From a three-time Spur Award-winner comes the tale of an orphaned boy who is forced to become a man. Mark Kelton is eighteen years old-part boy, part man. On the trail to set up a ranch in eastern Oregon, his parents are killed by an unknown assailant and their strongbox containing $8,000 is stolen. Mark heads out onto the empty plain where he encounters Bronco Curtis, a man who knows what he wants, and Curtis befriends the young orphan. When Curtis...

In the 1860s and 70s, men still got up with the sun - and to young Jim Glenn, his father's phrase sun on the wall meant the boy was already late. Daylight, the time when an honest, small farmer could work, was precious. So when, as a very young man, Jim started wondering west, he stacked the raffish, brawling world exploding about him against values that left the West very much wanting. And Jim Glenn into a peck of trouble