Young Tom Shanaghy was hardheaded and hard-muscled. As a stranger in a small Kansas town, he pins on the badge of marshal. But facing down a vengeful trail driver and a murderous gang of gold thieves would take more iron than even Shanaghy has.
Trail boss Otis Chancy was only nineteen when he fought against crooked sheriffs, deadly gunmen, and renegade Indians and in the end he was the boss of his own cattle outfit.
As the only survivors of an Indian attack on their wagon train, young Hardy Collins and little Betty Sue struggle to survive and find help on the deserted prairie.
A novelist and his old Korean War buddy investigate the murder of his friend's two brothers and the mysterious connection to the massacre of twenty-seven men almost ninety years earlier.