The heart of the American West lives in Peter Dawson's stories. His characters blaze a trail over the land of frontier dreams, across a country that was coming of age. From the attempt of an outlaw father to save the life of his son who has become an officer of the law, to a shotgun guard who is forced to choose between a seemingly impossible love and complicity in a stagecoach robbery, each of these seven stories embodies the dramatic struggles that made the American frontier so unique and its people the stuff of legends.