The good old shoot 'em-up westerns still ride the range, and this collection is the first in the E.R. Slade Omnibus.A WAGON LOAD OF GOLDJeremy Waite is offered a quarter of a wagonload of gold in return for his services as a gunhand in recovering it. "Are you fast?" asked Leanda. Jeremy was fast enough to empty his gun into the side of a barn before it could rot away, but why should he elaborate to Leanda about that? The prospect of getting rich made Jeremy disinclined to question much ... until things heated up and he had to confront the girl's gun-fast boyfriend.GUNMAN'S GOLDMistaken for the notorious outlaw Chuck Riley, Clint Lee Calloway was arrested and sentenced to hang. But somehow he managed to break out of jail and escape into the desert. Now, thirsty and exhausted, he comes on Riley and his gang trying to make Carmen Haversam reveal the whereabouts of her dead father's gold. Lee isn't the man to slip away quietly, though he knows riding to the rescue will buy him plenty of trouble.THE MAN IN THE BIG FOUR HATIke Clauson has taken over the town of Taylorville , made himself marshal, and told the council it won't cost them a cent, so long as they don't interfere with him or his high-stakes gambling den. But he has a younger brother who runs wild , and one day the Kid kills storekeeper Bailey. Ben Gordon, in town for supplies, ends up trying to help Bailey's daughter Nancy keep her inheritance, and herself, out of the clutches of Ike Clauson, whose gun-handling abilities no one but Ben is willing to confront.THE DOLAN DEBTA tale of two brothers: Coe Dolan is a hardworking, easygoing cowpoke; brother Pete is a con man, swindler and cardsharp who plays one hand too many out of his sleeve and gets himself shot dead. Coe never approved of his brother, but when he realizes Pete 's gone missing he feels obligated to find out what happened—though the deputy tells him to leave town and the sheriff turns up murdered.