John Mitchum arrives in Sagegrease straight into a heap of trouble. Someone is stalking him. To get some answers he must ride the long trail to Black Valley and towards his own past. The race is on. Who will get there first? Mitchum must contend all the way with Turkey Joe Mulligan and his vicious gang of outlaws. But there are others with a stake in the eventual outcome: the rich owner of the Quarter Circle and the mysterious stranger Challoner. It's payback time for somebody, but who?

William Henry John was a small time rancher. But when his wife died in a riding accident, he became a broken man. He turned to drink. At first his neighbours were helpful and sympathetic, but Henry John soon became the town drunk and ignored by all. Then one day his life changed. He saved the life of a young woman who he thought was his dead wife. She thanked him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. From that day forth, William Henry John became a changed, if disturbed man.

Infamous gunslinger Wes Longbaugh is heading for his next job in Utah when he comes across a traveller cast afoot in Nevada's arid Humboldt Sink. Never one to turn the other cheek when help is needed, Wes intercepts the staggering loner. It turns out that Mace Farlow was the sole outlaw to survive a stagecoach robbery that had gone badly awry. All the other robbers had been gunned down due to the treachery of a turncoat. Mace tags along with his saviour but is determined to track the double-crosser down. Fate, however, takes a hand when trouble in the next town leads to flight and a stand off in a lonely canyon where Mace is killed. Before he dies, the aging outlaw makes his young sidekick promise to abandon the precarious life of a gunslinger. But this is far harder to achieve than Wes could ever have imagined.

The bounty hunter had long thought of settling down. But when Jubal Thorne came to the small community of Brewlins he discovered a hotbed of intrigue and vice. Who was Abbey Watt and why was she central to the changes in a way of life? Changes that certain big businesses think will destroy them forever? Fighting back from the brink of destruction on his own account, Thorne is forced to face up to a responsibility he didn't know was his. Chas Stryker and his men decide that the only way to deal with a problem is to wipe it out for good. Along with a woman, two young men who are almost boys, and a grease-cook called Avery, Jubal Thorne makes a stand. Only, when the big boys decide to attack, this could be one stand too many.

The bond between wandering cowboys Buck Medwell and his younger brother Skip has always been fractious. So when Buck is forced to bust his kin out of jail following their pay-off at the end of a cattle drive to Newton, Kansas, the writing is on the wall. Their flight from the law into neighbouring Colorado leads to a split when bad blood finally spills over. But fate has a habit of playing a wily hand, resulting in the pair unexpectedly being thrown together once again. When Skip finds his life on the line, his brother needs to exert all his ingenuity to save the kid from the unscrupulous hands of arch schemer Diamond Jack Deakin.

Cord McQueen rides home from Fort Laramie to be met by the sight of three fresh graves on the hillside and a hail of bullets delivered by outlaws occupying the McQueen ranch on the Tongue River. Believing that his parents and young brother have been murdered, he rides to the Bighorn foothills where trapper Pierre Monet lives with his daughter.

Cash-hungry Nate Bannerman, unable to persua de his brother to sell the Lazy B, hires a look-alike killer to murder a young girl. Her half-blind father is the witnes s whose reluctant testimony gets his old friend Bannerman a life sentence. '