Wyoming State Law Library

The Bronsons' homestead sat on grazing land used by the huge Capron Ranch, and ranch foreman Jake Gruger wanted Annalee Bronson and her mother to leave immediately. Annalee was determined, however, to stick it out with her only allies a poet and a gunman.

Peaceful Jenkins and his partner Applejack Peters ambled into the boomtown of Spanish Wells, and after outsmarting some troublemakers, Peaceful was made town marshal. In that capacity, he waged war against the men who controlled the town, but in the desperate and bloody battle, some deadly secrets would be revealed.

The stranger rode into Dry Crossing on Smith River and bought his provisions. There was something he needed to know, so he stopped at the tavern. In no time at all, he had been provoked to draw his gun, and it was lightning-quick. He was "The Spectacular Kid," and according to rumors that drifted through the hills, he'd been raised by a notorious outlaw--a killer.

When Colonel Johnston sends his hired gun to bushwhack Tom MacNeill in order to "jump" his claim to a gold mine, he finds he needs more protection, so he hires a young drifter--who turns out to be MacNeill's brother.

The gang called themselves the Scorpions, and when they struck, they were as swift, silent and fatal as the vicious animals that inspired their name. They would loot and kill with abandon as they rode through Texas, and return with their ill-gotten booty to a hideout in Mexico. No one had ever dared to stop their lawless rampages, but their luck was running out. Tucson Smith was an easygoing sort -- slow-talking and not easily riled. He didn't make...

Young Bob Dillon is anything but brave, but when a tough hombre rides off with his wife, Dillon realizes that he must prove his worth and earn his wife's respect before he can get her back.

Jake Glendon was dead. It could have been suicide -- but it looked a lot like murder. Either way, it was good news, so no one cared much one way or the other about the details. Folks would dance on his grave. But when the Three Mesquiteers -- Tucson Smith, Lullaby Joslin and Stony Brooke -- rode off after discovering the body, they had no idea that they had actually ridden into one of the toughest cases in their long career of unofficial outlaw-busting....

There's always something happening with the Bar-20 gang. For instance, there's the matter of the ghost of San Miguel Canyon who everyone agrees is the ghost of Carlos Martinez who was murdered long ago. But why does he show himself only on Friday nights -- and only to a Mexican? Hopalong Cassidy suspects there's a devious and practical reason. Then there's the day Hopalong rides into Rawhide and learns about its self-appointed ruler who is thought...

With cattle rustling on the rise in the cattle town of Randall, Wyoming, newcomers Martha Ann Dixon and Andrew Bonning join the ranchers in their fight to protect their livestock.