From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: In the early sixties a trail led from the broad Missouri, swirling yellow and turgid between its green-groved borders, for miles and miles out upon the grassy Nebraska plains, turning westward over the undulating prairie, with its swales and billows and long, winding lines of cottonwoods, to a slow, vast heave of rising ground-Wyoming-where the herds of buffalo...

"Helen Sheppard's arrival at Fort Henry on the Ohio frontier comes at a time when outlaws are being driven from the land by determined bordermen like Jack Zane, who have no time for women in their lonely lives. There is something about Helen, however, that unsettles Zane's ways and drives him on a last trail in pursuit of the vilest and most desperate outlaws he has ever encountered on the frontier"--Back cover.

"Templeton Lambeth desperately wanted a son--an heir to ride by his side through the vast wild ranges just west of the Pecos River. But to his disappointment, his wife bears a girl. With his hopes crushed, Templeton is forced into denial, and decides to raise his daughter as if she were a boy. In honor of Lambeth's more successful brother, they name her Terrill. Upon the arrival of the Civil War, Lambeth enlists in Lee's army, leaving behind his wife...