Sheriff of Tombstone #5

Sheriff Luke Spade suspects that smooth-talking Emery Calhoun is running a stock swindle on Tombstone's citizens, but his warnings about the bogus mining scheme only make the townsfolk turn against him—they're convinced Calhoun will make them rich. When Spade arrests Calhoun after a street confrontation, he's forced to let the con man escape, gambling that Calhoun's desperation to flee town will finally prove his guilt to everyone. Now Spade must track down the swindler before Calhoun vanishes with the money he's bilked from the hopeful miners.

Luke Spade, Sheriff of Tombstone, finds himself in a desperate fight with fugitive Gringo Evans near a raging river—but when the two tumble into the water, a blow to the head leaves Luke with complete amnesia. Believing himself to be Evans based on a wallet he finds, the amnesiac sheriff infiltrates the outlaw's gang, unaware of his true identity. Now the real lawmen are closing in, and Luke must navigate a dangerous game where one wrong move could expose him—or worse.

"Giant of the West" traces the natural history of the mighty grizzly bear—a creature that once roamed the American frontier in massive herds, feared by every animal around it and matched only by man's rifle. From its hunting prowess and surprising appetite for honey to its legendary strength and peculiar limitations, this 1959 account reveals the remarkable life of a now-vanished giant that shaped the untamed West.

Sheriff Luke Spade faces a troubling pattern: prisoners keep escaping from the Tombstone jail, and the braggart Clay Willson swears he'll get out no matter what precautions are taken. When Willson vanishes again despite doubled guards and personal inspections, Spade suspects an inside operation—and sets a daring trap by taking an escaped outlaw's place in a cell to uncover who's running the jailbreaks. What he discovers behind bars reveals a scheme far more cunning than anyone expected.