Reckoning at Yankee Flat

"The Montana Territory in the 1850s was a wide-open empire where some men fought and killed for the richest gold strike of the West, while others struggled to bring law and order to the untamed mining camps. Frontier justice as swift and merciless. The witness stand was a wagon seat, and the jury was made up of anybody who happened along. the sentence was usually a rope over a branch from the nearest tree. One could only hope that Henry Plummer would sample some of that frontier justice--and soon. Henry, the sheriff of Virginia City, Montana, looked every bit like a gentleman. But under the facade was a rapist, blackmailer and murderer--one of the most notorious outlaws the West had ever encountered." from back cover.