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A mining camp hangs a murderer, but the crowd is unprepared when the body is lowered.
A soldier survives an ambush on the frontier and returns to a fort where no one accepts his account.
A rancher claims he killed his Chinese worker over a simple task, but a local witness tells another story.
Alone in a deserted mining camp, Hiram Beeson waits each night for a visitor from beneath his floor.
A stranger at a desert campfire tells how four prospectors were trapped in a cave thirty years earlier.
At a remote Siberian ferry, a hardened exile tells a homesick young man that survival depends on wanting nothing.
A timid traveler is mistaken for a space-polo expert, then forced into a deadly match with his ship and reputation at stake.
A mild bookkeeper’s quiet tour of the Solar System turns him into an asteroid-town marshal with an alien beast for backup.
Three friends invent time travel, claim prehistoric America as a nation, and discover that founding a country is harder than reaching the past.
A woman in a remote Klondike cabin waits for Dave Walsh, and a visitor's guide knows why he has not come.
A captive fur trader claims he can make his skin resist an axe, then wagers his life on a test.
Two Klondike partners buy a handsome sled dog who refuses to pull and keeps finding them whenever they leave him behind.
A Yukon camp's judge wakes alone in a boat with no food and no memory of how he got there.
To settle her father's debt, El-Soo puts herself up for auction while refusing the creditor who wants to own her.
A traveler finds an old acquaintance trapped in an abusive marriage in a remote Louisiana cabin.
A fugitive from a Texas gunfight is offered a dangerous new identity in a distant coastal country.
A former Southwestern outlaw explains how train robberies work—and why the life is not worth the price.
A ruthless Texas outlaw, a determined ranger, and the woman between them move toward a reckoning in the thorny frontier.
A talkative sheepherder takes a job on a lonely Texas ranch where a notorious train robber may be hiding nearby.
A sidelined cowboy asks his camp cook for pancakes and hears the wild story of a recipe, a romance, and a very successful deception.
A ranch foreman tries to impress a fearless cattle king's daughter when a dangerous lion interrupts their evening in the prairie.
After a daring train robbery, two partners must decide who gets the only horse capable of carrying them away.
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