Outcast Breed

"Johnny's One Man Invasion" opens this new trio of stories. It was typical of Big Tim Mara, boss of a gang of border raiders, to invite Johnny Stevens to his wedding. Big Tim was marrying the girl Johnny loved -- and Johnny would be there, with his hands bound behind him.

"There's free range at Bone Lake...for dead men" is what Tom Gannett is told by men who have been driven into hiding in the nearby volcanic badlands in "Renegades of the Rimrock." This is not especially good news for Gannett whose 4BRS trail herd has been whittled down to 400 head by marauders, his brothers killed in fighting them off, and his crew reduced to three men besides himself.

Young John Rance in "A Bullet for the Utah Kid" is no outlaw, just a prospector who with his partner has discovered a rich pocket of placer gold and has shown up in Tule City to buy supplies. To do that he must somehow exchange the sacks of gold he has without anybody knowing of the strike.