Here are nine rousing stories by one of the all-time great Western writers. In McQuestion Rides we meet Sheriff Matt McQuestion, whose eyes have dimmed and whose gun hand trembles but whose insights never fail him. Court Day tells about a maverick gunman who deliberately supplies the spark that ignites a showdown between the nesters and the cattle barons. Officer's Choice presents a hard-bitten manhunter who for the first time acts to temper justice...

Here are nine stories of the pioneer West and the men and women who rode its plains, tamed its forests, faced its dangers, and found love in the wilderness. One tell of a mother's love for her son; one of a bitter marriage; another of a warm and fumbling frontier courtship; and still another of a passion as deep as the wilderness in which it was conceived. From the very first page, where you meet the Mercy family building their homestead in the Oregon...