The Spark of Skeeter Bill

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In the gold-rush town of Sunbeam, where greed, lies, and gunfire shape daily life, Skeeter Bill Sarg stands apart: a horse thief and killer with a fierce private code that hates deceit more than crime. After shooting Jeff Billings, the gunman who helped cheat him in the Solomon Mine robbery, Skeeter defies gang leader Tug Leeds, rejects a place in the outlaw outfit, and chooses to work alone. His blunt honesty makes him an outsider even among criminals, but it also earns the wary respect of Judge Tareyton, the drunken, sharp-witted lawyer who once won Skeeter's freedom and later discovered his guilt. When Skeeter heads for Poplar Springs to steal horses and settle accounts with Leeds, a storm-broken wagon train is attacked in a savage raid, leaving death, wreckage, and terrified survivors, including Reverend Josiah Weston and Mary Leeds. Skeeter's instinct for survival, his rough humor, and his reluctant compassion pull him into an uneasy alliance with the minister and the girl as he navigates a frontier world of violence, comic misunderstanding, and unexpected fellowship.