Divine Arrow, a young Navajo, leaves his tribe believing that he can solve the problem of life by acting as a white man. He is, however, unable to escape from who and what he really is --- a potential leader of his own people.

To Elmer Kelton, the brush country of southwest Texas is home. Nobody knows Texas's history, people, beauty, and dangers as well as this greatest of Western writers. Barbed Wire, the first novel in this omnibus, is the story of one-time cowboy Doug Monahan, who runs a fencing crew outside the town of Twin Wells. Monahan, a likeable, hard-working Irishman, and his workers dig post-holes and string red painted barbwire for ranchers as protection against...

Smoke From This Altar, a book that has become legendary among Louis L'Amour readers, is the very first book L'Amour ever published. It appeared, to great critical praise, for sale only in Oklahoma bookstores more than fifty years ago. Since then it has become the most sought-after L'Amour title of all, with the few circulating copies from the small print run commanding top dollar from rare book collectors. Now, at last, it is being published nationally...

A collection of twelve short stories includes both old favorites and three previously unpublished works, including "Anything for a Pal," "The Moon of the Trees Broken by Snow," "A Night at Wagon Camp," "Backfield Battering Ram," and "Too Tough to Kill."

A novel reflecting the rugged life of the early homesteaders of the Southwest.

"Young Mark Kelton is eighteen years old, part boy, part man, when his family sells their holdings in the Willamette Valley to buy a ranch in eastern Oregon. But during the journey through the mountains, a thief murders Mark's parents and steals their money. Then Bronco Curtis rides into Mark's life. Under Curtis's tutelage, Mark becomes an expert rider, an experienced cowboy, and capable in the use of firearms. But always at the back of Mark's mind...

Bill Canavan was a young man who knew what he wanted--a ranch in good stock country. He intended to settle for nothing less. The big ranchers, former rustlers turned respectable, were now in a shooting war with one another. In the middle of the fracas was a small spread and one elusive lady--and where Canavan decided to stake his claim.