chuckle. ‘‘Are you now?’’ he said in a cocky tone, as if it were all a joke. ‘‘Care to hear some numbers on how many twobit lawmen like you has tried that same thing?’’ ‘‘The numbers don’t matter,’’ said Sam, barely shaking his head. ‘‘You’re going with me. Don’t make me kill you.’’ *Preview of Ralph Cotton's Sabio's Redemption at the end of this book.
Download or read book Season of the Wind written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Chicago hit man Ray Dylan started out he was one more young professional struggling to get ahead of the pack. But he knows his world is about to change quickly when he takes on a job for high-level KGB elitist Leonid (The Professor) Volkov, founder of a unique Cuban-Russian spy community operating out of Southern Florida. After Volkov double-crosses him and tries to have him killed, Dylan must take on the entire criminal spy operation even as a wild hurricane named Dennis ravages its way up the heart of the Florida peninsula. True to his calling, the young gunman will stop at nothing as he kills his way closer to Volkov, learning more and more about the man, including one of the best kept secrets in the dark underworld of crime and espionage—what was the wily Russian operative doing in Dallas the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. *Preview of Ralph Cotton's Friend of a Friend and While Angels Dance at the end of this book.
Download or read book Cost of a Killing written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a hail of thunder and gunfire, Jeston Nash fled a New Orleans billiards hall with a land deed in one hand, a blazing pistol in the other. He’d won his gamble with Quick Quintan Cordell fair and square. But in seconds, violence flared, Cordell lay dead, and Sheriff Pat Garrett’s promise still rang in Nash’s ears ... somewhere, someday, they would meet again... Jeston Nash learned about robbery from his cousin, Jesse James. But it was the wild outlaw Billy the Kid who taught him that even a wanted man is just a man. Nash catches up with the Kid in a dusty town of drunken bottle-shooters. Along with a scraggly band of gamblers and gunslingers, they ride for New Mexico, where, for Billy the Kid, freedom lies just beyond the border. For Nash, the enchanted land holds the chance to exchange his hard-won land deed for the beautiful and seductive Contessa Cortez. But their dreams turn to dust in the face of revolutionists, scalp hunters, and the deadliest threat of all—the determined Sheriff Pat Garrett, who plans to take Nash down with the Kid, all in the name of justice.
Download or read book Trick of the Trade written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeston Nash knew horses—he’s stolen enough of them in his time. But the lookalike cousin of Jesse James was going respectable, almost. Then, in a New Orleans teeming with drunks and blue uniforms, he sold a horse to a well-bred lady. It was the biggest mistake of his career .... He hit Fort Lincoln with a belly full of wounds and minus a boot. His horse had been stolen, and he’d stolen it back—along with some bootleg crackers. All in all, it hadn’t been a pleasant trip through the dreaded Black Hills. But at least Jeston Nash—for the time being calling himself Beatty—hadn’t drowned. Now he fully intended to fulfill a promise: to deliver an unridable horse called Honest Bob to a woman named Custer. The trouble was, the wife of General George Armstrong Custer, Elizabeth, wasn’t very interested in the horse she’d persuaded Nash to deliver. In fact, Mrs. Custer was on the warpath. So were the Sioux—and General Custer’s commanders in Washington. Suddenly, Nash finds himself in the middle of the most dangerous kind of fight: a marital squabble. Before he knows it he’s riding alongside a hardheaded, buffalo-hunting, blond-haired general who’s sure glory awaits them—at a place called Little Big Horn ....
Download or read book Killers of Man written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a chaotic blast of gunfire, the James Gang fled a posse’s attack and the infamous Jesse threw his cousin Jeston Nash a hoard of stolen cash. Hoping to lie low in the mountains of the Northwest, Jeston and his partner, Quiet Jack, find themselves on a journey into the dark heart of human nature—and deadly animal instinct Jeston Nash is used to dodging bullets, but when a hired thug’s rotten remark gets under his skin, he can’t let it go—and he makes himself an instant enemy aboard a snowbound train owned by the sleaze’s boss, Ben Larr. A rich son-of-a-gun hell-bent on getting the grizzly who robbed him of a leg, Larr is a fouler piece of work than the usual brand of lowlifes Nash comes up against. When Larr blackmails Nash into leading his hunt, Nash discovers the killers of man in Larr’s twisted domain—a netherworld filled with violence and drugs, obsession and revenge. Nash finds himself face-to-face with Laura, Larr’s gorgeous, murderously manipulative wife, and one savage grizzly, a man-killer straight from the jaws of hell .... In a tale sparked with his trademark wit and bull’s-eye historical detail, Ralph Cotton captures the essence of the Old West in the adventures of his extraordinary outlaw hero, Jeston Nash.
Download or read book The Trailsman 324 written by Jon Sharpe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When gold fever strikes, the Trailsman delivers a dose of lead. When Cain Parker struck gold, he won a whole mess of trouble. The attacks on his wagons got so bad that he called on his old friend Skye Fargo for help. Skye knows all the signs of a set-up, but not even he could have guessed Cain’s own son was in on it. The Trailsman remembers Daniel Parker as a little boy—but now he’s about to face him man to man...
Download or read book Devil s Due written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart thinks he has broken the back of the outlaw organization Los Pistoleros after he arrests its leader, J.T. Priest - the man who killed his father. But just before his trial, Priest escapes from jail, and he's determined to rebuild his criminal empire. Hart knows that if he's ever to put his father's ghost to rest, he must stop the outlaw once and for all. Only Quick Charlie Sims knows where Priest is planning to meet up with the rest of his gang. And Hart is none too sure he can trust the wily gambler, who has his own debt to settle with Los Pistoleros' leader -and his own interest in the organization . . .
Download or read book Blue Star Tattoo written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly: Misery Express When a fellow lawman falls ill, Sam Burrack—better known as the Ranger—agrees to take the reins of the territory’s infamous jail wagon. Driving straight across the territory, the Ranger must keep tabs on a motley group of prisoners, including the younger brother of JC McLawry, leader of the dreaded Blue Star Tattoo Gang. McLawry’s gang will stop at nothing to free one of their own. And riding among them is Lawrence Shaw, known as the fastest gun alive, whose isolated existence in the desert has affected his mind —but not his trigger finger . . . .
Download or read book Badlands written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man stands for justice and the law, the other stands for murder and mayhem. Both are about to reach a point of no return …. The ranger makes his living tracking down dangerous criminals who have long eluded the law. His goal is swift justice and his aim is certain death. But a midnight jailbreak that sets loose a cadre of killers and trigger-happy outlaws is about to put the ranger’s skills and sense of justice to a test. Ernesto Caslado, the Mexican-born desperado who is behind the jailbreak, leads the band of convicts deep into the harsh Badlands Frontier. He, too, is searching for justice—seeking out the true killer guilty of the murder that was about to send him to the gallows. Both lawman and killer are driven, and both are about to face off in a life or death challenge. Before the sun goes down, the Badlands will defy everything they know about honor, courage, and loyalty.
Download or read book Vengeance written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly: Vengeance is a Bullet Carl O’Bannion was a mere boy when his parents were mercilessly gunned down by a gang of former Union guerrillas led by Major Jamison “Wolf” Avrial. Now, after ten years of perfecting his skills as a gunslinger, O’Bannion is known far and wide as Carlos the Snake. Ranger Sam Burrack is hot on the trail of Carlos the Snake, who’s been hunting down Avrial’s men and leaving a trail of bodies across the frontier. Even though Burrack sympathizes with the desperado’s desire for revenge, killing is killing, and it’s his duty to uphold the law, no matter how just the cause….
