Shane and Jonah

At first glance, Shane Preston and Jonah Jones were an odd pair - one a lean, quiet gunfighter; the other a feisty old-timer running to fat. But they shared a special bond and a common goal: to track down the man with the scarred faced who’d killed Shane’s wife. To do that, however, they needed money. So, they hired out their guns as trouble-busters and fought one deadly battle after another, always in the hope that their trail would eventually cross with that of Scarface.

The Homestead Act allowed nesters to move onto open range and build new lives for themselves. But for the cattlemen - and Linc Boormann in particular - it meant giving up land he had previously used, free of charge, to feed and house his vast herds. Boormann’s answer was simple...to run off the nesters by any means necessary, no matter how brutal. The merciless execution of one such nester brought wandering gunfighters Shane Preston and Jonah Jones to Wolf Valley, and the minute they arrived, open war was declared in no uncertain terms.

Twenty years earlier, Dan Eckert had been an outlaw with a desire to go straight. By selling out his companions, the notorious McCabe gang, he earned himself a full pardon. There was just one problem. Two decades later, the McCabe gang broke out of prison and came looking for revenge.

Following the death of its guide, a wagon train bound for Gun Creek had stalled outside the small town on Conchita. But when Shane Preston and Jonah Jones rode in on the trail of the scar-faced man Shane had sworn to kill, wagon master Huston Whittaker saw an answer to their problems. Whittaker was an old friend of Shane’s, and when he asked for help in getting his emigrants to their destination, the black-clad gunfighter and his crusty old sidekick couldn’t refuse. The trail ahead was going to be mighty hard, though.