Peter returns from college to his father's ranch after an accident has left him physically crippled but not without ability or enterprise.

In "Speedy's Desert Dance" a young drifter runs into trouble after overhearing two outlaws plan a murder and kidnapping. A gripping story set during the War Between the States. "A Watch in the Wilderness" finds Marse Roberts' company in a trench as a sharpshooter in a tree above starts to shoot them, one by one. "The Good Badman" is Ed Garver, known in the ring as Kid Denver. It was hard luck that finished his fighting career, and that hard luck seems...

It's been eight years since Sam Holt brought his family to Paradise Valley and began the Rainbow Ranch. Along with his wife Helen, son Bruce, and daughter Mary, Sam brought Morgan Drew, the orphaned son of a friend. Since then, Morgan has created his own ranch, the area's second largest. Romances, rivalries and feuds have taken their toll. But now the Paiutes have declared war on all the ranchers, and that will change everything.