Heading into the wild West seems an adventure to fifteen-year-old Justin Bodean, until the bullet and arrows begin to fly. The lure of a treasure of Civil War gold drives him, but out where fortunes can be grabbed by the strongest and quickest, he has a lot to learn.

Between July 1875 and November 1883, a single outlaw robbed the stagecoaches of Wells Fargo in California's Mother Lode country a record of twenty-eight times. Armed with an unloaded shotgun, walking to and from the scenes of the robberies, often for hundreds of miles, and leaving poems behind, the infamous Black Bart was fiercely hunted. Between robberies, Black Bart was known as Charles E. Bolton, a distinguished, middle-aged man who enjoyed San...