Adrift after his employer is killed in an accident, cowboy Will Tanner makes a stop at a tavern in Fort Smith, Arkansas. While sitting at a bar, Will witnesses a group of outlaws draw on U.S. Deputy Marshall Pride, who arrested one of their kin. Seeing that Pride is facing losing odds, Will steps in and saves the deputy's life. Afterwards, Tanner has a new job, a new badge, and enough grit to make him a legend on the American frontier.

True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available...

"US Marshal Madison James still can't remember the face of the person who shot her, but she's ready to get back to work. When she and Jonas Quinn go on the hunt for four fugitives wanted in a string of bank robberies, it's a race to see justice served-and the perpetrators will stop at nothing to avoid getting caught"--

"Mercy Brennan followed in her father's footsteps in a law enforcement career, but she has no interest in any other connection to him. A U.S. Marshal in St. Louis, Missouri, she's assigned to a joint task force with the St. Louis PD that puts her back into contact with her father and in the sights of St. Louis's most powerful gang. When the gang has reason to believe Mercy has possession of some highly sensitive and incriminating information, her...

"Before he can retire to work his Montana ranch full-time, he has one more important task to perform. A junior marshal who Tillman appointed in Laramie, Wyoming, a few years earlier has taken a wrong path and Tillman must remove him from office. Tillman leaves his two grown sons and his sister, Alice, on the ranch and sets out for Wyoming by railroad. Along the way, Tillman makes a few detours and stops to visit old friends and colleagues. As he travels...

"When Becky Pruitt's ranch foreman, Nate Paxton, confesses he's a former US Marshal investigating the notorious Deadeye Gang, she agrees to let the marshals use the ranch as a hideout. But the outlaws won't go quietly, and as danger draws ever nearer, Becky is drawn to Nate and finds both her heart and life in peril"--

"Back East, they told tall tales about Marshall Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the 'Hero of the Plains' for his daring exploits in the Wild West. But the truth, as revealed in his private journals, is even more compelling"--Publisher marketing.

"Sheriff Sunshine Vicram finds her cup o' joe more than half full when the small village of Del Sol, New Mexico, becomes the center of national attention for a kidnapper on the loose. Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee--and a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff--an election her adorably meddlesome parents entered her...

"Set in the early days of the Jensen family saga, this gunblazing adventure follows Smoke and Sally from their first year of marriage to the founding of the legendary Sugarloaf Ranch."--

This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma.