A man protects settlers from frontier dangers in an adventure by "a storyteller who may very well turn out to be the greatest western writer of them all." — Tombstone Epitaph Across rivers of blood and plains of tears, he led a wagon train toward a country fighting to be born. . . Texas! For the pioneers who streamed out of Missouri it was a land of dreams and freedom. Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Veteran wagon boss Chance McQuade, a man deadly with a pistol and Sharps, had signed on to take a hundred families there. But the man who hired McQuade was joining the wagon train, and turning it into a brawling, rolling city of sin and violence. Now, on the hard drive West, McQuade faces Kiowa, lightning storms, and killers behind his back-all to reach a promised land that's erupting into war. "Very seldom in literature have the legends of the old West been so vividly painted." — Tombstone Epitaph