Halliday

Halliday had killed men before, but he wasn’t a killer for hire. Still, maybe he could convince Henley that it might be better for his health if he made dust and headed for someplace else. Trouble was, Henley had more lives than a cat. And to get to him, a feller first had to go through his pet gunman, the notorious Rafe Murchison. It appeared to Halliday that he was really going to earn his money

The land was little more than dust, the cattle slowly but surely dying on the hoof. And businessman Harp McPhee was going to exploit the situation. He hired a bunch of gunnies to do his dirty work. But he hadn't reckoned on Buck Halliday. Coming to the aid of his old friend, Finch Rogan, he strapped on his .44 and came to deliver redemption to the town of the same name.

Halliday was minding his own business when he rode straight into a shooting-match between a pair of youngsters and a bunch of seasoned gunmen. The contest was so uneven that he just couldn't pass on by, so he took a hand and soon found himself caught up in the middle of a bitter range war. It was an old story, and Halliday had heard all too often but this time something just didn't sit right

After months on the trail, Buck Halliday and Dave Lester, had finally delivered a rancher's cattle herd to market. Now they had cash in their pockets and a hankering to spend it. But then they were attacked by a bunch of riders, and in the fight Dave stopped a bullet. Halliday managed to get him to the town of Heathaze, but if he thought that was the end of their problems, he had to think again!

Old Ben Hillary had a rustling problem — a bad one. Somehow the cattle-lifters were able to strike time and again, always where they were least expected, and then vanish into the wilderness with their stolen beeves. When his hired hand, Buck Halliday, came up with a plan to beat them, Ben was all for it. But no one could foresee the bitter price he would have to pay ...

Butler never forgot that Buck Halliday had once saved his life and when by chance their trails crossed again, he was determined to reward Halliday from his newly-acquired wealth.Trouble was, there were folks around who figured that wealth had been stolen. And when the victim's son came looking for justice, Halliday had to decide just how far he was prepared to back his old friend.

Randy Davis had it all worked out. After the ambush, he and his gang were going to be richer than they’d ever dreamed possible. The one thing he didn’t count on was the unexpected appearance of a drifter who chanced upon them. He looked to Davis like a lawman.So he had to die. But the man himself had other ideas about that. And his name was Buck Halliday.

Dick and Hope Clayton knew that they needed protection against land baron, Aldo Latimer and when Buck Halliday rode in, they figured they’d found it. Halliday wasn’t looking for gun-work right then, but he lthought it was time to settle down. So he signed on. But the stakes were so high that soon, Halliday wasn’t sure who he could really trust; certainly not Aldo Latimer’s hired gun, Rees Mann.

Jude Cowley was an ambitious man. He wanted to take over all the land around the town of Maple and create an empire. One by one he had bought out or scared off all the smaller ranchers. Then Halliday rode into town. Cowley recognized something in the gun-fast drifter that he didn’t like. If he wasn’t careful, Buck Halliday could well become a threat. So he sent out the order – kill Halliday!

It wasn’t Halliday’s fight. But when he found an innocent man hanging from a tree for a crime he didn’t commit, he felt obligated to bring his own brand of justice to the guilty. When he saw a pretty young woman in danger, when he saw a kid shot to ribbons for trying to stand up and be a man, he had to buy into it. After that, it was war. All-out war.

Halliday was told to quit the territory, if he wanted to go on breathing. Wanting to avoid further trouble, Halliday saddled up and rode … straight into a trumped-up charge of stagecoach robbery and murder. Jailed and facing a hang rope, he had to bust out and find the real culprits. But with every hand turned against him, that was going to be one tall order.

The three hardcases were after Kirk Nesbitt. And now they had him, they were going to kill him, real slow. There was just one problem. The man they’d caught wasn’t Kirk Nesbitt at all. He was Buck Halliday. And Halliday knew just what to do when the deck was stacked against him. Halliday checked his weapons and went to war … and the body count started to rise.

Buck Halliday rode out of a dust storm and straight into trouble. It began with a boy tied to a corral post, a man hanging from a tree, a back-shooter who figured to claim Halliday’s scalp and a lawman with a real bad attitude. From there things only got worse … Blood and death that would come when Hell finally broke loose.

When Buck Halliday took a man’s money, he sided him all the way. And when the powder-keg finally exploded, he was right there with gun in hand, taking the fight to the men who threatened to take Beebe’s herd away from him!

Buck Halliday fled the town of Pardoo after being falsely accused of murder. In his haste to avoid a lynching, he strayed from the main trail and ended up in a desolate valley with a bad reputation. Before he knew it, he was fighting for his life against a vicious clan led by a madman. His only hope of salvation lay with the very posse that was trailing him!

The minute they set the kidnap in motion, nothing went according to plan. Norris Findlay managed to escape their clutches, she ended up running into Buck Halliday. They finally made it to Calder, and all hell broke loose.The kidnappers were determined to recapture their prey, and were willing to kill anyone who stood in their way. They did, too. Only Buck Halliday was a hard man to kill!