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THE HANGING JUDGE

by J. D. Haines

Matthew Montgomery is a young New York City newspaperman eager to advance his career.  He accepts an assignment to do a story on the infamous Judge Isaac Parker, known as the "Hanging Judge" in Ft. Smith, Arkansas.

Matt arrives in Ft. Smith on the day of a hanging and is stunned to see six men strung up at once.  When he learns that a posse is headed out after the Buck Gang on the following morning, Matt sees an opportunity for a big story and convinces Judge Parker to allow him to join in.  He soon realizes that he may have gotten in too deep, as his own life is now on the line.

After meeting a beautiful girl named Dixie, and with his confidence growing, Matt volunteers to join a second posse.  What he doesn't know is that Dixie will also be going along.  Now, he'll not only need to worry about saving himself, but trying to protect the one he's fallen in love with.

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THE LAST TRAIL

by Ian Solomon

Retired U.S. Marshal Hollister Beldan runs a general store with his wife Rachel in Danville Hollow, Colorado.  After leaving a dangerous and miserable occupation pursuing cattle rustlers, bank and stagecoach robbers, Hollister's retirement comes at a time when great changes are afoot.  The period when the first automobiles appear on city streets alongside horse-drawn carts.  The time of a recession following enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

Despite some financial difficulty life flows easily for Hollister until his peaceful backwater community is violently shaken by five outlaws who ride into town and rob the savings bank as well as his own store.  After a town posse fails to apprehend the killers, Hollister embarks on one last hunting trail to kill the bandits who stole the one treasure that gave his last years any joyful meaning.

Up against a superior number of adversaries armed with the newest automatic weapons, Hollister sets out on a journey where he is forced into dreadful confrontations.  His path also runs him into a face to face with a vengeful ghost from his own violent past, revealing an event so deplorable that it seems none of Hollister's efforts at goodness could redeem him.

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RETURN TO BAD END

by Robert Kasch & Jason Crager

When Robert Kasch and Jason Crager got together to write Bad End in 2023, they created so much more than a classic western novel.  What they really founded was a legacy.  A place whose culture and mythology were so intriguing and influential that its true essence could not be captured in just a single volume.  And so, the authors continued to write.

You've heard all the stories of wild west towns such as Deadwood, Tombstone, and Dodge City.  You've read their histories and you've memorized their iconic characters.  Now it's time for you to experience Bad End, Arizona.  A town near the Mexican border that's ruled by the code of the West.  Where justice and revenge are served up with bullets to those who have it coming.  Here, without necessary traits like honor and courage, your chances to breathe another day are limited.  It's a town where the veil between illusion and reality thins.  Good and evil can either merge or collide.

This collection of seventeen original tales ranges from the practical to the fantastic, historical to contemporary.  Thoughtful and adventurous, aggressive and ruthless.  Welcome back to Bad End.

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BODIE

by Brandon Colbert

Jonathan Taylor, a young minister, has just arrived in Bodie, California, one of the roughest and wildest mining towns in the west.  His congregation hopes that he will help transform Bodie into a more respectable place, but he has a secret that threatens to undo their wishes.

As he struggles under the weight of his congregation's expectations and those of his father's back home, he finds himself deeply jarred by the violence and lawlessness permeating the town.  Aided by his only real friend, an alcoholic freighter with a troubled past, Jonathan searches for a way to find internal resolution.

When he becomes determined to help a young woman escape a life of exploitation, Jonathan forms a plan that makes him some very dangerous enemies.

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FLESH AND BONE

by Miles Spangrud

The Fort Pillow Massacre in 1864 was one of the most brutal moments of the Civil War, and for three confederate soldiers it was the beginning path for their lives of hate, redemption, blood, regret, and vengeance.

Barton Asher tries to futilely escape that day by running to Minnesota.  Vauhn Felton and Thacher Kane seek to relive it as often as they can while their insatiable bloodlust grows.

Lives and bodies are ripped apart as these men's paths progress and collide, and for the citizens in the Front Range town of Shotley, a bloody horror of pure evil is descending.

Written with a raw honesty, Miles Spangrud's Flesh and Bone is the shocking account of one deadly event in American history, its aftermath of terror and the permanent affects it had on the minds of those who experienced it all.

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I O YOU RANCH

by Warren Dunlap

I O You Ranch is a modern western adventure with intrigue, mystery, outlaws and new realization.  Set in the mountains of southern Colorado, the story follows a young magazine writer who has been assigned to investigate phony ranch adds.  Upon his arrival at the ranch, what he discovers there is far more than he ever could have imagined, and quite possibly everything that he unknowingly yearned for.

Going into the assignment, Boston is expecting to see an act.  A bunch of wealthy landowners playing cowboy and pretending that the days of the Old West still exist.  Instead, he is thrust into the daily grind of a real ranch hand.  As he learns what it takes to keep the ranch afloat and the importance of each chore, no matter how small, Boston finds friendship, honesty, and a kind of passion he never experienced before.  While attempting to reveal falsity in others, he uncovers a truth within himself that'll change his life forever.

Forwards by RW Hampton and Pastor Scott Hunt.

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BLOOD ON THE BORDER

by R. R. Steeves

John Tyler is a stranger to southern Arizona, but no stranger to trouble.  Hired by a powerful rancher to track down Lem Bate, the man who killed the rancher's brother, Tyler senses trouble right away.  He follows his quarry across the Sonora Desert into Mexico, to a small Confederate colony called Richmond, where Lem Bate has sought refuge from the law.

In Richmond, Tyler must contend with a paranoid community led by an ex-colonel with a violent past, a local rancher who considers himself judge, jury and executioner for anything that occurs on his side of the border, the Mexican rancher's hotheaded son, and a couple of desperate women vying for his attention.

With the odds overwhelmingly stacked against him, John Tyler relies on his tact and his guns while he decides who he can trust as an ally.

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Coming February 18, 2026

RIP CROWLEY IN FOX OSAGE

by Benjamin J. Kirby

Rip Crowley barely survived the Civil War.  Now a widower, he only wants to raise his children, Stella the baby and Jeremiah his young son, in the peace of the Arkansas mountains.

He is brought word of an old soldier heralding not just the promise of hidden treasure, but deadly trouble for his quiet town.  The threats to Fox Osage and Rip's family escalate until he has no choice but to defend it.  Made the reluctant Sheriff of Fox Osage, the old soldier recruits Jeremiah as one of his deputies and assembles a ragtag posse of townspeople and outlaw castaways to hunt the notorious Stetson Wolfe and the Renegade Wolves.

The Wolves, hell-bent on tearing through Fox Osage and claiming all of the treasure for themselves, will stop at nothing to find it.  Outnumbered and outgunned, it will be up to Rip, Jeremiah, and the old mysterious soldier to stop Stetson Wolfe before it's too late.  And it will be up to Rip Crowley to help his son take the first steps into manhood, and once and for all make real, lasting peace with his own troubled past.

Original cover art by Dan Boyd.