"When Captain Jack Price of the Union Army arrives out West, he finds solid evidence that the vicious and deadly attacks on stagecoach stations between Kansas and Colorado are the work of Confederate soldiers disguised as Indians. If the attacks continue successfully, the Rebels will be able to cut the West in two and stir up enough Indian trouble to keep Union soldiers tied up indefinitely. But, before he can act, he finds himself being attacked...

"In "Drifter's Choice," Wade Pierce has no particular ambition and a reputation for irresponsibility. No one is more surprised than Pierce when he learns he has inherited his dead uncle's controlling interest in a small bank. When he is confronted by Sam Leavitt, who tries to force him to sell out, Pierce becomes stubborn. But he is not a gunman and he isn't prepared to commit murder. In "High Desert," María Mulrooney is held a virtual prisoner in...

Ken Gregory in Dead Man s Gold comes on a lynching in Ortman by a mob led by Jed Dawson. Sam Petnell is the victim. Mary Thorn of the Box-T speaks out in opposition to the hanging. Petnell is accused of horse stealing and he is innocent. Gregory takes a hand and he is able to diffuse the mob. Petnell claims he has discovered where on the Box-T Will South buried his cache of gold before heading East, where he subsequently died. Mary Thorn gives him...

"Two western stories centered around two young women whose lives are thrown into turmoil because of the men around them and the lure of gold"--

When gold fever hit the town of Gopher, no man's life was worth a plugged nickel ... Adam Patch, a young doctor, arrived at Gopher at the height of a rampaging epidemic. In trying to stop the dreaded Tonopah fever, Doctor Patch came face to face with the town's lust for gold and the fierce and fatal struggle to obtain it at any cost.

A fugitive from the law for a murder he hadn't committed, Bob Steele was held in virtual bondage to a hill country patriarch who provided protection at a high price. But then the plight of a "boughten" women forced Steele to think more of someone else's welfare than his own and a desperate flight began.

"Boyd Reynolds rode into town after three years of wandering, happy at the thought of seeing his ranch again - and Ellen Petrie. But the town had changed - drastically. Fear rode his former friends and neighbors, for Jud Laws and his hired killers had taken over, ruthlessly annexing ranches to his already enormous holdings, stealing cattle, and getting a stranglehold on the law. Anyone who balked was either killed or run out of town. And Ellen? Even...