Among the eleven stories included here is "Whack-Ear's Pup, " in which a cowboy finds a small puppy abandoned on the plains and brings it back to the Triangle R. The puppy kills the pet jackrabbit of the owner's daughter, setting off a crisis. In "Strange Fellows, " drifter Dan Torkaway shows up at the Triangle R looking for work. His only possession is a beautiful black horse, but trouble erupts when a stranger rides in intent on killing Torkaway's...

Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.

Reap the wild wind: Two sailors battle pirates and compete for the affections of a Southern belle in 1840s Key West. The spoilers: Adventure classic about gold and greed in an Alaskan boomtown during the 1890s. The war wagon: A rancher recruits a brash gunslinger and a raucous crew of misfits and readies them to pull off one of the most impossible heists of all time. Hellfighters: A demolition specialist battles a perilous oil-well fire and hopes...