For three long years, from Yellowstone to Taos, he had survived as a trapper, hunter, cowhand and prospector, and then suddenly a river bed yielded gold. Hed crossed miles of blistering sand to hide his fortune and killed four of the five men whod trailed him. Hed been tortured by enemies and deserted by friends. But now he was back in his hiding place in the wind-carved dunes while a man moved up silently behind him and aimed a rifle at the lone figure in the sand . . .