An ailing lieutenant is recalled from sick leave in order to nursemaid three-hundred Comanche prisoners.

Former soldier Jesse Wilder was branded a traitor and disinherited for choosing to serve in the Union army after being captured at the battle of Shiloh. He went West and became a hired gun, first training the Juáristas in Mexico, then running paramilitary missions for the U.S. army; and now, exhausted and enervated from constant fighting, he's drifted up into the Arizona Territory. But there remains no respite: a young mother has beseeched Jesse...

Dude McQuinn is at it one more time. He's got himself one hell of a horse. A real flyer named Judge Blair. Better than that, he's got the smoothest snake-oil salesman in the country, Billy Lockhart, as his trainer; and he's got his old Comanche pal, Coyote Walking, as his jockey. Best of all, he's got a sucker. A feller willing to lay two to one that Judge Blair will finish second in a two-horse race. Race day comes, Judge Blair wins by daylight,...

A sensitive young artist. Paul Benedict, had gone West from Baltimore to paint the Indians in their primitive state. He got a closer look than he had counted on when he was captured and held as a slave by a band of Kiowas.

"There were few horse breeders in the West to equal Lee Banner: the man was a born horseman who took any job he could find to keep his small Oklahoma spread going and to help him fulfill his lifelong dream of seeing one of his two-year-olds in the All-American Winners Circle. A few years back Banner was certain he had a winner in Land Rush; then in mid-season the black stallion went down in a three-horse tangle on a muddy track. It had been a costly,...

For most folks, home is a refuge, but not for Jesse Wilder. Because he was forced to serve in the Union Army or die, the people in his home state of Tennessee see him as a galvanized Yankee. Also, the night raiders terrorizing his homestead will do whatever it takes to run him back out of town--even commit murder.