Bøger af Oscar William Case

Sheriff Cyrus Ocklund wakes up one morning to find that his Deputy has been strangled to death. He hires a Ute Indian to help him find the killer and do other duties in the small, quiet town of High Bench, Utah Territory. A gang of outlaws blows up the bank and takes off with the money. The Sheriff rounds up a posse and follows the trail of the outlaws. A woman posse member is taken captive, further aggravating the situation, and the small posse is not large enough to take on the thieves. An exciting story of cat and mouse to the final shootout along the Green River.

Sheriff Bill Little has his hands full when Jack Jolley comes to The Gulch. Jolley is followed by his boss, Charlie Bender, owner of the CB Ranch with his herd of cattle and his ranch hands. The Sheriff hires a Deputy, Archie Mahoney, to help him control the CB gang and the trouble-making Ute Indians, Red Nose and Chimmy Royo. Also, there are the Sawley brothers wanted for rustling cattle in Wyoming, and there is the shooting of a newcomer who intends to sing in the Boot Trail Saloon, owned by Skinny Skinner. Someone tries to kill the Sheriff, and, as if that weren't enough, Deputy Mahoney can't make up his mind which girl to marry, Abigail, the doctor's daughter, or Tessie, the sister-in-law of Mr. Althorpe. And then there are the cowboys from Wyoming in cahoots with the rustlers and it all comes to a head in a shootout in the saloon.

This is the story of the Hawkins family who struggle to maintain a ranch in Sagrado, New Mexico Territory. They must fight off the Apache Indians who raid and steal cattle and horses, and they also must defend against their own ranch boss, Shorty Jones and his gang of rustlers. It is seen through the eyes of a son, Thaddeus, who returned from the Civil War with his brother, Pete, and is now doing the books for the ranch.

Tom Anderson returns to Hillside after a two-year mission and gets caught up in a bank robbery. Not knowing much about the law, Sheriff O'Shaughnessy makes him a Deputy and tells him to chase the outlaws with the help of Chet Amundsen and Cadmus Brownson assigned to retrieve the money for the Mormon Church. Tom and Chet both fall for Amelia Sharp, whose family owns the Hillside general store. Their rivalry follows them on the trail of the outlaws and the problems that arise in the pursuit of justice. Characters from the past and present make this an entertaining story of the Old West that takes place in Utah Territory, including gunfights, Indians, bank robberies, and the everyday routine of ordinary people.

Murder, mystery, and mayhem follow Jimmy Snyder when he is arrested and thrown in jail for killing Grady, a crime he did not commit. After being released for lack of evidence, he sets out to find the real killer and runs into more killing and mischief. He falls for Julia Jesperson and more obstacles are put in his path to prevent him from finding out what is really going on in this quiet little town in Southern Utah.

In Utah Territory, a young Indian, Bobby Chase-the-Lord, leaves Dry Creek to start his own church but is sidetracked by murder, theft, a girl, and his partner's (Kid Ferry's) misdeeds. They become lawmen in Idle Springs and have to split up to avoid the law. Bobby stays a lawman and Kid hits the owl hoot trail with the Castanat gang. They know they will have to face each other some time in a showdown.

A collection of short stories based on tales heard as the author was growing up in the small town of Altonah, Utah, especially those of Butch Cassidy and his gang. Others are purely from the author's imagination. Traveling to the Rockies in 1847 is true, but written to be comical with a little satire.

A Western novel with gunfights, a lost girlfriend, Indians, and the search for a new church location. Bobby Chase-the-Lord leaves Idle Springs, Utah Territory, and heads to California to build a church. Hired to work on a cattle ranch in the High Sierras, he finds trouble is lurking and his church may never get built. Clyde Sweeney, his so-called white brother, shows up to help Bobby. Daphne Merik, Bobby's girlfriend, travels with Clyde but but comes up missing along the Tules River.