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"Medicine Ground" is a short story from L'Amour's hardcover, Valley of the Sun, - previously unavailable anywhere!

Folks far and wide know that the Cactus Kid can handle a pistol with the best of them. But for all his skill and coolness under fire, there's jut one small weakness he can't seem to overcome - and it may prove the death of him.

"Man Riding West": Jim Gary had always tried to avoid trouble, but after he is forced to kill a Mexican gunman in a cantina showdown, trouble seems to seek him out. "Grub Line Rider": Most folks would call Kim Sartain an easygoing, peace-loving man, but the few who crossed the young drifter know there is nothing he likes better than a good fight. "Down the Pogonop Trail": Jeff Kurland didn’t have a gun; he didn’t have a chance. The rancher knew that even as he scanned the cabin for a weapon, any weapon. He was trapped with a killer who had a pistol in his hand and a bounty on his head

Lawman, manhunter, peacemaker - it takes a hard breed of man to survive as a Texas Ranger, but Chick Bowdrie stands head and shoulders above the rest. The rough trails are his home. He's dried by the desert sun and wind, scarred and toughened by uncounted gun battles, and when you look into his black eyes it's like looking down the barrels of two .44s. He rides in the name of justice, but he lives by his own law. And if you're thinking about walking on the wrong side of Bowdrie’s Law, you'd better start running. Fast.

The gallows are going up in Canyon Gap and wild-spirited Leo Carver is going to swing. A known troublemaker without an alibi, Leo certainly had motives for holding up the stage and killing two men, yet he still proclaims his innocence. There's a lot of folks who want to believe him, because although Leo Carver is a hard-living, free-spending maverick, he is the kind of man the West needs.

Texas ranger Chick Bowdrie is sent to Kimble, Texas to investigate a bank robbery in which the banker was tortured and killed, and in which the thieves vanished without leaving tracks.

Bin Morley, the nester, tracks a dangerous man along a trail of crime to a violent confrontation for a surprising reason.

Wetherton discovers a rich vein of gold ore, but every rock he removes increases the chance that the unstable tower of rock will collapse on him.

While Ranger Chick Bowdrie is at a town dance, $12,000 is stolen from the stage station and the owner of the money is killed.

Jim Morton joins a posse that is hunting his friend Nat Bodine who is accused of robbing a stage and shooting the sheriff.

Chat Lock is trailed to his ranch by a posse who suspect him of shooting a man in the back in a barroom gun fight.

Chick Bowdrie befriends the son and daughter of a man accused of poisoning a neighbor's horse and acts as the man's defense counsel.

The Sandy Kid, a ranch cowhand, discovers a rock containing gold and a murdered miner while rounding up stray steers.

Dusty Barron discovers a teenage girl and a boy traveling in the desert in a covered wagon whose father has died.

Shad Marone is hunted across the desert by a posse and vengeful sheriff who falsely accuse him of murder and intend to kill him without a trial.

Jim London, heading home to New Mexico after the Civil War, finds a girl, the lone survivor of a Comanche massacre.

Reb Farrell is accused of rustling by his boss and fired after Reb appears to have shot his father by mistake while pursuing cattle rustlers.

Allen Ring wins a cabin in a poker game but a tally book he finds on the property threatens to ignite a range war.

Chick Bowdrie, Texas ranger, on the trail of a counterfeiter, investigates a case involving bank robbery and two murders.

Dan Regan, lion hunter for the Slash B, steps up to stop the looting and destruction of the ranch by a gang of cattle rustlers.