Nan Avery is a woman with troubled past and smeared reputation who decides to move from her hometown in order to escape some unsavory romantic entanglements and run away from gossips and people talking. She goes west to the town of Trail, seemingly a dull and common cattle town on the prairie, but like many of those, it has a secret. Nan learns of a territorial cattle war that goes on in the town and her involvement makes things complicated.

Major Bob Gillette was the old school western rancher and the owner of the Circle G ranch from Menard County in Texas. His son Tom was a softer type and he was sent east to get education, but he always felt he will come home. When his father gets betrayed and killed by one of his man Tom takes control of the Circle G and swears he will get vengeance against his father's killer.

Jim Chaffee is forced to leave the property that lays on the bank of the creek in his beloved Roaring Horse after three years of mismanaging his business affairs and going bankrupt. Chaffee leaves Roaring Horse ready to do whatever it takes to make a living and keep his head above water. He takes himself through numerous trials and tribulations endangering his life in the course of events, but he is prepared even for more, only to be able to go back to his beloved Roaring Horse at the end.

Owen Merritt and Sally Bidwell have a long history together as they loved each other for a long time and were on the verge of getting married. But destiny was against them and Sally ended up marrying Will Isham, owner of the biggest ranch in the state called the Skull, and the richest man in the Bunchgrass Hills. Animosity between Merritt and Isham grows as the Skull's owner tries to buy out a small-time cowboy and push him out of business. Caught between the woman who left him and the woman who loves him, Merritt is forced to stand up and fight for himself.

Burnt Creek is a collection of stories set in a small crossroads settlement called Burnt Creek in the vast wilderness in Oregon, mainly starring Dave Budd, local shop owner and a heroic pioneer who takes the role of a guardian of homesteaders and watches over the area. A Burnt Creek Yuletide Budd Dabbles in Homesteads When Money Went to His Head Stubborn People Prairie Yule False Face Rockbound Honesty

Murder on the Frontier is collection of nine stories Haycox published previously in magazines. The central theme of all stories is life on a frontier. Mcquestion Rides Court Day Officer's Choice The Colonel's Daughter Dispatch to the General On Texas Street In Bullhide Canyon Wild Enough When You Carry the Star

Buck Surratt rode a long way through the desert in order to get to the Morgantown where hoped to find a job. Night before he will arrive into the town he spends the night on the ridge near the road, when he hears a gun shot from the nearby canyon to which he doesn't pay too much attention. However, as he enters the Morgantown next day looking for a job, Buck ends up being interrogated by the town officials about the mysterious shot. Unwilling to share details of his past the stranger becomes a suspect and make as many enemies as friends in a new town.

When jury returns with the 'not guilty' verdict for an old town crook and smuggler Ollie Jacks it brings dissensions among few prominent people in the town. Everyone thought that Ollie deserves death for what he is believed to have done, but one of the town leaders, Clay Morgan, decides to spare his life and guarantees him safety if he stays in town. But Ollie can't trust Morgan's promise and goes on a run which propels a posse containing both those who want Ollie dead and those who want to rescue him.

The novel Trouble Shooter was the basis for the movie Union Pacific (1939), directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea Plot: Frank Peace is a hired gunman and security guard working for the Union Pacific Railroad company known for his temper and severe ways of dealing with those who try to interfere with railway and its progress. His reputation and his deeds have earned him a lot of enemies and one of them in particular, Al Brett, is determined to kill him. Brett announces to Peace the time and the place of when and where he plans to do it which brings his tension...

"Der Mann im Sattel" von Ernest Haycox zeichnet sich durch seine dichte atmosphärische Erzählweise und einen klassischen Western-Stil aus, der Authentizität mit literarischem Anspruch vereint. Im Zentrum steht die Geschichte eines Einzelgängers, der gezwungen ist, seinen Platz in einer rauen, von Gesetzlosigkeit und Pioniergeist geprägten Welt zu behaupten. Haycox nutzt eine präzise, schnörkellose Sprache, um sowohl die raue Landschaft als auch die inneren Konflikte seiner Figuren lebendig werden zu lassen und bietet so ein eindrucksvolles Porträt des amerikanischen Westens zur...