Ashe Colby, an Arizona Ranger, poses as bank robber in order to uncover a huge gang of counterfeiters, but soon finds himself a prisoner of the gang

Ward Cutler rode Southward to the town of Shenandoah, where his widowed sister lived. It was a letter from her that had brought him. She had given a man named Henry Gore her savings, but he had responded by striking her. And now Ward was looking for Gore and more.

Three men met in the little New Mexico cow2town of Shafter. The only thing they had in common was that each rider had an ivory butt on his sixgun. They had robbed a bank in Laraime, Wyoming, and had previously arranged to meet in isolated, insular Shafter. But the fates that pull at men decreed that each of those three riders would end one phase of his life in Shafter, and begin another phase-and before this all happened, there would be a gunfight....

Seward City was in roughshod, chaotic Dakota Territory. The day he arrived by stage, Jud Parker looked impressive, physically a big man, dressed in the best clothing with a tall silk hat. Despite appearances, however, in his pocket he had less than one hundred dollars. Renting a dingy room for ten dollars a week seemed like a fortune to Jud. Yet there was a restlessness here that Jud had noticed imbued the entire countryside. Banker Heber Caldwell...