Linford Western Library
7 total works
When two young gaolbirds were at last released, they had but one thought in mind: to seek revenge against the man who had betrayed them. However, the flame of vengeance is fickle, and sparks from it can alight wherever the tinder of resentment is dry and waiting, setting the land into a sudden conflagration. So, it was in that hot summer, when men raised their eyes to see the dead past come alive into a terrible present, where old wounds reopened, and guns blazed to settle old scores. Many were drawn into the smoke and flame of the final battle. But such was the carnage that few would emerge unscathed.
When young Hal Coburn came back from the long and savage Civil War, he hoped for a return to his old life and to live in peace. Instead, he found a deadly homecoming of hostility and subdued anger, and a dark cloud of a memory that still haunted the minds of all who looked at him. Justice and revenge are often hard to separate and where there is no help from the law only the gun can even the score. The price for Hal was high. All his future life lay scattered before him in blood and gold across a trail that led only into the dark. Bushwhacking seems a low way of searching for justice but sometimes it looks like the only way of bringing some right where there was none before. The result can be as savage as war itself.
Drawing pictures of hard cases on Wanted notices was a tedious task for young Nick Paget. But when he was suddenly asked to draw one that exactly fitted his own description, he resolved to meet the challenge head on and, branded as a murderer, rode back into the storm of trouble he thought he had left behind. Soon he discovered the storm had reached hurricane proportions and that the peaceful shores of Bluewater Lake were lashed with deceit, lies and naked lust for gold. Nick faced drowning in a quagmire of evil. Sudden death was all around him. Now, in a savage battle, with the innocent dying alongside the guilty, he must face his enemies gun to gun.
After the Civil War ended young Jerry Bryce headed for the Bakula River where a gold rush was in progres s. Here he found that the bitter legacy of the war burned on and his thirst for justice and humanity was severely put to the test. '