Two tired but happy punchers rode into the coast town and dismounted in front of the best hotel. Putting up their horses as quickly as possible they made arrangements for sleeping quarters and then hastened out to attend to business. Buck had been kind to delegate this mission to them and they would feel free to enjoy what pleasures the town might afford. While at that time the city was not what it is now, nevertheless it was capable of satisfying what demands might be made upon it by two very active and zealous cow-punchers. Their first experience began as they left the hotel. "Hey, you...

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Clarence Mulford created the forerunner to the iconic Western hero when he wrote Bar-20 Days and brought Hopalong Cassidy to life. But this is not the Hoppy of the silver screen and television as depicted by William Boyd in the 1940s and 50s. This is a hard drinking, cigarette smoking, none-to-gentle with his language Cassidy that, right or wrong, backs his friends play in this, the first in a series of novels that stretched from 1914 into the 1950s when Louis L'Amour was chosen by Mulford himself to continue the saga. Bar-20 Days was Hoppy's debut and 100 years later, he is still alive and...

Early 1840's and the West is opening up. Wagon trains are headed to the Oregon Territories and Texas is still an independent republic. Tom Boyd is pushed into a Santa Fe street by the Mexican governor of New Mexico. Boyd slaps the man's face and runs for his life. Agents are sent after Boyd with one order - "Bring him back alive or bring me his ears " Boyd decides Oregon is much safer than New Mexico, until a chance meeting with a young woman changes his destiny...

Hopalong Cassidy rides into danger again with the hands of the Bar-20 Ranch in West Texas. Rustlers are running rampant and it is up to Hoppy and his sidekicks to find the man responsible. But be warned, this is NOT the Hoppy William Boyd protrayed on the Silver Screen and Television. Mulford's Hopalong Cassidy is a hard-drinking, roll-your-own smoking, itching to get rowdy cowboy ready to back the play of his friends at the drop of a hat.

Johnny Nelson, Hopalong Cassidy's young protete, takes on the thankless task of finding out why people keep disappearing in the Twin Buttes area. In doing so he has to assume the role of gold prospector and cattle rustler. Can he discover the secret before he himself is 'disappeared'?

Johnny Nelson, Hopalong Cassidy's young protege, has finally got hitched. bought into a ranch and run into rustlers, bank robbers, and thieves with murder on their mind. It is possible Johnny, Hoppy, and Red Conners, three men from the Bar-20 can bring an end to this reign of terror? I wouldn't doubt they do it in style "