Rick Patterson was still a young man, sitting there in the Elk City jail, waiting for the sheriff to call him to his hanging. He'd packed an awful lot of living into his less than thirty years - until he took on greedy cattlemen from up in Montana and down through Wyoming. But even Rick Patterson couldn't stand up against all that power. Sitting in that jail, waiting for it, Rick knew one thing for sure - they'd never hang him

Sodbusters are about equal to farm animals on the social scale of the ranching community of Wyoming in the 1870s. Zach and Carrie Bennett, teenaged children of that wretched class, are determined to escape the scorn. They resolve to trek to Texas on foot. They are babes on the prairie, ignorant of the geography and hostility. This incredible journey through the lawless West reveals human nature at its most base and unveils a capacity for violence...

Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart thinks he has broken up the outlaw organization Los Pistoleros after he arrests its leader, J.T. Priest -- the man who killed his father. But just before his trial, Priest escapes from jail, determined to rebuild his criminal empire. Hart knows that if he's ever to put his father's ghost to rest, he must stop the outlaw once and for all. Only Quick Charlie Sims knows where Priest plans to meet up with the rest of his gang....

Ever since Federal Deputy Hart lost his father to ruthless J.T. Priest, he's hoped to find the outlaw leader and bring him down. With the price on Priest's head rising, gunmen from the East and the West come forward. Hart and his partner Roth will need all the help they can get to catch Priest and his infamous gang.