"Hugh Collier in "The Danger Lover" feels he is living an empty life as little more than a competent bank employee in the town of Stanton. He decides to leave behind a life that for him was a "caricature and savage cartoon of the beautiful truth that life may be" and heads into the mountains alone, carrying only the essentials on his horse. Two things change course of his adventure: he sees a town from a hill, and a stranger, desperate to file on...

Winsor Glanvil and Louise Carney plan to be married in a sequestered valley by a local clergyman, but Jack Rutledge, a jealous rival, decides to prevent Glanvil from marrying any woman by disfiguring him permanently, destroying one side of his face with the cutting edge of a spur.

"A young man with a bad reputation and many aliases helps a rancher in his battle with a clan of rustlers"--

Prairie Pawn tells the story of Paul Torridon, called White Thunder by the Cheyenne Indians holding him hostage. They believe that he cured Whistling Elk's son from a menacing illness and brought rain when others had failed to do so. Though Paul has been rewarded with many riches, he still seems unhappy, and the Cheyenne chief decides to undertake a dangerous mission to kidnap Nancy Brett from Fort Kendry. The Cheyennes believe that will make White...

In Master and Man, Bobbie is a black man who can outride, outfight, and outshoot any white man in the mountain desert. His unwavering moral code serves as a model for his often cruel and dissolute white master. A Lucky Dog is a tale of desperate flight by a jewel thief named Hagger from the man he robbed. In Colorado, facing a battle with winter cold and snow, he comes upon an isolated cabin and its sole occupant, a weakened bull terrier left there...

"Two connected stories discovered among unpublished works by Frederick Faust are combined to create this western story about a young man whose fascination with tall tales told about a fictional hero causes him to make a decision that sends him down a path outside the law"--

"Three western stories where unlikely heroes struggle with their consciences and desires to discover where true values lie"--

The kid they called the Sleeper was a tramp. He was content with a life of drifting from place to place. But all that changed when he heard about a legendary gun with twenty notches -- a gun that never missed. Sleeper felt it -- he had to own that gun! What Sleeper didn't realize is that that the twenty-notch gun was a weapon that could never be owned. A gun like that would own him! The life he cherished would disappear, and Sleeper himself would...