Will Ermine

Yancey was the eighth to go out in gunsmoke as murder multiplied in the gold-rush town of Rock Creek. Maybe Yancey knew who was fingering the lucky prospectors in the diggin's at Rustlers' Bend. It was Sheriff Kize Farraday's guess that one gang of blacklegs was responsible, and he, too, had to die to prove his hunch. But his daughter Iris and hard-riding deputy Jim Lord took up the bloody trail and put their lives on the line for vengeance.

With their cowboy days behind them -- though they'd never get the cow smell out of their Levi's -- and Pinkerton badges in their pockets, Bill Robuck, Happy Jack Dean, and Laughing Ed Leffler ride the owlhoot trails from Canada to Mexico, a collective scourge to desperadoes and rustlers. They live by the code "one for all and all for one" until they arrive in Flathead and a treacherous trail opens before them, proving to Robuck that even a partner can't be trusted. Robuck rides that trail to its last long mile, and transforms it into a trail of vengeance. His work done, embittered as only a man who's been sold out by his best friend can be, he's ready to move on, weary of gunsmoke and wanting only to forget. But the days of drifting and moving on are over, for in that valley of treachery lives the girl who's the end of all trails for him.

"Deputy Marshal Dick Marr in Northern Oklahoma has his work cut out for him when the girl he loves joins up with outlaw Britt Morgan and his gang"--

Salem Hardesty was on the move. Ever since his boys had been attacked by the Sioux, Salem suspected Rafe Perrine of smuggling guns to the Indians. Now ... with Glenna's father gone ... he was sure. Salem wanted Perrine and his gang of rustlers ... and he wanted them dead!