Wayne D Overholser: 44 books

Murdo Morgan returned to Paradise Valley, Ore­gon, expecting trouble. Sixteen years earlier, his father had planned to help hundreds of families set­tle in the valley. Not wanting to lose their spread, local ranchers had murdered Morgan's brothers and driven his family away. Now Morgan owned...

BATTLE AT BEECHER ISLAND Forty-nine untrained civilian volunteers, two wounded officers and a dying Army doctor were nailed down on a sand-bar in a shallow river by more than a thousand Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Sioux. For the fourth day the squaws and children shrieked with blood-lust. Roman...

From a three-time Spur Award–winner comes the tale of an orphaned boy who is forced to become a man. Mark Kelton is eighteen years old-part boy, part man. On the trail to set up a ranch in eastern Oregon, his parents are killed by an unknown assailant and their strongbox containing $8,000...

Bill Worden had been sheriff of Grant County for eleven years, yet now he was faced with the toughest twenty-four hours of his life. He had always succeeded in keeping things quiet between the ranchers and the farmers—but that was before he had a prisoner to hang: Ed Lake, a convicted murderer. Now...

FARGO IS COMING For two years, thirteen men in San Lorenzo had feared the return of killer Ben Fargo. For the day they had sentenced him to rot in Canon City Prison, he had sworn to get even with them. Now Fargo had escaped and nothing could stop him. Hate in his blood, a six-shooter in his...

A bullet-blazing saga of the West—and the hard men who fought for its spoils THE BIG MAN Dakota Jones was big—a big-fisted, big-boned man with a temper big enough for a dozen mountain men. Sam Hargadine was his opposite—a gambler whose icy self-control was his greatest weapon....

Central Oregon—the last frontier. Transportation is still by stagecoach and freight wagon. There is a movement afoot for a people’s railroad, paid for by the state, to bring the benefits of rails to the area, to make it easier to ship livestock and produce, and to encourage settlement. For years...

Stories included: "The Woman from Cougar Creek""The Price of Pride""The Devil and Old Man Gillis""Shooting for a Fall""It's Hell to Be a Hero""The Tongue-Tied Cowboy""From Hell to Leadville""The Deputy with a Past""Judge...

Dave Harmon was the best marshal Miles City ever had. And the toughest. He believed in his badge and everything it stood for. But sometimes a man had to step outside the law to live with himself. When Harmon’s time came, it came hard . . . it came to laying down his star and picking up a noose to hang the man who had saved his life. . . .

There are some men who play life as safe as it can be played, satisfied with their thirty a month and beans, satisfied to take orders, to have each twenty-four hours planned for them by some­one else and to wind up their days riding the grub line and swamping out a saloon. But there are other...

HOMECOMING SHOWDOWN Clay Bond was a drifter, a loner, a special man who lived by special rules coming home after sixteen years. He wasn't looking for trouble, but he expected it in a lawless valley that had become the one-man empire of a ruthless cattle king. He wasn't looking...

The summer warpath began in late spring 1876 and was one laid out under the command of General George Crook, perhaps the most experienced Indian fighter in the United States Army at that time. Among other officers under Crook's command was the daring and resourceful Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong...

“This ranch is mine—you got to kill me to get it.” All his life, Rod Devers had wanted only one thing—his own spread. To get it, he hired his gun to the highest bidder. When he had it he hung up his gun. Then Egan Valley exploded into range war. But Rod refused to take...

It was while Neal Clark was in the gunsmith's shop that the Shelly gang attempted to hold up the bank. Neal rushed out of the shop with his rifle, took aim, and fired, repeatedly, killing Buck Shelly and his son Luke Shelly. He may also have wounded Ed Shelly, a teenage boy, who was holding the horses....