Doug Bowman

"Kirb Renfro and his wife left behind a stable life in Tennessee to head west to try and test their luck on the vast plains of Texas. It was a new life for both of them, neither knowing anyone there or what the future held. But it was Kirb's dream, and his wife followed, believing that the dream was coming true when Kirb acquired a small ranch."--Jacket.

The making of a gunslinger in the Wild West. Billy Free has to flee his home to avoid arrest by a crooked lawman for a murder he did not commit. Now that he is an outlaw he has to kill to survive.

Texas was a vast, lawless frontier after the Civil War...Gunslingers rode roughshod over scarce, often corrupt, lawmen. Into this Texas rode young Jake Gannon, a tough but peaceable man from Kentucky, skilled in tracking and shooting, who dreamed only of a ranch of his own. Outlaws shattered his new life; his brother was ambushed by a crooked marshal. But, the last straw was when his beloved 16-year-old fiancée was raped and murdered. Now Jake Gannon...

Times are hard for the Curtin clan. Farming and raising cattle don't bring in enough money, and payments on the ranch are due. Curtin is the best there is with a six-shooter--and there are more wanted men than the law can handle. To save the ranch, Curtin brings ruthless criminals to justice--dead or alive. He becomes known far and wide as The Judge, a bounty hunter who will outdraw any man for a fair reward. But when his own brother is stabbed...

Doug Bowman puts the reader in the saddle beside Civil War veteran Litt Blue as he heads west after Lee's surrender. Blue is taken in by a rancher who is the grandfather of a close friend who died in the war. While learning the cattle business from the ground up, run-ins with toughs prove to the large-framed Blue that size alone is not enough to hold his own on this harsh cattle frontier. He learns to box and becomes on of the fastest draws around,...