It was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed. The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down. But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling B's owner, had a better plan. Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had no use for the Texans themselves....

The job was to drive a herd of bullocks across Texas to New Mexico. For Dan Killoe, it is an opportunity to prove himself to his father. Dan is joined by Tap Henry, a top gunman. As the tale evolves Dan and Tap enter into a serious drama of guns, betrayal and honour.

Seven classic stories by Louis L'Amour.

When a young upstart who gunned down an unarmed man comes looking for Trent, his friends tell him to leave, but he stays to do what a man has to do.

Obsessed with revenging his parents' murder by outlaws, Val Trevallion travels to Virginia City where the world's largest silver strike is likely to attract the killers he is searching for. It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders, the vultures -- they were lured by the glittering promise of instant...