As the deputy marshal of the U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas, well qualified Harry Cole had times when the burden of being a lawman weighed heavily on his shoulders & it became almost intolerable after he began his campaign to capture the Sutter gang. The memories of the trail of dead men returned to haunt him as he faced his wife's bitter rejection of everything he stood for.

"When Willie McGuire accidentally breaks Jeremy Hooker's leg, the gunfighter offers a $1000 reward for Willie's capture. What follows is a tale of pursuit and escape, spiced with the humorous antics of a well-intentioned but bungling cowboy"--

"For three years, Richter and his three buddies had counted themselves among the lucky - for they had been among the few men from the Confederate Army who had been able to rebuild their lives disrupted by the war. In a remote mountain valley in the barren Southwest, they had discovered an area rich in potential for raising cattle. Richter and his companions had worked hard to build their small spread into what could easily become a big cattle ranch....

They were cat and mouse. Antagonists in a deadly game of survival, Ward Cameron and William Olive were linked together by the most fearful word in the West: bounty. Olive was a thrice-hardened Foreign Legionnaire turned bounty-hunter. And Cameron was a fugitive with a newly minted price on his head. An ex-Confederate officer, Cameron had murdered a carpet bagger tax-collector in a fit of rage. As if punished by the gods, he was pursued by a man seeking...