Considine and his outlaw gang had robbed the Obaro bank and were headed for the border, when they crossed the trail of a beautiful girl chased by Apaches. They rode to her rescue and mounted a stand atop High Lonesome.
Clay Bell had built his spread out of an untamed wilderness, and he wasn't the type to let a ruthless and powerful man like Devitt take his timber without a bloody battle to the death.
Rye Tyler was a man to be feared in the West. His best friends were his guns. Then he met Liza, and there was a bright new light in his life--a light a ruthless outlaw tried to steal away.
Leaving behind her Virginia home burned to ashes during the Civil War and a husband killed on the way to Colorado, Mary Breydon and her young daughter come to manage a run-down stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail.
They called in the Rangers to handle the tough ones and there was never a Texas Ranger tougher or smarter than Bowdrie. He had sworn to carry out the law, but there were times when he had to carry out justice with his fists and his guns.