"Like many a veteran of the Civil War, Cap McKenna went west to build a new life. Thanks to a fortuitous meeting with J. Stuart Reynolds, owner of the Reynolds Overland Transportation Company, McKenna's homestead in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains was selected as a change station for the horse teams on the run between Denver and Cheyenne. Out riding one day, McKenna comes across an abandoned infant, whom he takes in and cares for until the baby's...

When a ranch hand steals his daughter's pony, Gideon Coopersmith sets out after him but is chased off by the hand's mother, Ruth, who seeks vengeance against Gideon when her son is killed shortly thereafter by a band of renegades.

The future looked bright for Matt McLeod. He was an outrider for the Two-Bar Ranch, hired to protect the ranch from poachers. Then he saw Riley Wilcox in the Denver jail and everything changed.

Benjamin Fox's father was legendary Confederate General John Fox, the southern hero who, still in uniform in 1865, rode into Richmond and robbed the Atlanta bank and Trust. He fled, leaving his wife an infant son behind, and became one of the West's most notorious outlaws. In 1882, when young Benjamin set out from Richmond to find his elusive heritage, he didn't know what he would find.

"Twelve traditional Western stories set in Oregon and Colorado about lawmen, gunfighters, cattlemen, sheepmen, businessmen, lawyers, teachers, stubborn old men and independent women"--