From Chautauqua presentations and traveling medicine shows to rodeos and the singing cowboys of the Silver Screen, the history of itinerant entertainment is as old as the frontier itself.

A young gunslinger is changed for the better by meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic range-war western, this novel features that powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision of the American West.

Whip Station, a critical stop on the Butterfield stagecoach line, is dead smack in the middle of no-man's land. The lawless call it an easy target. Joe O'Malley calls it home. If anybody can tame a wild, violent territory, it's the seasoned frontiersman. So can his family, who have with the same pride and honor coursing through their veins. Helping to plant roots is his son Jackson, a former wrangler married to a steadying force of nature. Joe's grandchildren...

Cañon walls: Smoke Bellew enters a remote Mormon settlement only a jump ahead of a posse. Working for a dowager Mormon, Smoke finds that his life undergoes a transformation and he is able to make the ranch a financial success, at the same time falling in love with her wanton daughter, Rebecca. But it is too good to last. The law follows him. Black sheep: Mary Valentine an upstart, tomboy, and general troublemaker is seeking to protect a man wanted...

After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read.

Ten full hours of bullets, bank robbers, and brotherhood from 1954, including several rare episodes.

"By the 1956-57 season, Gunsmoke had reached the peak of its dramatic power as radio's foremost adult western, with its powerful scripts and careful characterizations."... "The citizens of Dodge City, Kansas emerged as living, breathing embodiments of frontier America in radio dramas that represent the medium at its most potent. Experience 27 hard-hitting adventures from this landmark season in this 10 disc collection!"--Container.