Powder Valley Books
Western. A very nice vintage collector's item. Number # 75813. Originally 75 cents.
On the trail to New Mexico, Pat Stevens and his friends Sam and Ezra risk their lives to fulfill a dying man’s last wish Two men ride across the desert. One is young, nearly mad with thirst and fear. The other is stalwart—a blue-eyed legend who doesn’t panic at the sight of a hanging posse on their trail. He asks no questions of the young man whose life he’s agreed to save. He simply rides. It has been fifteen years since a youthful Pat Stevens, wrongfully accused of stealing horses, placed his life in the hands of the legendary Mose Higgins. Since then, Pat has settled in Powder Valley and hung up his guns to run his ranch and raise his family. One day, a strange letter comes from New Mexico. Someone has threatened Mose’s life, and only Pat can rescue him and his innocent little girl. Pat owes Mose a priceless debt—and it can only be paid in blood.
1st Pocket 937 1953 edition paperback vg+ book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
An all-star gang of villains descends on peaceful Powder Valley On a tawdry street in the heart of Denver, men crowd into the saloon for two reasons: cheap whiskey and Connie Dawson. The loveliest singer in Colorado, Connie has a golden voice and a brassy personality, but along with a crooked preacher, a hotshot gambler, and the fastest gunman in town, she’s about to find herself in a whole lot of trouble. All four owe the sinister Judge Prink a favor—and he’s ready to collect. Prink has recently discovered the idyllic township of Powder Valley, home to Sheriff Pat Stevens and his faithful friends Sam and Ezra, and declared it ripe for the picking. With the help of his indentured gang of miscreants, he plans to strip the innocent little community bare. But when he meets Powder Valley’s courageous trio, Prink comes face to face with the law of the gun.
A retired Colorado sheriff rides south to the Mexican border to save a naïve young manBen Thurston is only twenty, and his years in college have taught him little of the real world, yet he believes he’s ready for anything. His whole life, he’s heard stories about the ranching empire of Jim Rollins, his father’s friend who made a fortune near the Mexican border. When Jim dies, Ben gets a letter from his daughter, a young beauty named Katie, pleading for help. With dreams of love and glory dancing in his head, Ben heads south from Powder Valley. Pat Stevens, the Valley’s former sheriff, knows Ben is riding into a hornet’s nest—the Big Bend of the Rio Grande is the most lawless place in the country, and it will take a fast gun to bring order to it. Luckily for Ben and Katie, Pat and his friends Sam and Ezra are the fastest in the West.
When two prize cattle are slain, the sheriff of Powder Valley is called to a freezing, violent town It’s bitterly cold in the Rockies when the locomotive reaches the end of the line. Only one passenger alights from the caboose: Nate Morris, a lean private detective with an easy grin and icy eyes. Sanctuary Flat is a grim little town, alone in the mountains and cut off from the world. The only business there is cattle breeding, and business is rotten. Two prize cattle have been killed, and the owners have hired Morris to find out what happened. When Morris is found with a knife in his throat, the men who run Sanctuary Flat call on the only men tough enough to tame this wild ranching town. Pat Stevens, sheriff of Powder Valley, and his sidekicks, Sam and Ezra, have faced death dozens of times. But nothing can prepare them for the evil corruption at the heart of Sanctuary Flat.
A young woman heads west to Powder Valley in search of her father—but finds trouble instead William Wilcox could never stand his life in Philadelphia. He adored his wife and their daughter, Joan, but the city strangled him. So he fled west, establishing himself under a false name in the idyllic township of Powder Valley, Colorado. When her mother dies, Joan travels to the Valley in search of the only family she has left. She shows an old photo to the sheriff, Pat Stevens, who recognizes the man in the picture as Bill Freeman, one of the most respected ranchers in the valley. It’s a happy moment, but tragedy is not far behind. The day after Joan’s arrival, Bill Freeman is found dead. Although she insists he was her father, she has no proof and ends up in a showdown with Bill’s adopted son over their inheritance. Unless Pat and his friends Sam and Ezra can settle the matter quietly, the Freeman farm will run with blood.
For the sake of cheated settlers, Sheriff Pat Stevens takes on a Powder Valley conman On a weather-beaten stretch of the Kansas prairie, a family fights to survive. Molly Hartsell is only twenty-seven, but years of barely scraping by have made her old before her time. Her children are frail, tired, and hungry. If something doesn’t change soon, the Hartsells are doomed. But Molly’s husband returns from the bank with good news: He sold the farm and invested every penny in property far away in Colorado’s lush Powder Valley. It’s a new start for the Hartsells, but it turns out their troubles are just beginning. When the Hartsells arrive in Powder Valley and discover they were sold a bill of false goods, it seems as if the family is ruined. But Sherriff Pat Stevens—with the help of his loyal friends Sam and Ezra—will fight tooth and nail to defeat the crooked swindlers and make sure everyone in town can call Powder Valley their home.
Pages browned with age, slight damage at bottom of spine, Sheriff Pat Stevens was riding into a nest of cold-blooded killers...
After a five-year absence, Frank Tulley is returning to the G Bar L Ranch, where he had once been ramrod, with plans to marry the owner s daughter, who must surely be back on the ranch after going East to finish her schooling. Night-trailing it back to the ranch, he finds himself the target of some unexpected gunplay and manages to rescue a nester s daughter from her pursuers."
Vintage western paperback, part of the "Powder Valley" series.
Western. A very nice vintage collector's item. Number # 6097. Originally 35 cents. Pat Stevens and his side-kicks enter a notorious outlaw settlement to flush out a fugitive killer!
This vintage western is part of the Powder Valley series.
Pat and Ezra cut a brisk trail through the rocky ridges, slowing down only when their laboring horses began to skid as the trail became steeper. Suddenly the crisp mountain air was shattered by a resounding blast--and the hot and ominous whine of a bullet ripped by Pat's face. At the same instant his horse bolted wildly and threw Pat onto the rocks. An answering shot cracked, and Ezra, a few yards back, leaped out of his saddle and ran to Pat's side. He stared unbelievingly--"Yuh ain't hit?" "Nope. Thought I got it that time, didn't you?" Pat's horse lay still. A single glance told the story. "Ez, that slug got him square between the eyes, tore on through, and damn near got me in the same place!" "Dunno who that rat is, Pat, but we ain't passin' this by!"
SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. CLEAN COPY. NO MARKING OR WRITING NOTED ON PAGES. NICE BOOK!
Terror in the Badlands!Pat Stevens flattened himself against the house as the harsh slam of gunfire tore the night. Gun in hand, he waited for the next move."Close in and blast him, boys!" Yandell shouted gruffly. "He ain't gettin' away!"More shots racketed, one slamming pat Pat's head. He caught a quick murmur of voices and fired at them, moving as he did so. The menacing guns drummed an answer. They were determined to cut him off from his horse in the corral. Pat's confidence began to wane. For the first time he began to Would he make it out of there alive.*The plains of South Dakota are aflame with violence. A gang of rustlers is terrorizing the countryside, and the local ranchers are powerless to stop the viscious stealing and killing. Pat Stevens hears of the trouble and with his friends Sam and Ezra rides into the Dakota country to smoke out the outlaws.*At first the rustlings and murders are blamed on the Sioux, but Pat soon learns that the real culprits are a desperate bunch of renegade ranchers. This discovery leads to a furious showdown full of hard-fisted fighting and blazing six-guns in a pitched battle on the brink of a plunging canyon.
Taken for an outlaw, Pat Stevens must prove his innocence by joining a band of desperados hell-bent on bloody misdoings
Pat Stevens and his pals Sam and Ezra had agreed to look over some ranch land for a prospective buyer—but they didn’t expect to be greeted by rifle fire. And they hadn’t planned on getting caught in the middle of a full-scale range war. Bullet is traded for bullet and danger builds to a quick and violent climax—with Pat and the boys shooting it out in a furious stampede of cattle and men.
PB, Man from Robber's Roost, Peter Field, 1st Avon Books Printing, January 1989, Overall Good to almost VG condition; covers have some minor scuff marks and edge creasing/scraping. Has vintage all around yellow color outside page edging. A classic book.
“STOP, THIEF!” the victims yelled. But Rostock always had the law on his side. Ben Rostock, the big buyer from Bent County, knew all the angles. He robbed men of their land, their cattle, their horses…even their wives…because he knew how to use the law. His big mistake was to try to swindle Pat Stevens and his Powder Valley sidekicks Sam and Ezra, because they knew about the power of the truth!
Western. A nice vintage collector's item. Number # 55049.