"It is 1862. With his older brothers fighting in the war, Wyatt Earp - at fourteen - is left to manage the family's Iowa farm under his father's iron rule. These years of labor inculcate into him an ambition to seek his fortunes by his wits rather than the sweat of his back. The open territory to the west, he knows, offers that opportunity. When his family treks to California he makes the passing acquaintance of a beguiling Mexican girl, whose philosophy...

"After the split with Wes Wilson at the end of Book One, Rawhide Jake works undercover at the huge Flying XC Ranch where he tracks down and arrests five rustlers. His reputation as a dangerous man grows throughout the region. On the spring roundup, the dust of the herd fills his nostrils, but he saves the life of the cow boss. Jake falls for a married woman and later, upon the death of her husband, marries her. He and Wes hook up again, take down...