Features stories of 26 of Colorado's most flamboyant outlaws and lawmen.

Smoke Jensen, the legendary gunfighter of the High Lonesome, straps on a brace of .45s to help out his friend Joe Wales who is out to find and kill Jacob Murdock and the band of vaqueros who attacked his wife.

Ordered to head west when a New York gangster puts a price on his head for killing his son, Detective Sergeant John McBride ends up in High Hopes, Colorado--a lawless boomtown where McBride quickly runs afoul of corrupt saloon owner Gamble Trask and his vicious hired guns. When beautiful card dealer Shannon Roark asks for his protection, it's high time for one of New York's finest to dole out some frontier justice of his own.

"This is the first full-length biography of an extraordinary woman in Colorado's history. Anna Marie Bassett was the first white child born in the notorious outlaw region of Colorado known as Brown's Park. She knew outlaws such as Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and became lifelong friends with Elza Lay."--Provided by publiaher.

Frank Morgan rides with a brace of six guns, a reputation for knowing how to use them, and a private score hés vowed to settle. Known on the frontier as The Drifter, Morgan has come to Colorado in pursuit of the hombres who killed the only woman he ever loved. But two vicious outlaw gangs are running roughshod over the territory in a stampede of murder, robbery, and rape. And now they've made an enemy of Frank Morgan--taking his own son hostage....

"Recounts the life and times of Ann Myrtle Bassett (1878-1956) and Brown's Park, located at the intersection of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Considered a rustler by some, "Queen Ann" Bassett participated in the cattle trade and the Indian Wars. She was a friend to pioneers, outlaws, and Ute Indians"--