Stephen Overholser

Bobby Eckstrum is known around the town of Columbia as a drunk. In a surprising turn of events, he is thought to have murdered and robbed Roger Simms, a local rancher. A posse is organized and they hunt down and kill the man they believe to be Bobby. Destiny Eckstrum, Bobby's daughter, does not believe they killed her her father, but rather his equally shiftless brother who lives elsewhere in Colorado. When no one believes her, she decides to set...

Gideon Coppersmith can't find a missing ranchhand and pony before a mob lynches him. Now someone has come to take vengence.

Aaron Mills had loved Sadie Anne for as long he could remember. But fate always kept them apart, and even Sadie Anne herself said they must part forever. The night she ran away, the murders began. Aaron knows he's the only one who can clear her name. But that won't be easy in a seething frontier town full of barely tamed men. It's a place people go when they don't want to be found, a place where the law has no hold...

1865--the year that Confederate war hero General John Fox, still in uniform and making no attempt to cover his well-known face, rode into Richmond and robbed the Atlantic Bank and Trust. Then, fleeing South and leaving his wife and infant son behind, the "Fox" became of the West's most notorious and feared outlaws. But behind the cryptic accounts of these events lies a bizarre and puzzling story-- a mystery whose tale is told here in this action-packed...

Parishoners find a diary in their church cornerstone that chronicles the travels of a woman and her family as they travelled westward in a wagon train during 1860.

Clay Scarborough, foreman of the Circle R Ranch is beset by troubles. There are rustlers in the area. Gold has been discovered and the countryside is being overrun by miners and tent cities. And both the ranch and his heart have been turned upside down by the arrival of Annie, a relative of his boss.

"Twelve traditional Western stories set in Oregon and Colorado about lawmen, gunfighters, cattlemen, sheepmen, businessmen, lawyers, teachers, stubborn old men and independent women"--