Lewis B Patten

Arriving in Denver City, Colorado, at the start of the Civil War, Clee Farr finds the townspeople torn apart by loyalties to North and South.

Before all the shooting started, Ross Dunbar thought Dry Creek looked like a good place to settle down. But if the pair of tough, desperate men who now had him trapped had their way, he'd likely be settling down in a shallow grave instead. It had all been caused by an act of conscience that had got him involved with the wife of a man he had shot. It was only a mission of mercy, for someone else's wife. But there was no way to explain that now to these...

"In two western stories, a reluctant gunfighter and a former buffalo hider must stand alone against lawless men to make their chosen towns safe"--