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The South needed Texas for men and supplies to carry on the war - but in Texas another war was raging, between Secessionists and Union sympathizers. Rancher Roy Talley wasn't looking for a fight, but two of his brothers had been among the Unionists killed in the bloody Nueces Massacre. Now Talley saw his chance for revenge. The South needed quinine - needed it more than anything except gold. And Talley meant to bargain smuggled quinine for a fortune.

The trail led westward to El Dorado-to the gold fields of California-and there were always men like Joshua Perkins reckless enough to pit themselves against it. Born a Comanche captive, at sixteen a texas Ranger and army scout, Joshua dreamed of glory, adventure and of enough gold to fill a dozen wagon trains. Lying near death in a deserted canyon, Joshua found a new dream to replace El Dorado-a dream of riding point for an army of men that would sweep back along the Maricopa Trail, leaving justice-swift and violent-in its wake.

"When Tom Bell rode into Doblado to take over the only newspaper in Vaca County, he saw the old editor shot down before his eyes. The cut-throat gang who wanted to run the county pinned the murder on Bell. Bell blasted the gang in his newspaper, and printed enough evidence against them to sign his own death warrant. But Tom Bell was un buscadero--a two-gun man."--Page 4 of cover.

Ross Phillips is charged with getting a million dollars in gold bullion to Red River, Arkansas and establishing a new trade route through Comanche-infested wilderness.

Walk was a Comanchero, with a stake. He meant to trade that stake for a ranch, even if he had to fight the Comanches, Cheyennes, Mexicans, ranchers and the whole U.S. Army. One thing was certain - he would have to mean it. For that's exactly what he would have to do.

The Twilight Zone stretched for a hundred miles between Texas and Louisiana, and harbored more killers, thieves and assorted human monsters than any area its size in the world. But law-abiding men fought their way through it--on the other side lay Texas and all the great Southwest: the frontier that restless Americans were pushing westward. Some made it, got through. Some didn't...