Gunsmoke and Grit

Red Mountain The Gunsmith, Giant Edition #11 by J.R. Roberts Jove, 2006 ★★★★★ When things get quiet, Clint Adams doesn't take it easy—he starts going stir crazy. That's how he found himself in Ouray, Colorado. A mysterious, unsigned telegram requesting his help in exchange for $1,000 was just enough to get him to leave Texas for this muddy mining town. But the moment he steps foot in the place, an unarmed man is shot dead...and he's got the Gunsmith's name in his pocket. Clint's unwittingly landed himself in the middle of a town full of rival mining companies, gunslinging miners, and their lustful wives—who all want a piece of the Gunsmith, for one reason or another. Like the stunning Gloria Augustus, the boss's insatiable wife, and a reclusive foreman who goes by the name of Frank Howard...but who Clint knows to be Frank James, the late Jesse James's brother. Things are getting heated with such mixed company, and if the person responsible for this invitatio...

Hanging Justice Slocum, #2 by Jake Logan Playboy Press, 1975 ★★★★✰ BLOOD VENGEANCE —Slocum's way...When the Vanner brothers raped the sheriff's daughter and then shot the sheriff, Slocum couldn't have cared less, but when they went after his woman and murdered her, he was out for blood. Slocum would hunt them down one by one, even if it took him the rest of his life. Through the wild, brawling cattle towns, through the vast, sagebrushed deserts, through towering mountains and canyons, Slocum would track them down. He wanted them sorry they'd ever heard of the sheriff, the daughter, the whore, and especially Slocum. He wanted them to pay, every single one of them—his own special way. The Western genre was on its last legs when the 1970s rolled around. Sure, Louis L'Amour novels were still selling, but many believed the glory days were behind them. Then, with a cheeky twist, publishers decided to stir the pot by adding a little spice—enter the Adult Western genre. T...