Western Killers #61

In 1859, young Billy Bonney travels west with his family, but a run-in with a drifter named Smilin' Jack at age twelve sets him on a darker path—one that leads him to Santa Fe as the notorious Billy the Kid. When cattle barons begin consolidating control over the Pecos Valley, Billy is hired as a faction leader, but his ruthless methods and violent temperament soon spiral beyond anyone's control, drawing him into an escalating range war that pits desperate ranchers, lawmen, and his own growing gang of cutthroats against each other in a brutal showdown neither side may survive.

William Hale, a ruthless schemer operating on the Osage Indian Reservation in 1920s Oklahoma, builds a criminal empire through cattle rustling, fraudulent land claims, and insurance fraud—but his appetite for wealth and power escalates into something far darker when oil is discovered on tribal lands. As Hale's schemes grow bolder and his victims multiply, his reign of greed and violence eventually draws the attention of federal authorities determined to stop him. This true crime story chronicles how one man's relentless pursuit of money and control transformed him into a terror that would require over twenty-five FBI agents to finally bring to justice.

English Jim, a notorious forger and criminal mastermind, arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco as part of the ruthless "Sydney Ducks"—a gang of escaped Australian convicts who terrorize the city with robberies, arson, and murder. When an innocent man is arrested and convicted in Jim's place, the city erupts into chaos as the Sydney Ducks seek violent revenge, setting fires and looting the merchant quarter to prevent the execution. As the situation spirals toward tragedy, English Jim himself emerges from hiding with his own deadly plans.