Robert Hale: 458 books

Griffin Boone is happy in his Wyoming valley; he has his Arrowhead ranch, his close friends, a good stock of cattle and a job as a part time deputy sheriff in the county of Liberty. Boone has ridden through the battlefields of the Civil War, served throughout with John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade, he...

The deadly hired killer Fire Wolf is heading to a remote settlement in answer to a telegraph message. On the way there he tangles with three wanted outlaws in the ghost town known as Gold Strike. When the remaining two outlaws show up they vow vengeance and trail the emotionless Fire Wolf. Upon arriving...

Just after Sam Foster the undertaker has received a letter telling him to have three fresh graves dug, a mysterious man in black arrives in War Smoke with revenge in his heart. Jonas Ward has travelled all the way from the Eastern Seaboard to fulfil the dying wishes of his late brother Lucas - to...

Some men operate beyond the law's reach. Such are the Macreedys. They sell whiskey to the Indians across the Canadian border, then cash in their loot (including that gained from the selling of Indian women and children) and return to their horse ranch outside of Rimrock, Wyoming, outwardly living...

Joe Kelly has bought a half share in Travis Neal's ranch in an area reputed to be Comanche territory. While searching for his missing partner, Kelly encounters a Comanche war party, three former Confederate soldiers fleeing a killing in Mexico, the Mayne family and a renegade gang. The arrival of...

The San Tomas river is in flood and a mixed bunch of travellers are forced to stay in the decaying township of Red Rock Crossing. There is Jesse Grant a once-successful rancher who is fleeing his enemies the Santos brothers. Then, there are Ben and Marty, a pair of Texas Rangers escorting Hamel, a...

Mickey Dole's gang have broken jail, killing and plundering in their bid for freedom and ranch-hand, Clem Shaw, joins a posse that includes a devious bounty-hunter and a reluctant lawman. As the hunt progresses, Clem realizes that the situation is not as clear-cut as he thought: not all his enemies...

Trouble is looming along Warbonnet Creek between a powerful rancher named Marryat and the smaller cattlemen. Ned Hogan and his neighbours, the Caseys, are leading the opposition but they are up against Marryat’s hired gunmen and corrupt Sheriff Templeman, leaving them with no protection from the...

Jeff Malone had no interest in the outlaw Jonas Grigg until their paths accidentally crossed. Then, partly out of self-preservation and partly because of an atrocity performed by the outlaws, he led an army patrol against them. The gang is smashed but Grigg narrowly escapes and those who antagonized...

The outlaw King Lesley has set up his lawless kingdom in the San Christobal Mountains and from there has been plundering the countryside around Henly Springs for two years. Finally the townspeople pressure their local sheriff into leading a posse against the outlaws but they are ambushed by Lesley's...

Jenny McAndrew and her two sons live in the valley known as McAndrew's Pass. When they hear the new Rocky Mountains Railroad Company has plans to lay a line through the valley and their farm, they are devastated that their simple life will be destroyed. Clarence Harper, the ruthless boss of the railroad...

Steve Karner was attacked one night in the woods outside Stayton, Oregon. Beaten nearly to death and thrown in the river, he hadn't been seen in years, and everyone assumed he was dead. But then the men who had tried to kill him started dying, one by one, and it soon became apparent that Karner was...

Sheriff Thomas of the small town of Fenton's Creek is exceedingly puzzled when an elderly recluse is murdered. This first murder is followed swiftly by another and it soon seems that Fenton's Creek is at the centre of an affair which has even the government in Washington alarmed. Into this maelstrom...

Wes Stretton has ridden a long way to gain vengeance on Yoakum, who he holds responsible for killing his friend. The trail takes him to the town of Buckstrap where he meets the enigmatic Lana Flushing and walks straight into a range war between rival ranches: the Bar Seven and the Sawtooth. But someone...