The following stories are a collection of Clint Clay's previously published books. Stories of the west and the men and women who lived there.J.D. Brown's Long Ride J.D, Brown is about a sheriff who had been a lawman most of his life, but like a lot of lawmen he faced disappointment. After a near death experience he decides to make some changes. The Prairie Bob Rossie U.S. MarshalMy old horse had just stepped into a gopher hole the poor girl now had a broken leg. I had had her, for a while now several years. She had been about 6 when I had gotten her. Sandy was a sorrel Tennessee Foxtrotted. I knew what I had to do. I didn't want too. I took a piece of peppermint candy from my pocket and unwrapped it and gave it to her. She had always loved the candy. I pulled my Smith and Wesson revolver, and placed the barrel between her eyes, and eased the trigger back ending her pain forever. WhiskeyIt was early spring and the March wind was blowing strong causing Red Dozer to duck his head against it. The rain had stopped just an hour a go and the wind was chilling him to the bone. The rain slicker that had been new a year ago was now worn out and was just better than nothing at all. He had ridden all night long across the lonesome Indian Territory of the Cherokee Strip. Following the north star was impossible on the cloudy rain filled night. He was afraid to stop even in the rain where it was less likely he would be pursued. Red was dirty, weary and scared when he entered the little town of South Mound Kansas. He was glad to have made it in the starless night he had been more than lucky. This was just a small farming community the town had just the basics a church, a few stores and saloon with hotel and café then a few scattered houses. This is where he had lived all his short life all twenty years before he had run off with a gang of outlaws. Red was glad to be home and he was glad he had gotten away alive.Sheriff Clayton JamesThe weather wore old sheriff waited by the fire. He listened to the rain as it beat on the old tin roof. Getting up Clayton goes for a pan to sit under a new leak. The rhythm of the rain as it strikes the tin roof along with the crackling of the fire, and the ping of drops in the pan had a soothing affect. He lights a cigar and takes a drink of the strong black coffee. Jane had gone to bed earlier and lay naked sleeping in the bed next to him.Hand on the IronHand on The Iron is about FBI agent Dolson O'Banyon who finds himself in the least desirable assignment due to messing up on a big case. Dolson finds himself west of the Mississippi in 1939 on an Indian reservation investigating the serial killings of twelve young women. He had never been west of the Mississippi before and now thought he was in the wild west. Thinking he had stepped back in time for he saw more horse and wagon traffic than automobiles. O'Banyon felt more out of place than he had felt while working undercover in the Garvonnie mob family. Brogan the Bounty HunterA western frontier adventure about bounty hunter Brandon Brogan. He has had a difficult life and as a bounty hunter he has made few friends. What few friends he has seem to be becoming fewer. He misses a life he once had and sees a glance into the happiness he once knew in a single woman and her Indian child. Bringing in who he thought would be his last bounty he heads back east in search of the life he once had. Those plans briefly interrupted when the woman and child he had planned to take with him suddenly change their mind. Brogan finds himself again traveling alone and facing depressing memories that could prove fatalThe Long Hot SummerCattle rustlers are robbing cattle in the high country of Wyomia. Two young lovers catch them in the act and foil their plans. The sheriff is called in and an investigation is underway to find the perpetrator's. The kids from neighboring ranches find their selves in the middle of a gun battle.