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After a controversial mission ruins his military career, Art Jensen receives a secret assignment against terrorist sleeper cells in America. Operating alone, he must confront a network backed by a wealthy Saudi prince.

When a bus carrying American schoolgirls is hijacked in Mexico, veteran Tom Brannon learns that his niece is among the hostages. He recruits former soldiers from his family to mount a rescue against a powerful crime lord.

Falcon MacCallister agrees to transport a valuable Arabian horse from San Francisco to Laramie. An escaped convict with a grudge follows him, turning the journey into a dangerous confrontation involving outlaws and two women.

Falcon MacCallister expects a family reunion when his actor brother and sister visit Colorado. Their kidnapping by an outlaw seeking ransom forces him to organize a rescue against a heavily armed enemy.

Raised by Smoke Jensen after outlaws murdered his family, eighteen-year-old Matt Cavanaugh sets out to find the man responsible. His search leads toward Perdition, where his desire for revenge puts his survival at risk.

Preacher refuses to guide a group of Eastern travelers through the Rockies, but their expedition soon runs into trouble. With a friend caught between outlaws and an ambush, he must enter the wilderness to help.

Veteran Phil Cody organizes a peaceful protest when San Antonio temporarily grants Mexico control of the Alamo for a celebration. An extremist plan to seize it permanently leaves Cody and fellow veterans facing an armed siege.

Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves help a stagecoach carrying women led by Charity McAllister. Their intervention draws them into a frontier town’s conflict, where an old enemy and uncertain loyalties complicate their efforts.

After stopping a train robbery, Matt Jensen receives a reward from Colorado’s governor. When the same outlaws kidnap the governor’s niece, Matt follows their trail toward Braggadocio to bring her home.

Former Special Forces soldier John McCabe is shopping in a Texas superstore on Black Friday when terrorists strike. With shoppers trapped and a hidden nuclear threat looming, he must draw on his military experience.

Two cousins hire Preacher to guide a wagon train west and establish a trading business. A mysterious woman joins the expedition, adding secrets and tension as outlaws threaten the travelers he has promised to protect.

A gunfight in Purgatory leaves Matt Jensen sentenced to hang in Yuma Prison. When his prison train derails, he faces a difficult choice between running for freedom and trusting the marshal pursuing him.

Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves stay in Sweet Apple, Texas, to help its new marshal. Their interest in the daughters of feuding cattlemen pulls them into a bitter local rivalry that complicates keeping the peace.

Sent to dangerous Sweet Apple by an uncle who wants him dead, Seymour Standish develops an alarming confidence in his own safety. Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves arrive as outlaws, gunfighters, and revolutionaries converge.

A proposed railroad divides the Colorado town of Higbee, where the Clinton family hires a killer to oppose Garrison Wade’s plans. Falcon MacCallister owes Wade a debt and must face the gunman threatening the project.

An ambush costs Falcon MacCallister a man and two Gatling guns entrusted to the Colorado Home Guard. His pursuit leads into eastern Montana, where recovering the weapons becomes increasingly dangerous as conflict gathers near Little Bighorn.

A murderous preacher escapes on the road to his hanging in Yuma and kidnaps a young woman. Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves follow him toward a hideout guarded by his devoted followers.

Preacher disguises himself to investigate a St. Louis power broker using violence to dominate the fur trade. When his enemy heads into the wilderness with hired fighters, Preacher must follow and confront the growing threat.

Pursued by criminals seeking revenge, Preacher encounters a woman trying to bring a railway to a remote settlement. Threats against the settlers draw him into another dangerous struggle while his own enemies remain close behind.

A missing military aircraft and a secret shipment of nerve gas place the Dog Team on two dangerous trails. Colonel Joe Kilroy tracks agents near the border while Steve Ireland confronts the threat aboard a train.

Matt Jensen promises to deliver money to a dead friend’s brother, but his journey through Arizona brings an urgent rescue. A wealthy traveler’s kidnapped wife needs help while the outlaw who killed Matt’s friend follows him.

Cotton Pickens enters Swamp Creek, a Montana mining district where powerful men have little use for the law. A teenage widow caught among outlaws and a stranded railway car complicate his effort to restore order.

Conrad Browning travels to New Mexico to visit his wife’s grave. His former fiancée, blaming him for her father’s death and their broken engagement, sends hired gunmen after him, turning mourning into a fight for survival.

Successful businessman Conrad Browning has kept his connection to gunfighter Frank Morgan quiet. When his wife is kidnapped, he must draw on his father’s dangerous skills to find her and confront the people responsible.

Traveling toward Mexico, Conrad Morgan encounters treasure hunters whose search brings gunfire. In New Mexico’s waterless Jornada del Muerto, he must protect his companions while facing both armed pursuers and the danger of thirst.

A home invasion and its legal aftermath provoke a crisis in Home, Texas. As national authorities and drug cartels bring new threats, police chief Wade Bonner becomes involved in the town’s struggle to defend itself.

In a Kansas town that bans liquor, Matt Bodine befriends a moonshining family while Sam Two Wolves joins the law. Their divided loyalties become dangerous when a ruthless bootlegger and hired gunmen threaten Cottonwood.

A former sea captain inherits a Texas ranch, but an old pirate enemy threatens his land and niece. Conrad Morgan becomes involved in the feud, where grievances from a sea battle have followed the men inland.

Cotton Pickens investigates a condemned killer after the man’s wealthy relatives challenge the verdict. With rival factions determined to hang or free the prisoner, the sheriff must uncover the truth before the execution proceeds.

Mistaken for an escaped prisoner, Kid Morgan is locked up in Hell Gate. A proposed escape offers a chance at freedom, but finding the real killer and deciding whom to trust remain dangerous problems.

A young woman takes a dying banker’s treasure map and finds herself accused of murder by a crooked sheriff. Falcon MacCallister searches for her while treasure hunters and a hired killer follow the same trail.

Matt Jensen helps an old friend save the large Idaho ranch she has inherited from mounting debt. A relative coveting the property sends killers posing as law officers, turning her effort to keep the ranch into a struggle for survival.

Members of the Dog Team are being systematically murdered. Survivors Joe Kilroy and Steve Ireland gather their remaining comrades to confront a powerful cartel with a private army and discover who is targeting them.

An outlaw former colonel uses a cannon to rob trains, prompting a railroad owner to seek Conrad Morgan’s help. After the gang attacks civilians, Morgan infiltrates the criminals to stop their campaign.

Smoke Jensen, Matt Jensen, and Preacher face hired killers surrounding a remote cabin. Behind the attack stand cattle barons trying to seize land from homesteaders and Native communities, forcing the three men to defend their neighbors.

Duff MacCallister joins a winter cattle drive from Dodge City to Fort Worth with Smoke and Matt Jensen. A fatal shooting brings pursuit, while rustlers and a blizzard threaten their chances of making it home for Christmas.

An Arizona ambush leaves Matt Bodine wounded while Sam Two Wolves pursues the attacking gang. With Matt recovering in a Navajo village, Sam uncovers gunrunning that threatens a wider conflict and puts both men in danger.

Conrad Browning searches San Francisco’s red-light district for his kidnapped twins. A crime lord and a mob feud stand between him and his children, while his father Frank Morgan joins the rescue effort.

Matt Jensen answers a plea from the newspaper editor who once saved him from an unjust hanging. A powerful English lord is using hired killers to intimidate the Dakota Territories, giving Matt a chance to repay his debt.

After killing a sheriff’s son while protecting a woman in Scotland, Duff MacCallister escapes to America. He seeks a fresh start with his cousins, but pursuing deputies and hired killers threaten to carry the old conflict across the Atlantic.

A railroad profiteer steals Paiute land and frames Matt Jensen for murder in Nevada Territory. With Matt facing a hanging, Smoke and Preacher ride toward a fight against the men protecting the scheme.

Searching for his missing children, Conrad Browning enters a high-stakes poker tournament in Denver. A cattle baron plans to lure him into the wilderness for a human hunt, turning a card game into a fight for survival.

Robbed and stripped of his sheriff's job, Cotton Pickens watches a stage company's arrival divide Doubtful, Wyoming. Murder, a bank explosion, and an interfering lawman convince him that someone is using the uproar to seize control.

Falcon MacCallister and Buffalo Bill Cody answer a government request to return west. Violence, a land baron's greed, and treachery within the Army threaten a territory where keeping the peace has become a deadly challenge.

In this political thriller, an extremist takeover leaves America under a new regime. Army major and helicopter pilot Jake Lantz gathers soldiers and other resistance fighters, establishing Firebase Freedom as a base for fighting back.

A wealthy trader hires Preacher to protect goods and travelers along the Santa Fe Trail. Outlaws, Comanche attacks, and a formidable grizzly threaten the wagon train, forcing its guide to meet danger at every turn.

After the Civil War, former Union soldier Sam Heller and ambitious gunman Johnny Cross arrive in Hangtree, Texas. Valuable land and mineral deposits draw violence, placing the two newcomers on opposing sides of the town's struggle.

Crossing Utah, Conrad Browning helps a Mormon woman fleeing a forced marriage and armed pursuers. Her past complicates the rescue, drawing the Loner into a conflict where appearances offer little protection from bullets.

A mistaken identity and an old prison escape put a bounty on the Loner's head. Help from two women offers a way out of jail, but freedom brings a land war and more killers on his trail.

Conrad Browning learns he has twins he has never met and heads east to find them. His former fiancée's secrecy and hired killers lead him toward a Kansas town where greed keeps his children hidden.

Sam Heller and Johnny Cross can barely tolerate each other, but their divided town needs both men. With Red Hand's attacks moving toward Hangtree, the rivals must cooperate to defend a place already torn by violence.

Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves learn that wagon guards have kidnapped six girls and taken them toward Mexico. Their rescue mission pits them against slave traders and an Apache war party along the route.

An outlaw attack traps Matt Jensen's train beneath an avalanche shortly before Christmas. While Smoke Jensen and Duff MacCallister race to help, Matt must protect the stranded passengers from armed men, hunger, and freezing mountain weather.

Shawn O'Brien searches for a missing schoolteacher and discovers she has been taken by slave traders. With two unlikely allies, he heads toward the Mexican coast, where a confrontation with the captors threatens to become a battle.

The Loner joins a posse pursuing Warren Latch's outlaws across West Texas. When the quarry fights back, dwindling allies and doubts about his companions leave him caught in a running battle with betrayal close behind.

Conrad Browning tries to help aging marshal Jared Tate, whose failing memory leaves him vulnerable. In Kansas Territory, the Loner takes on both Tate's enemies and the dangers created by a good lawman's troubled mind.

A newspaper reporter calls Falcon MacCallister to Sorrento, Texas, to expose corrupt executions. Working as a marshal, Falcon becomes the next man sentenced to hang and must confront the powerful men controlling the town.

Jake Lantz's resistance group operates from Pleasure Island as a new regime tightens its grip on America. While electricity is offered in exchange for allegiance, the rebels try to build an underground network and reclaim vital resources.

Katherine Lupo believes someone freed her train-robber father to use him in another crime, then murdered him. A Texas Ranger recruits the Loner to infiltrate the operation, where uncovering its leader means risking his own life.

After a wagon train is attacked and four women are captured, the Loner follows their trail across the Rio Grande. He joins scalp hunters to reach them before a slave trader does, entering a dangerous alliance.

Rafe Kingston arrives at the O'Brien ranch with a senator's letter claiming ownership of their land. Backed by five dangerous gunmen, the former bounty hunter threatens four brothers determined to defend their home against his legal and armed pressure.

Matt Jensen accepts a rancher's plea for help against the Yellow Kerchief Gang in Wyoming. The outlaws hold a young British visitor hostage, making every shot dangerous in a siege already complicated by betrayal.

Preacher spends the winter with an Assiniboine band in Montana, until old enemy Willie Deaver arms attackers against them. After a devastating raid, Preacher joins the survivors in a struggle against the men responsible.

Preacher joins Wiley Courtland's horse drive toward Fort Gifford, facing attacks along the way. Reaching the fort offers little safety as Red Knife's warriors gather outside and jealousy and betrayal weaken the defenses within.

Patrick O'Brien is accused of murdering a farmer's wife, and even his lawyer becomes a target. His brothers hunt the real killer while hired gunmen pressure their ranch, leaving little time to save him from hanging.

A drug cartel terrorizes a West Texas mobile-home community while the authorities retreat. The residents choose military veteran John Howard Stark to lead their defense, forcing him to protect his neighbors against a powerful criminal enemy.

Suspended NYPD detective John Ward travels to Colorado to visit his former wife and daughter. In Basalt, he discovers a militant conspiracy and begins investigating the training camps and plans hidden behind the town's quiet appearance.

Driven from Texas after the Civil War, Shamus O'Brien establishes a ranch in New Mexico with his four sons. Their shared dream draws them into battles against rustlers and bandits in a territory where law offers little protection.

Duff MacCallister plans to build his Wyoming ranch with Scottish black Angus cattle bought in Kansas City. A killer and an indebted banker threaten the purchase, putting Duff's savings and hopes for a new life at risk.

Masked riders terrorize Recoil, and Shamus O'Brien helps the sheriff defend the town. Meanwhile, bandits target the family ranch, leaving his sons facing another attack as the O'Briens struggle to protect both home and neighbors.

German immigrants fleeing pursuers cross the Jensens' Colorado ranch, and the family agrees to help them reach Wyoming. Their leader's hidden past and uncertainty about the attackers turn the escort into a journey full of dangerous questions.

Doubtful, Wyoming, bans alcohol, leaving Sheriff Cotton Pickens caught between bootleggers, vigilantes, and temperance campaigners. When another ban threatens more unrest, he must hold the town together while hostility toward the new laws grows.

Jamie Ian MacCallister leads an immigrant wagon train from Missouri toward Montana, promising arrival by Christmas. Storms, rough country, and attacks threaten the journey, bringing Preacher and Smoke Jensen into the settlers' fight to reach their new homes.

This western imagines Butch Cassidy surviving Bolivia and returning to Texas under a new name. His effort to settle on a ranch collides with a corrupt railroad baron, drawing him back toward another dangerous train robbery.

Three resistance armies approach Jake Lantz and Bob Varney at Firebase Freedom, seeking a united effort against America's new rulers. Their coalition must prepare for a major confrontation with a regime strengthened by support from abroad.

Boyd Ackerman's trained raiders murder Falcon MacCallister's nephew by marriage and kidnap his niece. Falcon and his brothers pursue the gang, facing disciplined killers whose military experience has defeated every lawman sent against them.

An ambush near Fort Laramie leaves an officer's wife captive and a surviving soldier telling a false story. Duff MacCallister joins the pursuit, risking a confrontation with Yellow Hawk to bring the woman back.

Freed from prison by an outlaw friend, Flintlock joins a hunt for a valuable golden bell in a remote monastery. Reaching the Arizona treasure means surviving dangerous encounters and companions whose motives are far from trustworthy.

Preacher disappears during a conflict with a railroad baron in the Dakotas. Smoke and Matt Jensen head toward Hammerhead, where infiltration and help from honest townspeople may offer their only chance against the colonel's hired killers.

Former CIA agent Wild Bill Elliott is assigned to destroy a terrorist camp linked to a Mexican drug cartel. He recruits hardened prisoners for the mission, then must turn them into a force capable of surviving it.

Sheriff Cotton Pickens struggles to keep order in Doubtful, Wyoming, while deputy Rusty Irons faces the kidnapping of his mail-order brides. Traveling hucksters add trouble, and a sudden eruption of violence puts both lawmen's survival at risk.

Matt Jensen witnesses a marshal's murder in Shady Rest and kills the attacker in self-defense. When dressmaker Annabel O'Callahan becomes the new marshal, the dead gunman's vengeful friends and relatives threaten the fragile peace she has established.

After killing a rancher's son in self-defense, Doc Holliday seeks refuge with Jacob O'Brien. The dead man's father pursues revenge, forcing the O'Brien family to weigh the danger of sheltering Doc against the threat of a relentless enemy.

Sam Heller falls for newcomer Julia Pepperday, unaware that she intends to take his fortune. Supported by her outlaw father's gang, Julia threatens Hangtree, leaving Johnny Cross to recognize the danger and prepare to defend the town.

Dooley Monahan hopes to collect a reward in Phoenix and head toward a gold strike. Instead, unexpected companions, frontier dangers and the vengeful brothers of an outlaw he killed keep pulling his journey in a different direction.

William 'Wild Bill' Longley seizes control of Comanche Crossing after a series of killings that includes its lawmen. His violent rule faces a challenge from bounty hunter Tam Sullivan, whose own deadly experience makes a confrontation increasingly dangerous.

Duff MacCallister captures two brothers after the murder of the mayor's family near Chug Water. Their escape and a diphtheria outbreak threaten the town's Christmas, drawing visiting Smoke, Sally and Matt Jensen into a desperate struggle to help.

Wounded Texas Ranger Hank Cannan arrives in Last Chance and finds its residents terrorized by cattle baron Abraham Hacker. Determined to challenge his control, Cannan prepares the town to fight for its land and freedom despite the danger.

A major poker tournament brings dangerous gamblers to Tombstone, where John Slaughter already faces a rancher's angry posse. When murder disrupts the games and implicates an Englishwoman, the lawman must contend with several crises threatening the town's peace.

This fictionalized account follows John Wesley Hardin from his first killing as a teenager into a life pursued by lawmen and federal troops. His growing reputation attracts rival gunfighters and enemies eager to challenge the notorious outlaw.

Flintlock is hired to protect a man acquitted of murdering a schoolteacher but still carrying a large bounty on his head. Suspecting innocence, the bounty hunter investigates powerful enemies while facing the dangers that killed his client's previous guard.

Duff MacCallister stops a bank robbery and arrests Johnny Taylor's brother, provoking a campaign of revenge against Chugwater. As Taylor's gang threatens civilians and takes a hostage, Duff must find a way to stop the killings without surrendering justice.

Luke Jensen captures Mordecai Kroll, but the outlaw's gang ambushes him during the journey toward justice. Smoke Jensen, Matt and Preacher enter the fight to rescue Luke, confronting dangerous enemies who turn the family mission into a battle.

During trapping season in the Rockies, Preacher encounters Jebediah Druke's gang and the dangerous warrior Blood Eye. Their hostility turns the trail into a hunting ground, forcing the mountain man to prepare for enemies determined to track him down.

Preacher guards a riverboat carrying traders, a senator and Prussian royalty toward Yellowstone. Pirates and an ambush threaten the journey, and the capture of a nobleman's family sends him into pursuit while a traitor complicates the rescue.

Two marauding gangs descend on Hangtree County amid the turmoil of the Texas-Mexico border in 1866. Outnumbered, Sam Heller and Johnny Cross consider turning the raiders against each other, with an army howitzer offering another chance to defend their community.

Army Ranger Lucas Kincaid is working at a Texas prison when attackers try to free jailed terrorists. With a high school team held hostage, he organizes survivors and prisoners into a resistance force despite official demands that he surrender.

New Cochise County sheriff John Slaughter tries to restore order around Tombstone. A silver discovery draws townsmen away, leaving the streets vulnerable to outlaws, and the kidnapping of his wife turns his battle to protect the community intensely personal.

A Mexican rancher and an unusual breed of cattle bring opportunity to John Slaughter's ranch, but betrayal and a stalking killer threaten his guest. An attack on the property reveals further dangers gathering beyond the business venture.

Widowed Kate Kerrigan leaves poverty and memories of war in Tennessee, taking her five children toward West Texas. Their thousand-mile journey crosses dangerous frontier country, testing the family's resolve as they seek a better life and land of their own.