Shellshocked war veteran Glenn Kilbournen, in search of himself in the Arizona wilds, realizes that he can never return to his former superficial life, and puts up a fight against injustice.
The story of Lucia d'Arquista's confrontation with her own soul - The Black Rider (originally published in 1925) is set in Spanish California at the time when the eastern colonies of this country were still ruled by Great Britain.
The fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough road bed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder; the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost.
Im blutigen Bürgerkrieg Amerikas ritten Jesse und Frank James und die Brüder Younger in der Todesschwadron des Guerillaführers William Quantrill und kämpften für die Südstaatenkonföderation.
Mason, Violet und ihr russischer Freund Oblomow stehen kurz davor, den vergessenen Schatz von Cibola zu heben, doch immer wieder kommen ihnen ihre Verfolger in die Quere.