Begin with the massacre of 27 innocent men. Follow it with two brutal murders almost 90 years later. Add two curious, hard-bitten veterans of the guerilla fighting, and a beautiful terror-stricken girl.

Mix with a pack of vicious killers, who would have been more than a match for the most notorious gunmen of the old West, and you have Louis L'Amour's blistering novel of action and adventure in the new West.