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Lieutenant Parke Stobo was assigned to take 25 men, a guide, and three days' rations into the mesquites by way of Pete Kempel's ranch. Stobo was also instructed to give the greenhorn Lieutenant Wells a taste of the country. It should have been just a routine detail.

A man is being goaded into renewing a feud in order to uphold his honor. The ultimate result is a gunfight, and the listener is in on all the action until the gun smoke clears.

Peter Skene takes what he wants and kills who he wants. Settlers, squatters, rustlers and Indian war parties can't stop him from owning the Bitter Valley and the biggest ranch in Oregon.

Slim Shafter rode into Dry Gulch in search of a drink. What he found there was worth far more than the $10 fine that he had to pay the sheriff. He found his father’s killer, Gann Hardesty. Would this be a night of vengeance, when every roustabout's gun was aimed at Shafter, or just an evening’s entertainment?

Tonight the bullets will fly and rancher or rustler will die. A mystery man will decide whose blood will stain the sick streets of Star.