After a row with his fiancee, young lawyer Jerry Freeman leaves New York and travels as far as his meagre savings will carry him. He ends up in the Texas town of Mineral Springs, where saloon owner Judge Clayton Singer runs a bizarre court, with the law coming second to his whims...
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Down on his luck, Martin Quincy falls in with crooked company, and agrees to participate in a train robbery. The hold-up is successful, netting Quincy over three thousand dollars. But later he's shocked to discover that one of the other thieves shot a woman in front of her child ...
"It is the summer of 1858, and the Turner family are making their way along the Oregon Trail to California. The wagon train with which they are travelling is attacked by a band of Paiute, but this is no mere skirmish in the Indian Wars. The territory of Utah, or Deseret as those ...
Abednego Merton wants a better future for his daughter Hannah than scraping a living on an Arkansas smallholding. So he sells up, fits out a wagon, and the two strike out for California, where Hannah might have the opportunity to study in one of the big cities. But along the way,...
It is the summer of 1859 and the Turner family are making their way along the Oregon Trail to California. The wagon train with which they are travelling is attacked by a band of Paiute, but this is no mere skirmish in the Indian Wars. There are more sinister forces at work. The t...