Cowboy Petey McGuire has been kicked around so much that he's turned forlorn, self - despairing and gun - shy. Yet starvation has a way of changing a man and so, armed only with his attitude and a hungry belly, Petey finds his way to the headquarters of the Arizona Rangers looking for a job.Petey also finds a new ornery personality; he claims to be the toughest man around from Kansas City to N'Orleans, a man so tough he'd give a rattler nightmares. But when the chief Ranger, Captain Shannon, calls Petey's bluff and sends him after the most dangerous desperado in the state, Petey must discover what it really means to be Ranger - tough. ALSO INCLUDES THE WESTERN STORIES ''THE RANCH THAT NO ONE WOULD BUY'' AND ''SILENT PARDS'' - True West