Land Of Promises And A Gun For Johnny Deere

Two classic westerns for one low price! Here is a classic book od the frontier by the winner of the Golden Spur Award and the Western Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award.

Hated, hunted...the saga of kid who became a man too soon The day Johnny Deere left Star City he became a man. The people he thought were his friends had used and tricked him. They stripped him of his innocence and taught him how to kill. And then they told him to get out. Johnny learned fast. Next time it would be different. Next time he'd move first... Three-time Winner of the Spur Award Wayne D. Overholser Author of "Law Man" and "The Violent Land."

Their hunger for a piece of the earth made living hard...and dying all too easy Trail-wise maverick Mark Manning had a nose for trouble and this time the scent for death was on the Colorado wind. With 700 land-hungry pioneers competing to settle on Indian territory, just surviving was a victory. But Manning would live to see destinies forged in fire and blood. The claim-jumping mad-dog ready to murder for an acre, the Ute warriors betrayed by the white man's hollow word, and the young girl whose love Manning would risk his life for— these were the brave, the broken, and the brazen who made their stand in the LAND OF PROMISES. When it came to tales so vivid they seem to carry the scent of the campfire, the echo of gunfire, and the untamed spirit of the West, one storyteller stands out: Three-time Winner of the Spur Award Wayne D. Overholser Author of "Law Man" and "The Violent Land."

"SELL OUT AND GET OUT—OR I'LL KILL EVERY MOTHER'S SON OF YOU!" Jeff Ardell was a peaceful man and a friend of Big Ben Shortt. But when Shortt got land-greedy and brought in the merciless hired guns to murder the shirt-tail ranchers, Ardell strapped on his Colt 44 and led the homesteaders into WAR IN SANDOVAL COUNTY. A HARD-HITTING NOVEL OF RANGE WARFARE ON THE HIGH PRAIRE

SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR Clay Roland, marshal of Paiute City, was on the main street when the young stranger rode into town, looking for him. Soon after, the stranger lay dead on the floor of Kelly's Bar, shot by Blacky Doane after he refused to turn over a letter he claimed was for the marshal. Confronted by the marshal, Blacky decides to hand over the letter and then leaves town. The letter is from a lawyer in Painted Rock, a distant town in the shadow of Skull Mesa. Clay's father has died, leaving him the Bar C Ranch. But there is trouble at Skull Mesa, and the lawyer advises Clay to keep his arrival a secret. The letter poses questions to which Clay has no answers, and there is only one thing to do. He must leave Paiute City and ride the long distance to Painted Rock, where trouble will prove a greater challenge than he has ever faced. “. . . likable story from old pro Overholser.” —Booklist

The three-time winner of the Spur Award presents three of his classic novels in one collection that demonstrates his range of imagination and depth of characterization. Includes "Rainbow Rider, The Leather Slappers, " and "The Fence."

What is it that pushes a man, cold-bloodedly and with his eyes wide open, into a spot where he knows he's buying into trouble — bad trouble, even to the point of losing his life? Dan Quaid was no different from most men—yet at forty he left a safe, com­fortable farm in settled country, to push out to a rawhide town and a mountain ranch that everyone in town warned him he'd never live to keep. But Dan had the kind of guts that set­tled the West—he didn't know when to quit in the first place—and espe­cially when he was told he couldn't stay.