"Three western stories where unlikely heroes struggle with their consciences and desires to discover where true values lie"--

When Alabama Joe drifted into Fort Anxious, he seemed to be a shiftless, easygoing tramp. But he didn't fool Stanley Parker. He'd gunned down the notorious Bob Dillman. He'd known that one day Dillman's outlaw partner would appear to avenge death. The Stingaree was fast on the draw and deadly as a snake. Parker knew he'd have to draw first or die! Here are the perils of hired guns and wilderness traps and a bitter conflict with his own code of honor....

"After serving two years in Folsom Prison, Blondy Kitchin lands in Sour Creek Valley where his brute strength gets him a job managing a ranch where he has to deal with an out of control bunch of cowboys, ruthless rustlers, and a savvy Mexican youngster he picked up in town to act as his mozo"--

In Master and Man, Bobbie is a black man who can outride, outfight, and outshoot any white man in the mountain desert. His unwavering moral code serves as a model for his often cruel and dissolute white master. A Lucky Dog is a tale of desperate flight by a jewel thief named Hagger from the man he robbed. In Colorado, facing a battle with winter cold and snow, he comes upon an isolated cabin and its sole occupant, a weakened bull terrier left there...

Rusty Sabin was a child when Cheyene Indians raided the Sabin homestead, killing his mother. Raised by Indians, known as Red Hawk, he has no recollection of his white father. His only goal is to kill Wind Walker, the white enemy of the Cheyenne and restore his reputation among the people who abandoned him when he was 15 after refusing to take part in their compulsory brutal initiation.

"In three western stories, men risk their hero status in the community in order for truth to prevail."