When the gold dust died in Deadwood
(Book)

"Fresh out of the territorial prison, Tucker Ashley meets up with his old friend Jack, who staked a claim along Deadwood Gulch at the beginning of the Black Hills gold rush. But when they arrive at the claim, only to be confronted by rule enforcers for the mining district--Zell McGinty and his son, Trait, a gunman known as much as his father for ruthlessness. Tucker's long prison sentence--away from the daily practice of gun handling--deadened his skills, and he and Jack are powerless to resist them and are forced off their claim. Miners all along the gulch have been killed. Indians are blamed, until Jack and Tucker uncover most of the dead miners have been murdered by the McGintys, who filed with the mining district for the dead men's claims. They include the son of Ramona Hazelton of Hazelton Oil, who was killed and scalped, a Lakota arrow still into his back. She offers a reward for the Indian who killed her son, sending greedy miners into the hills to find him, but few miners return. The McGintys learn Tucker has uncovered their scheme and the murders, and Trait hunts Tucker. But Tucker's legendary skills with a pistol have to be relearned. All the while Tucker is looking over his shoulder, waiting to be confronted by the deadly gunman. And only one of them will walk away"--Jacket flap of a previous edition.

9-12,Medialog, Inc.