Lesley Selander

A Confederate spy takes the sheriff job in a lawless Union town where people are hostile to him and where a crooked saloon owner peddles rifles to the renegade Indians. During the Civil War, a Confederate spy takes a job as marshal of a small western town as a cover for his espionage activities. However, he soon finds out that a local businessman is selling weapons to a band of rampaging Indians. —Anonymous During the Civil War Confederate soldiers who were captured were given the choice of swearing allegiance to the Union and given duties. One of these men is Lee Travis who is sent to Arizona to be the new Sheriff. But the town is in the hands of the saloon owner who is into all sorts of graft and the Sheriff just lets him to do it. The owner tries to have Travis killed but Travis outsmarts his men. He arrives and is greeted by the deputy who served in the war and lost the use of one of his arms and is now bitter towards all Confederates. Travis is actually on a mission for the Confederacy and makes contact with his contact. But the saloon owner puts a crimp in his mission so he tries to find a way to take care of him. But In the end only makes the owner hate him more and the deputy suspicious of him. —rcs0411@yahoo.com

An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich himself.

A former Texas sheriff, living in Mexico, goes to Arizona to investigate the murky circumstances under which his brother, a peaceful newspaperman, was killed. Wanted north of the border, Jess Carlin resides safely in Mexico. Then he hears his brother was killed in a gunfight with another man. Knowning his brother never carried a gun he heads north to find his brother's killer. After battling bounty hunters he arrives in Rimrock, a town controlled by Luke Starr. Starr is the man he wants but he unable to find any evidence until he is given an item found by his brother's body. —Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

A disgruntled settler kills an Apache chief at Fort Yuma, and the fort's commander knows that the chief's son, Manga Colorado, will seek revenge and go on the warpath. A disgruntled settler kills an Apache chief at Fort Yuma, and the fort's commander knows that the chief's son, Manga Colorado, will seek revenge and go on the warpath. He sends word by a courier to Fort Apache where a supply column is due to head across the desert to Fort Yuman, but the courier is killed by Mangas. The column, under the command of Lieutenant Ben Keegan who hates Apaches because he doesn't trust them, and because his assigned scout is Jonas, the brother of an Apache girl, Francesca, whom Keegan has been having an affair with. Also accompanying them is Melanie Crowne, who is going to do missionary work among the Apaches. Mangas attacks the column wiping out everybody but Keegan, Jonas and Melanie. Francesca is killed while trying to warn Keegan, and he realizes how foolish he had been in his prejudice and in keeping his love secret. The Apaches, dressed in the uniforms of the dead soldier, plan to gain entrance to Fort Yuma and massacre the men there. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>