Francisco Valdez arrives in Spanish California to marry Ortiza Tarabal, but she falls in love with his slave, El Rojo.

In "Speedy's Desert Dance" a young drifter runs into trouble after overhearing two outlaws plan a murder and kidnapping. A gripping story set during the War Between the States. "A Watch in the Wilderness" finds Marse Roberts' company in a trench as a sharpshooter in a tree above starts to shoot them, one by one. "The Good Badman" is Ed Garver, known in the ring as Kid Denver. It was hard luck that finished his fighting career, and that hard luck seems...

When rancher Tom Baldwin is mortally wounded by an old enemy, he leaves his ranch and his money to the six industrious sons who have helped build it into a successful enterprise. To Flash, his never-do-well seventh son, Baldwin leaves a six-gun, a thoroughbred, and the task of avenging his death.

Outlaw Lawrence Grey has been captured in El Paso-- but Marshal Neilan will set him free if he can locate John Ray, now in Mexico, and heir to a fortune. During the search, Lawrence finds himself surrounding by intrigue, with his life threatened from all sides.

"Carcajou's Trail" is about John Banner, who is hired to protect two men being led by a blind man to a rich cache of gold. "Senor Billy" Jeffers is admired by Mexicans but rejected by Anne Calhoun, who favors Dixie Trimble. Sworn not to hurt the cowardly Dixie, Bill sets out to make him a hero. In the title story, John Cameron, who is part Indian, faces prejudice when he tries to avenge the robbery and brutal murder of his partner in a mining claim....