Frank Bonham

A double dose of Western action from one of the genre's acknowledged masters. The first story, "The Rodeo Killer," is a smoldering tale of the violent intersecting conflict between New Mexico cattle ranchers, cattle buyers, and men breeding horses for the rodeo circuit. Greed, deceit, trickery, and murder mix with romance and gripping examples of human and animal courage in this thrilling and dramatic tale. The title story, "Mission Creek," references...

A pair of action-packed tall tales from Western master Frank Bonham. The first story, Trouble in Temescal, is set in Los Angeles in the days following the Mexican-American War, and tells the tale of two entrepreneurial mustangers, Hank Ashwood and Red Wolfe, who have driven a herd of horses from New Mexico to California for resale. But their efforts to sell the animals to one of the Mexican hacendados, Dona Julia de la Torre, owner of Rancho Temescal,...

Something tan and cylindrical struck the roof and rolled off. The men inside didn't wait for the dynamite to blow; they lurched into the sunlight, firing as they ran. A brutal war began when two bold men left Kane's mine to work their own strike. This was the final battle.

An American family moves into a fifteenth-century French castlerecently closed by government due to ghosts.

A ghetto youth and his friends hope to make money as movers buttheir venture is continually threatened by a few seeking fasterand easier ways to make money.

Tommy Kelly and his cousin Jill discover plenty of strange goings-on when they help their Uncle Mike collect and preserve marine specimans from the tide pools of the Pacific Coast.