Also by author: Once a Ranger, Always a Ranger During the War Between The States President Lincoln ordered a million dollars in double gold eagles minted to use after the conflict was over to help reconstruct the war torn Southern States. These coins were minted with the R mint mark. The Treasury Department was responsible to count the returning coins when retrieved by the department to make sure they were used for the purpose intended. Two years after the conflict ended all of the coins were accounted for except the quarter million that was stolen from a federal bank in St. Louis. Eleven...

Elliot Marsh is a United States Marshal that is sent to the town of Sandstone by Judge Moses Whitman. The Judge has a letter from an old friend that is requesting his help. Marshal Elliot Marsh is given a free hand to find out what the problem is with the Judge's friend Able Brown. In the town of Sandstone Elliot meets an attorney to whom the Judge directed him to visit when he first arrives in Sandstone. He finds that a rancher by the name of Homer Wilson has hired a crew of gun fighters and is trying to seize the Brown ranch and others that join it. With the two riders that Elliot met in...