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An attack by a dirty bushwhacker causes Will Cannon to have Amnesia. Two young women find him and take him to their farm house but Will has to find out why the outlaws are attacking him. Will struggles to find out his identity and the reason he came to Magdalena, New Mexico. Will enlists the help of some ranchers and cowboys and one old prospector that loves to blow things up with dynamite and works to bring the outlaw gang to justice.

The strip of land on the northern Arizona border is known as No Man's Land or the Outlaw Strip. No state wants to claim title to this land because the town of Compton and the nearby land is a lawless hell hole that is occupied by ruthless cutthroats and murders. However, there are some good people in Compton, and some young bronc busters work taming wild broncs in the mountains near No Man's Land. Will and Joe Cannon need to buy the horses from the bronc busters, so Will rides the trail alone to No Man's Land.

Will and his brother, Joe Cannon, each receive a letter containing only a 45-caliber bullet and scratched on the brass of the bullet are the words "A Bullet for Billy". Neither Will nor Joe know the meaning of this cryptic message but they do plan to find out. No one in Santa Fe knows the meaning of this message except Bill, and the man trying to kill Billy.

Will Cannon rides to Concho Creek, Colorado, to buy some broncs, but he finds a gang of outlaws trying to take over this small town. The outlaws are going to dam up the creek and force the other farmers and ranchers to sell their property. Will makes friends with a beautiful woman and the three bronc busters help Will fight the outlaws.

Will Cannon receives a telegram from Texas Ranger Tex Bodine that describes a murder that is going to take place in Santa Fe. The Murder for Hire Gang killed one old miner in Santa Fe and now they plan to kill another miner to keep him from testifying in court. An Indian named Grey Dog is a member of the Blackman Gang. Blackman and his gang of murderous cutthroats killed Will's family in Virginia many years ago.

Will Cannon decides to help two young Arizona rangers clean out the nest of vipers known as Outlaw Town. Will travels to Prescott, Arizona, and then he poses as a Texas outlaw named Tex Avon to get into Outlaw Town. He is in constant danger as he works to put an end to the outlaws in Outlaw Town and in Prescott.

Will Cannon took care of the outlaws in Chama, New Mexico, and established his businesses there, but now the Wolf Creek Pass gang is robbing and killing innocent folks in the small silver mining camp of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Will rides to Pagosa Springs to bring justice to the folks the outlaws harmed.

Will Cannon leaves the derailed train to seek help for the stranded passengers, and he rides through a blizzard to the small town of Spirit, Arizona. Spirit is a very unfriendly town, and he meets a beautiful woman who is in serious trouble. Will has to fight outlaws and Mexican bandits to save the woman's gold mine. Will and the woman ride over several high mountain peaks with the Mexican bandits on their trail. He enlists the help of two Arizona Rangers to rid the town of Spirit of the gang of murderous outlaws.

Stories of the West is a collection of short stories, mostly set in the old west, and each story has its own unique setting and characters. Some of the stories will tug at your heart strings, some will pose a mystery and others will provide action and adventure in an old west shootout manner. I love the story about HOPE and I hope you will too.

Scarlett Vital, the beautiful woman Will saved from the Irish Gang in Las Vegas, New Mexico, is having trouble with a gang of outlaws at her whiskey distillery in Tennessee. Will rides the rails to Tennessee to fight the crooked Yankee carpetbaggers and their outlaw gang. Blackman was a Yankee officer in the war and Will hopes he has found the gang of outlaws that killed his family in Virginia several years ago.

Will Cannon had gone to Durango a few years ago and taken care of the Silver Dollar Killer and the Edwards Gang, but now a new group of murderous outlaws are taking over Durango. Will and his brother, Joe, do business in Durango, and he is not going to allow a gang of outlaws ruin his business there. Will rides to Durango and later to the lawless mining camp of To Hell You Ride, Colorado, to fight the outlaws. He enlists the help of some miner vigilantes and some young cowboys and Pete Abrams and his other men from Chama to fight the outlaws.

The vigilante, the Black Hood, is doing a good job fighting Marx and his hired killers in Dogtown, Colorado, but Will Cannon thinks the Black Hood might need some help. Will rides to Dogtown to buy saddle horses from some young bronc busters there and he finds himself right in the middle of the fight. Will enlists the help of the three brave young bronc busters and they set out to end the criminal careers of all of the men in the Marx Gang. All of the Will Cannon novels are classic western adventures.

Will Cannon hears about the trouble in Casa Rio and he hopes that some of the outlaws killing and stealing in Casa Rio are members of the Blackman Gang. Blackman and his gang of murderous cutthroats killed Will's family and destroyed their plantation houses. Will had sworn a blood oath to find and kill Blackman and every member of his gang. Will knew he was riding into a power keg with the fuse burning in Casa Rio, but he had been in that situation many times before. Will reined his horse in and looked at the small quiet village of Casa Rio.

Harley Bowman is the sheriff of Quay County, New Mexico, and someone is killing the innocent citizens of Tucumcari. Tucumcari is a small town with limited resourses, but Harley must find a way to stop the killer before more innocent people die.

Will Cannon rides the rails to the California wine country looking for the Blackman Gang. He starts buying and shipping horses, but the outlaw boss, Ricardo, doesn't want anyone getting in his way, and the battle lines are drawn. Will gets some help from some young cowboys and a band of Modoc Indians to fight the outlaws.

Will Cannon rescues Mountain Mike, the last living mountain man, from a gang of outlaws from Taos, New Mexico. The gang of ruthless outlaws are trying to steal Mike's silver claim. Will gets some cowboys and some vigilante miners and devises a plan to rid Taos of the outlaws.

Will Cannon receives an important telegram from his brother, Joe Cannon, in Santa Fe. A gang of vicious outlaws have abducted some of the government officials. Will gets on the train and heads for Santa Fe to stop the criminal activity. Several innocent people have been killed, and Will and his brother, Joe, won't allow that to happen. The outlaw gang has plenty of men, money, weapons, and criminal background, but the outlaw gang doesn't have Will Cannon.

Will Cannon rides the trail alone to California in search of the Blackman Gang. Will thinks a district judge named "Hanging Henry" Hart has joined an outlaw gang. Several other elected officials such as the district attorney and the sheriff may also be working with the polecat outlaws. Will gets some help from some California state marshals and from a beautiful women as he tries to bring down the Wall Gang.

Will Cannon rides alone to the Tall Timber Country in Oregon looking for the Blackman Gang. He finds a town full of scared people that has been overrun by a gang of outlaws and another outlaw boss running the lumber camps. This country is much too beautiful to hide such evil deeds, so Will sets out to make things right.

Will Cannon hears about a gang of outlaws that have taken over the small northern New Mexico town of Cimarron. Will hopes he has found the Blackman Gang. Blackman and his gang of cutthroats killed Will's family many years ago in Virginia, and Will swore to avenge the deaths of his family by killing Blackman and every member of his gang.