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Meet John Crudder. A new kind of hero. He's not the biggest, fastest, meanest, or quickest. But he's smart and deadly. And he has a gut-level drive to see justice served. The most unlikely person to ever be called on to be the marshal of a Texas town, John Crudder finds out the town council is composed of thieves and murderers. The only way to stop them is to take to the shadows to fight them. If they find out who he is, they will hurt the people he loves. So this unassuming youngster from the East becomes the Midnight Marauder to clean up a town before the corrupt leaders destroy it.

A gang of Texas outlaws kidnap US Marshal Shorty Thompson, and is after his and Buffalo's Wyoming gold. Buffalo and his ranch foreman ride over 200 miles to get little Janice McCord and her .45 to bring Shorty back alive. The horseback ride from New Mexico to Wyoming is filled with gunfights and crooked town sheriffs. Though Janice starts out two weeks behind, she catches sight of the gang in northern Colorado. If not for her trackers Indian friends, they could have been ambushed several times.

Whiskers McPherson headed west to the Rocky Mountains. Set upon by road agents twice before getting to the Mississippi River, he realized he was a greenhorn and needed a rifle and pistol to survive. Heading west across Kansas, for the first time in his life, he found what real fear was. Indians kept him hunkered down in a buffalo wallow for days before cowboys rode up and saved his life. Instead of letting him ride on to certain death, the ranch these cowboys worked for would not let him go on west until he learned everything they knew about surviving.

President Hayes sent a message to US Marshal M D (Shorty) Thompson at old Fort Tularosa, New Mexico Territory. He was to investigate why so many mine owners are turning up dead. Also while he was there, find out why ore samples do not match the ore quality when it gets to US Government Mints in Nevada and California. During his investigation, while riding down Burns Gulch, Shorty is shot in the head and is in a coma for well over a month. When he comes to, he has no memory of who he is or why he is there.

Saddle up and ride the same wild lonesome trails as US Marshal Shorty Thompson did in the 1870s through the 1890s. Feel the dry heat of hot desert floors and the bitter cold of snow-covered mountain passes, as Shorty gets shot and survives as he goes after lawless men. Though the novels are written about things that happened over 140 years ago, many of the old towns can be visited today. Many are in ruins, destroyed, but others still survive as haunting ghost towns.

Bud Larson was a young no-nonsense fellow, never once thinking of stepping outside the law. He had been using a pistol and rifle from a very young age around his father’s ranch. On his 19th birthday, he told his father and mother he was riding into town to have his first ever beer. His dad smiled, “Son, one beer never hurt no one. It’s when you go to putting away that first, then another, and another you can get into trouble.” Bud wasn’t in that saloon 10 minutes when a bully didn’t like his looks.

Fourteen-year-old Sonny Henderson was headed toward the barns with three milk cows in front of the horse. He stepped from the saddle and opened the gate then remounted. Swinging his rope and hollering, the cattle moved on toward the lot beside the barn. Just as they came around a bend in the river, two shots were heard coming from toward the house. He left the cattle and kicked his horse into a run.

Wendy Webber is 24 years old lying in bed with a broken jaw and several other bruises. Just a few days ago her ex-husband and five men stormed into the back room of her small café, knocking her to the floor and kidnapped her two children. David is ten years old and Misty eight.

Little Timmy Wallace was six years old when his mother passed away. He was raised by a loving father on the family ranch a few long miles south of San Simon, Arizona. Timmy was now 11, and fall roundup was over. His dad Jim and two hired hands drove that herd over 40 miles to Wilcox to the railroad and a waiting cattle buyer. Timmy and his grandfather stayed behind to do the daily chores. It was late in the day when Jim was paid 25,000 dollars. 

Late one spring evening, well before sundown, Willie Goode rode into the small village of San Antonio, New Mexico. Tying his big red mules at the hitch rail in front of the only saloon, he stepped down and stretched his back and stomped his feet getting the circulation flowing again. Walking around the hitch rail, he was hit in the side of the head with a hard fist.

Jake Jackson was a legend in the Old West. His ability with a gun was unmatched. His name brought hope to the oppressed and sent shivers of fear up the spines of outlaws. Jake Jackson was equally as revered among the Comanche where he was raised from an infant to become the Comanche warrior White Wolf. There were many songs sung around campfires in Comanche villages praising his fierceness in battle. Jake Jackson could revert back to his Comanche ways in the blink of an eye when the situation demanded, no mercy to those preying on the weak or unprotected. 

Marshal John Kennedy is given an assignment. Only he knows how to defeat the killer that, if left unchecked, will kill any and all it comes across. With the help of another marshal and some cowpunchers he comes across, he is forced to fight this murderer to the death. This is a brand new western adventure, filled with plenty of action, adventure, and unlike anything you've ever listened to before!

Marshal John Kennedy has life by the tail. A good town under his watchful eye, a lovely bride-to-be, and the honor of being one of the youngest and most accomplished marshals around. Bill Bundy and his gang of thugs would change all that, however, when they come to Angel, Texas and wreak utter havoc. Can Marshal Kennedy, his bumbling wanna-be deputy, Jack Jameson, and the town drunk, Jonas Flannigan, end the destruction?

In the spring of 1882, after arriving in the small village of Albuquerque, Lee J Robins got arrested and thrown into jail because he was wearing a gun. A small boy, Lorenzo Baca sees this happen and picks the locks of the jail, and sets him free. That is when he found out it was Emmett Blazedale’s men that had locked him up. This gang of murdering skunks had taken over the small Village of Albuquerque. No way could he fight this large gang alone, but who could he trust getting help? He must bide his time and let no one know why he is here.

Charles LeFlore began his career in law enforcement with the Choctaw Lighthorse Police, helping to bring law, order, and justice to the Indian Territory of the western United States. His success in bringing in wanted men led to his appointment as a United States deputy marshal serving the territory surrounding Fort Smith, Arkansas. Follow along with LeFlore and his fellow Choctaw lawman, Talako P. Vaughn, as they track, capture, and sometimes kill some of the most dangerous outlaws in all of Indian Territory. 

When Heck Thomas became a United States deputy marshal, he had already begun a colorful career in law enforcement. His mission to rid the country of despicable outlaws began in Georgia, took him to Texas, and finally to “Hell’s Border”, in the wild town of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Join United States Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas on his quest to avenge injustice throughout Indian Territory. He’ll stop at nothing, even at the expense of his personal life, to hunt down and capture the violent men wreaking havoc in the region.

Eighteen-year-old cowboy Cody Strickland lost his parents to an illness that he didn’t understand. Saddened, confused, and alone, he saddled up and rode north, stopping and working awhile, but bounced around from one location to another. His new boss on the Double Bar X Ranch put his trust in Cody after only a couple of months. He was to go along on a cattle drive from northeast of Cheyenne, Wyoming all the way to Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Jesse Owens was only nine years old when his family pulled up deep roots in their Tennessee valley coalmining town, and headed west. Riding a borrowed horse, he got to ride drag with the outriders. In Oklahoma Territory, he shot an outlaw in the back while saving one of his fellow outriders. Outlaws kidnapped Jesse's sister and two of the Stillwell girls in the Texas Panhandle, while the men from the wagon train were off somewhere wiping out an Comanchero camp.

Janice McCord is 14 years old, when the five Kraymon brothers ride in and shoot down her parents and twin brother Jack. She takes up Jack's name and her father's .45 to blaze a trail of revenge across the Territory of New Mexico. After out gunning one of the brothers in a saloon in Silver City, New Mexico Territory, outlaw friends of his are hot on her trail. When they catch up to her on the side of a mountain, she leaves a few more dead. Her fast shooting and sharp wit, turns a couple of them from lawlessness to helping her track down the killers of her family.

Early one summer morning, 14-year-old Vivian Thompson rode out of Taos, New Mexico Territory, on her way to Cimarron. Following the stage road east up Taos Canyon, would take several hours getting to the top of the summit, 9,100 feet high Palo Flechado Pass. The road ran along the north side of a meandering creek. Farther up it switched back left then right, growing steeper and steeper. Once up top there was a pull out clear spot where the stage stopped to rest horses. She stopped and looked down the east side of the mountain.