Sheriff Jake Clay is used to trouble, and he makes his livin' from making bad men pay. After the town bank is robbed, Sheriff Jake Clay is mad—spitting mad and out for blood. He and his posse think they have cornered the robbers in a nearby dry gulch. Approaching just before dawn, with stealth they capture the culprits. Are they the real criminals...or someone else in the wrong place, at the wrong time. But in a moment of hot anger Clay makes a decision that will change the path of his life forever. Lawman has turned outlaw. Frontier justice was often swift and without mercy, this story is no exception and will keep you turning pages to the last chapter. W.R. Benton writes western fiction with blood, guts and grit of the true West.

They Risked Their Lives To Bring Cattle to Missouri. Now They Faced A Journey Twics As Dangerous... The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives. The Oregon Trail Lou Spencer, Dill Summer, and their fourteen Texas cowboys briught a herd up to Independence, Missouri, and sold half to a wagon train heading West. Then the Texans hired on, leading the battling greenhorn pioneers across the Missouri River, across Nebraska Territory, and into the wilds past Forts Laramie and Bridger. With winter closing in, Spencer's men were running out of time to reach the wide-open land of Oregon. And with a fortune in gold hidden in one of the pilgrims' wooden wagons-and outlaws circling like wolves-there were miles of shooting and dying still ahead.