Back in his prime, Lin Garrett was a legend as a lawman. The story of how he captured outlaw Ollie Sinclair was a favorite in Arizona Territory. But Lin hung up his badge long ago and now spends his days at a county home for the aged. His days are peaceful--until he gets word Sinclair has formed a new gang and pulled off a daring train robbery. The local lawmen are at a loss, but Lin knows just how his old nemesis thinks. And he's out to prove no matter how many years have passed, he can still take down his man....

Five Star Western...

Weather and creaking joints permitting, Jim Hawkins could be found every weekend sitting in the rocker outside the Manix store, whittling and spitting. Jim said hardly anything. Ever. That's how Henry Lancaster felt. Sure, he'd hear his grandfather talk to his grandmother fairly often -- But Jim hardly said anything to anybody else. That all changed when he took Henry along on a scouting trip, and told his grandson how it was that winter of 1886 -- a really hard winter.

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Their names had become legendary: Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, Texas Jack Omohundro. None of them had any stage experience, but that didn't stop Cody from forming the Buffalo Bill Combination. All three would be appearing live on stage in a Wild West stage melodrama. Each of these three has his own story to tell of that exciting time, as they toured various cities in the East, and each tells his story in his own very distinctive narrative voice. Reviewers and audiences loved the performances, as is amply evident from reviews of the period, but Boggs takes you behind the scenes, privy to the hilarity but also occasionally the pathos of these legendary plainsmen as revealed in their own words....

In his younger days Ben Cameron had been a Texas Ranger and then a town-taming lawman. Riding into the dying mining town of Purgatoire, Cameron stops by The Texas House for a drink, but these days he always ends up blurry-eyed drunk. Amie Courtland works at The Texas House and is very interested in Cameron because she's heard that he was the last person to see her brother alive. When a series of murders begins in Purgatoire, many of the townspeople begin to look upon Cameron as a potential protector.

In addition to writing Western novels, Johnny D. Boggs has covered all aspects of the American West for newspapers and magazines on topics ranging from travel to book and movie reviews, to celebrity and historical profiles, to the apparel industry and environmental issues. He was born in South Carolina and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Lisa Smith, and son, Jack....