'"Exciting, realistic stories of the Texas Rangers, sure to keep the reader turning the pages until the last outlaw is brought to justice. Action-packed reading for everyone!" Texas Ranger Sergeant Jim Huggins of Company A. The Faith and the Rangers is an anthology of traditional Western and Texas Ranger short stories. For fans of the Jim Blawcyzk and Cody Havlicek Texas Ranger novels, the collection includes Left Handed Law, in which Jim and Cody meet for the first time. The Wind is a ghostly tale, as might have been told around many a cattle drive campfire. The collection includes action, adventure, and romance, with heroes young and old, some likely, others not so. There are ten stories in all, certain to please anyone who enjoys a good mystery or a thrilling tale of the Frontier West.

Texas Ranger Lieutenant Jim Blawcyzk is on the trail of the men responsible for the killing of a fellow Ranger and the disappearance of another. Jim's search will draw him into a web of deception, greed, and murder, where even a lawman's best friend may well be his deadly enemy. As Jim inserted the knife into a chink in the rocks, a bullet smacked into the wall just alongside his head, followed by the sharp crack of a rifle. Jim dove to his belly, pinned behind the inadequate cover of the ledge's slight lip as the hidden rifleman swept the rocks with an almost impossibly rapid fire. As the barrage of lead stopped for a brief instant, Jim chanced lifting his head ever so slightly, scanning the canyon in an attempt to locate the bushwhacker. "Got him spotted, on the rim over to the other side of the canyon," he said, as a glint of sunlight reflected off the gunman's rifle barrel for an instant. "Not that it'll do me much good," he muttered, ducking back as his assailant...

"Nobody writes Westerns with more heart and soul than James J. Griffin. Guaranteed enjoyment for any Western fan!"James Reasoner, author of TEXAS WIND and THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE SERIES."Jim Griffin brings to life fictional characters interspersed with real life experiences in the same voice as Max Brand and Louis L'Amour. This fifth novel in the series is as riveting as the first four."Sergeant Jim Huggins, Texas Rangers Company F.When a series of robberies and murders breaks out in north Texas, Ranger Jim Blawcyzk and his partner Smoky McCue are ordered to track down the killers. Their assignment is complicated by a dying eyewitness's claim the outlaws are United States Army cavalrymen. After a train is robbed and the crew viciously murdered, the Rangers are forced into a desperate race to stop the renegades before they strike again.Jim raced through the coach, leapt the gap to the next car, and had walked halfway up...

Nate Stewart's parents and older brother are brutally murdered by a gang of raiders on the Texas plains, and Nate is left for dead. But a company of Texas Rangers saves his life, and through a twist of fate, Nate proves himself as a provisional Ranger. At fourteen years old, he's too young to join the ranks of the Rangers just yet—but he's not too young to seek out the men who killed his family!From fighting with a knife to imbibing his first bottle of tequila, Nate learns some much-needed lessons in growing up. But when he and pal Hoot Harrison confront a gang of bank robbers, Nate is faced with self-doubt.A bloody confrontation with the pale-eyed devil who leads the band of marauders comes unexpectedly—quickly, violently—and ends with the deaths of more innocent ranch hands in a raid eerily similar to the one that took Nate's family. Only this time, Nate isn't the green youngster he was before. He's got a gun and he knows how to use it. He's A RANGER TO RECKON WITH...

Tim Bannon and a young Ranger, Tate Slocum, are sent to Sierra Blanca just before Christmas to stop a budding range war before it starts. Before their assignment is completed, they will find out a range war is the least of their problems. On their way home, their train is stranded by a ferocious blizzard. On board the train is a doctor bringing badly needed smallpox vaccine to the town of Toyah. With the train hopelessly stuck, the only chance for the vaccine to reach Toyah is for Tim, Tate, and a prisoner they've captured to ride twenty miles through the teeth of the storm. That ride may just be the toughest one Tim Bannon and his horse Rowdy will ever face.

Texas Ranger Nate Stewart has been through a lot in his life—and his losses aren't over yet. In the months that Nate has ridden with Captain Quincy and his Rangers, his best friend and pardner, Hoot Harrison, has been the rock Nate has depended on. But once beautiful Clarissa Hennessey comes into Hoot's life, she sets out to destroy the friendship between the two young Rangers.When the chips are down and Black Dog's raiders attack the Hennessey ranch, there's bound to be bloodshed and lives lost. Will Clarissa divide Hoot and Nate forever, or can Hoot prove that he's A RANGER TO STAND WITH?