Bradford Scott

Huck Brannon took top honors when it came to hard riding and fast shooting, but his dream was to have a ranch of his own. When Old Tom, a salty cowpoke, showed him a faded scrap that was alleged to be a map to a lost mine full of treasure, Huck just couldn't resist. This might be his only chance to have his dream come true. Instead of gold or silver, though, Huck found coal. Not exactly the riches he'd hoped for, but mighty valuable in its own right....

"Ghosts on the range -- fearsome figures in gleaming armor, spirits of the conquistadores, striking terror into the herdsmen of Texas' Matagorda Bay country . . . But maybe, Slade told himself, they're not ghosts, just smart owlhoots wrapped in tin plate. So the Ranger ace went "ghost"-hunting -- with hot lead and fighting fury! But Slade didn't know how close he himself would come to being made a ghost . . ."--

Once more Ranger Walt Slade, the hawk-faced scourge of evildoers, buys into trouble on the interests of justice. This time the slick-iron trail starts in the Texas Big Bend country -- where the colors are more vivid, the mountains higher, the men bigger than elsewhere, and the cattle in need of more acreage. When Slade met them, Curly Bill Elkins and his crew claimed to be pursuing rustlers of one of the region's far-flung herds. But the local sheriff,...

"In this action-packed western, Texas Ranger Walt Slade stops in San Antonio for a few days rest and finds himself the target of a protection syndicate when he interrupts an attack and ends up killing two of the outlaws"--

Jim Woodard's lungs were bursting! He was trapped ... hemmed in between the blazing canyon walls and the fire-crazed herd. There was only one possible escape - through 300 searing, suffocating yards to the canyon mouth. Could he reach it? Could he whip the panic-stricken cattle through the curtain of fire? Or was he doomed to perish in this hellish trap which the rustlers had set?