The good old boys: "Hewey Calloway has a problem. He wants to be a footloose cowboy, endlessly wandering the land on horseback, but the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing. Land is being parceled out, barbed-wire fences are springing up all over, and cars are replacing the horse as a mode of transportation. Swimming against the tide of progress, Hewey begins to understand that the time of the cowboy is over, that the life he dreams...

"Hot Iron. In the early days of the Texas panhandle, starting a new life is hard, but keeping it is even harder. Espy Norwood is a troubleshooter already wrestling with a slew of problems when he lands a job on a ranch on the Texas plains and more trouble finds him. Bitter landowners plot against him, determined cattle thieves sneak right under his nose, and his own son refuses to trust or even know him. Can he catch the thieves, save the ranch, and...

"Elmer Kelton's Hewey Calloway returns in this novel of his middling years as he looks for work--but not too much work--in 1904 West Texas. Hewey Calloway is heading north to Colorado on a horse drive for an old friend, Alvin Lawdermilk, when he gets word that one of his hired hands is planning to rob him. After the plot is foiled, the fugitive horsehand is on the run and leaving bodies in his wake. Deputized to help bring the criminal to justice,...

A collection of twelve tales of the Old West chronicles the exploits of the legendary Texas Rangers, in an anthology featuring such authors as Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, and Ed Gorman.