"In three Western stories, men are drawn into desperate situations where they are forced to use their guns to stop those who are motivated by greed"--

"In the sooty blackness of a Tucson alley, Rim Fannin got word that about twenty heavily guarded freight wagons were traveling by night toward Tubac. Rim took a job as a mule skinner for White Mountain Freight in hopes of proving that the owner, John Romaine, was the traitor responsible for his father's death. He wasn't very good with a mule whip, but he managed until his train was attacked by Indians. Captured, he was taken to Canyon de Chelly where...

A story of life on the Mississippi River a few years before the War of 1812. Owen Naylor and Charlotte Dumaine, of Natchez-Under-the-Hill, are united in their effort to put steam power on the river. Their efforts are not appreciated by the keelboat men, who fight steam with fire, violence, and murder.

Short story, Gunstorm Ghost, recounts a dramatic moment in the life of gunfighter Dan Barrister as he refuses the pressure of big rancher Lon Preebe to become one of his hired guns. In Outlaws of the Brasada, conditions are so harsh in Texas after the Civil War and with Reconstructionists imposing even harsher restrictions, Emery Bandine is desperate to protect his motherless children and gather a stake to get them out of poverty--no matter what...

"Two western stories. 'The No-Gun Marshal' in which the marshal must face a gunman, but the marshal's hand is injured and cannot hold a gun. In 'Wind River' Frank Ives has been running from Jack Border for a year and is finally forced to confront him"--

Pothooks Marrs, convicted murderer who had escaped from prison, signs on as a camp cook for the Pickle Bar spread, hoping to elude Kettle Cory, a detective who knows Marrs' past, when he discovers, too late, that Kettle is one of the Pickle Bar crew.

For centuries the Lost Santiago Mine in the Dead Horse Mountains of Texas was one of the great mysteries of the Southwest. When Chisos Owens is hired by Anse Hawkman to protect his extensive holdings, he not only finds the mine, he also discovers Elgera Douglas, who rides a magnificent Morgan palamino and is known as Senorita Scorpion. When Owens learns the story of the Douglas family and their quest to protect the Lost Santiago Mine, he joins forces...