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This book is a work of fiction that tells the story of the first gold strike in the Montana Territory along Willow Creek in 1862. The gold camp grew to over 10,000 people, and Bannack became the first capitol of the Territory of Montana. My story tells about the lives of the four gold miners that made the strike, and it recounts the many hardships endured by the men and women living in a gold camp in the high mountains.

Will Cannon leaves his Mora River Ranch and rides alone to the small southeastern New Mexico town of Sandoval in search of the Blackman Gang. The Blackman Gang killed Will's family in Virginia several years ago and Will swore an oath to kill Blackman and every member of his gang.

Will Cannon knows that the Lucias King Gang is an outlaw gang of all black men, and they have been robbing and killing innocent people in Colorado for two years. He thinks that there is another gang of outlaws robbing the gold trains near Denver, Colorado, and he hopes this is the Blackman Gang. Blackman and his gang of cutthroats killed Will's family, and Will will not rest until Blackman and every member of his gang are dead.

Will Cannon gets trapped in a train station by a blizzard, and there is a hired killer on the train that is in with the Red Rawlings Gang. Will befriends a young cowboy, and they work together to get the train to Raton, New Mexico, and to fight the Red Rawlings and his gang of ruthless cutthroats. Will uses every tool at his disposal to save the beautiful Kate Winslow and her young daughter.

Will Cannon reads about a gang of vicious outlaws robbing and killing innocent people near the deep canyons of the Colorado River in Arizona. Hoping to find Blackman and his gang of outlaws there Will rides to Arizona and finds the doomsday preacher. He enlists the help of three young cowboys, a rancher and an old hermit to find the outlaw gang.

Will Cannon takes on the difficult task of finding the robber's roost. The Dutch Cromwell Gang hides out in their roost in the Wyoming badlands, and the gang has been robbing banks and trains for the last 10 years.

The Las Cruces Bushwhacker is murdering innocent men in Las Cruces and Will Cannon rides the rails to Las Cruces, New Mexico to put an end to the Bushwhacker's criminal activities. He enlists the help of two friends, Scout and Shooter, but they also have to deal with a gang of Mexican bandits and the outlaws known as the Fisher Boys.

Will Cannon receives an important telegram from his brother, Joe Cannon, in Santa Fe. A gang of vicious outlaws have abducted some of the government officials. Will gets on the train and heads for Santa Fe to stop the criminal activity. Several innocent people have been killed, and Will and his brother, Joe, won't allow that to happen. The outlaw gang has plenty of men, money, weapons, and criminal background, but the outlaw gang doesn't have Will Cannon.

Will Cannon wasn't looking for trouble when he rode into Wallebe, Kansas but trouble found him. Will kills a young outlaw and the outlaw's father, Hemsley runs the town of Wallebe. When Hemsley's hired killers can't kill Will the outlaw boss sends for the Monte Gang. Now Will has to fight 10 vicious killers all alone.

The story begins with Will Cannon on the trail of the Blackman Gang and he is attacked by a bushwacker. Will finds some papers on the bushwacker that indicates that Blackman has put a 10,000 dollar bounty on his head. Will goes to the small Texas town of Estilline and gets his friend, Texas Ranger Duke Wills, to join the hunt for the Blackman Gang. Will also meets a beautiful young woman in Estilline that has been victimized by the Blackman Gang.

Will Cannon is on the way to Springerville, Arizona to buy some stock when he catches some dirty Regulators lynching a young cowboy. Will manages to save the young cowboys life, but the Regulators think the cowboy is dead. Will devises a plan to make the young cowboy The Lazarus Man and have him attack the outlaws while Will gathers a group of ranchers and cowboys to fight the outlaws.

There are some events happening in Eastern New Mexico, and Will rides to the area known as Devil's mountain. Will and his brother Joe sell lots horses to the army and the Indian Reservations. Will has heard that there are herds of wild horses and some unbranded cattle along the Canadian river. There are also rumors that several people have disappeared from this area. People in the area say some devil-worshipers are killing people and burning the bodies and giving the ashes to Satan.

A Gang of Irish outlaws are trying to take over the town of Las Vegas, New Mexico and Will Cannon hopes that Blackman and his gang of cutthroats are behind the violence in Las Vegas. Will rides alone to Las Vegas and he finds a town in serious trouble and a beautiful woman in danger. Now he must find a way to stop the Irish Gang.

Will Cannon rides to Texarkana, Texas in search of the Blackman Gang. He immediately becomes involved in a blood feud between the Monroe clan from Texarkana and the Larson clan from Arkansas. Will meets a beautiful young hillbilly woman named Billy Joe Monroe. Billy Joe is determined to make Will her husband and even though Billy Joe is a handful she does help Will bring the outlaw gang to justice.

Will Cannon hears about a gang of outlaws operating out of the small village of Pecos, New Mexico. Moses, the leader of the outlaw gang, claims he is the "Robin Hood of New Mexico". The outlaw boss says he will take all of the land given to the Mexican people in land grants by the King of Spain. Other outlaws have made such a claim in the past and all of those outlaws failed to claim one acre of land but the outlaws did find some people willing to join their cause.

Will Cannon rescues Mountain Mike, the last living mountain man, from a gang of outlaws from Taos, New Mexico. The gang of ruthless outlaws are trying to steal Mike's silver claim. Will gets some cowboys and some vigilante miners and devises a plan to rid Taos of the outlaws.

Will Cannon rides into El Paso looking for two outlaws that had escaped his trap in San Antonio. While he is El Paso he learns that a beautiful, young woman has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom by the ruthless Mexican bandit, El Diablo. Germantown is deep in Mexico and it is the hideout for many cutthroats. Saving the young woman is Will's first concern but he also wants the ten thousand dollar reward for the safe return of Nita Beal.

A vicious gang of White slavers has taken a young girl from her family's farm near Phoenix, Arizona. Will hears about the abduction, and he thinks this crime might be the work of the Blackman Gang. Blackman and his gang of cutthroats and killers murdered Will's family and stole their land right at the end of the war. Will Cannon stood over the graves of his family and swore he would find and kill Blackman and every member of his gang.

Will Cannon had gone to Durango a few years ago and taken care of the Silver Dollar Killer and the Edwards Gang, but now a new group of murderous outlaws are taking over Durango. Will and his brother, Joe, do business in Durango, and he is not going to allow a gang of outlaws ruin his business there. Will rides to Durango and later to the lawless mining camp of To Hell You Ride, Colorado, to fight the outlaws. He enlists the help of some miner vigilantes and some young cowboys and Pete Abrams and his other men from Chama to fight the outlaws.

The Hell Riders is a group of young men from the Hell Roaring River Valley in Utah fighting a gang of outlaws who are trying to take over the valley. Will Cannon rides into town and is immediately drawn into the fight. Will meets a beautiful woman and helps the gold miners and the farmers and ranchers fight the Ingersol Gang.