Ever wonder what happens to a young man who is called of God into his ministry? Easy life - Right? Some time in the old west, we meet our new minister and find that he is very much like all the rest of us except - - - - Well, you read the story and decide.

The story takes place in the early 1880's in the Arizona Territories with two old friends that grew up together since childhood. Jack and Coors get together a few times a year to take off on one of their wild adventures. This story is about one of their last adventures that took them to the southeastern part of Arizona where they get involved with the brotherhood of the Cowboys that wore red sashes around their waists. Thet take part in one of the most documented treasure stories of the southwest: 'The Skeleton Canyon Massacre', located in the southeastern part of Cochise County. With events that take place, they get the cache for themselves and hide it to be dug up later. 125 years later, Glen and Bill get together and make trips to various places around Arizona where actual western history took place. They decide to check out the area where the 'Skeleton Canyon Massacre took place. They meet an old coot by the name of Zwing Hunt who is a relative of one of the men that actually took part in the Massacre. They befriend each other and share information on the Massacre and the various scenarios of where the treasure may be stashed. The Strange events that take place later with Glen and Bill, lead them to the cache. They travel on to Tombstone with the cache and there, still experience events that make them wonder what the hell is going on. The night before they leaveTombstone to return to Prescott, they have the same dream which answers all of their questions regarding the strange events. Back in Prescott they take count of their cache and discuss how they're going to dispose of it. Bill, with a smile says, "When do we start."

"The Day Coffeyville Bled" begins at the end of the Dalton/Johnson Gang as they are shot to pieces and lie dying in gutters, alleys, and empty fields after spending thirteen minutes longer on this earth than necessary. From the morning of Wednesday, October 5, 1892, through to as late as the year 2001, immediate family members of this gang survived and buried their secrets, but not as well as they would have hoped. Five marriages, three murders, two illegitimate children, real estate companies, motion pictures, and newspaper, magazine, and book publications all became part of what legends are made of as the Dalton/Johnson outlaw gang rode out of the nineteenth century straight into the twentieth century, while two of their number escape apprehension.

Book I, The Lady of Athenia, deals with a 23-year-old widowed Southern Belle, punished by vengeful Union Officers who order the destruction of her Mississippi plantation, Athenia, forcing the now destitute Davida Julianna Asherton to head West. After much hardship, she finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy to murder President Andrew Johnson. Book II, The Bright Sentinel, concerns a 17-year-old emancipated slave. Her story covers Maryland plantation life, the cruelty of her Scottish father, and her perilous escape to Washington, D.C. The Creole beauty is enmeshed in a political scandal, grabs blackmail money and hurriedly boards the first stagecoach West. She meets her future husband, a gun-toting cattle ranch foreman, and both are hired by the government to discredit the leader of the Crow Indians, who are threatening to overrun Wyoming-Dakota Territory. Book III, Flaxen-Haired Warrior, focuses on a German Count's family destroyed in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War. 19-year-old Countess Lisl Maria Von Ost flees toward France. An expert swordswoman, she is forced to kill three enemy soldiers who attacked her. Hired assassins chase her through warring France and neutral Belgium. paid killers pursue her even there. Desperate, Maria escapes into the western frontier.

Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.

As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only the blazing heat and raging tornadoes, roiling rivers and merciless Indians but also the deadly whims of soldiers. On their first expeditions--led by incompetent officers and accompanied by the robust, dauntless whore known as the Great Western--they will face death at the hands of the cunning Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and the silent Apache Gomez. They will be astonished by the Mexican army. And Gus will meet the love of his life.