For Seth Claybourne still wearing the grey uniform of the defeatedConfederates there was no point in returning home for his family had beenforced to quit their ... » 

For Seth Claybourne still wearing the grey uniform of the defeatedConfederates there was no point in returning home for his family had beenforced to quit their land by carpetbaggers from the east. So now he was ridingwest. Crossing a desert he encountered a man who had been left for dead. «