A Spur Award Winner
December 1863. Daniel Stark‚ New York lawyer and radical abolitionist‚ has come to the gold fields of Alder Gulch seeking gold to repay the clients whose assets his father gambled away before killing himself. But where ruffians rule and murder is tolerated‚ Dan realizes that he will likely not survive to take his gold home unless he joins with others‚ Union and Confederate sympathizers alike‚ who form a Vigilante group to establish law and order.