"Hal Graydon had come to Tiempo to build a fence, but a lot of powerful people led by Jack Zorn were against it. Hal was hoping for a peaceful compromise until his best friend was bushwhacked. So the fence-haters got their war...and a lot more they'd never reckoned on"--

Lawrence E. Crane, troubleshooter for the Chicago & Far Western Railroad, rode into Warbow prepared for the worst. Urgently summoned by the local land agent for the railroad, Crane found the town on the brink of explosive violence. A troop of calvalry stationed there refused to heed the local lawman, and more and more often there were clashed between soldiers and civilians. Bitterness had been growing, and tempers were further strained by a recent...

"Dan Mitchell had been out of the cavalry for five years when he suddenly received an urgent message from his old commanding officer. Colonel Ames needed him fast and needed him bad, for he knew Dan could do some cool thinking and fast gunslinging. Dan knew it meant trouble with a fast fuse. But he never dreamed he'd find the whole Sioux reservation sizzling with war talk. If the Sioux donned war paint, the whole territory would be alive with singing...