Wes Rand: 3 books

Major Neville Stryker, returning in this third book of the series, is hired by George Hearst, a man who struck it rich in the Comstock Lode, to collect on a poker debt -"The San Francisco Examiner." Hearst wants to give the newspaper to his son, William Randolph Hearst. The debtor, the current...

Major Neville Stryker, returning in this second book of the series, is hired by a German industrialist to protect him, his beautiful nieces, and his new steam powered logging machine from angry union loggers. Years and the elements have worn the stamped letters on his saddle skirt, "Major Neville...

The story takes place in a northern California town near the Sierra foothills. Neville Stryker, the protagonist, is ambushed and left for dead on the trail. He walks to the next town, Egalitaria, formerly named Bickford, and finds his horse but he also finds a town held captive by a gang of murderous...