Paul Torridon rides the fabulous steed Ashur on his way to Fort Kendry with his guide, plainsman Roger Lincoln, in The Man from the Sky. When Roger disappears one morning, Paul knows only that finding Fort Kendry by himself will be almost impossible -- and that's if he manages to survive on the empty plains. Then he comes upon ailing Cheyenne warrior Standing Bull sprawled on a small island in a dry gulch . . . On his deathbed, gunman Hank Peyton...

In "Lawman's Heart," Larry Traynor is driving a stage when his shotgun guard is killed in a holdup. He's determined to bring the thief to justice when fate intervenes. Joe Palmer in "White-Water Sam" had been a deck hand on the Thomas Drayton before the railroad came. Now the riverboat is permanently moored because her only chance for a future is to get her downstream through impossible rapids. In the title story, partners in a mining claim divide...