1864 Colorado Territory. Luke Coldiron drives a herd of his famous horses from his ranch to Denver City for sale. He wins a huge sum of gold at cards. In the Battle Of The Wilderness in Virginia, Jubal Clason kills his commanding officer, steals his horse and deserts the Union Army and rides away to the west. On the Arkansas River, Ghost Walker, an Arapaho, kills the tribe’s war chief for stealing his woman and becomes an outcast. In the mountains near Denver, beautiful Susan Penfold and her husband and brother strike a rich deposit of gold.
Clason and Ghost Walker, two violent men, join together to rob and kill for gold, Clason out of greed and Ghost Walker out of hate for white men and the desire for weapons for his people.
The lives of the four so different people clash in deadly combat when Clason and Ghost Walker shoot and rob Luke and leave him for dead. In pursuit of the robbers, Luke comes upon Susan, whose husband and brother have been killed by Clason and Ghost Walker, and is also in pursuit of the killers. Luke and Susan join together to wreak vengeance upon the two murders. They pursue the two across the blizzard lashed prairie and into the Rocky Mountains to a final, deadly battle.
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From – Coldiron - Shadow Of The Wolf
Luke reached out and his fingers brushed the cool softness of Susan’s cheek.
She stepped back from him. “Why did you do that?”
“It seemed the right thing to do and I wanted to,” Luke replied.
“My husband has been dead hardly a week,” Susan said.
“Feelings are important, not time or custom.”
“They are important to me.”
“We’re not in Massachusetts. We’re in the Colorado Territory searching for two men to kill. Does that sound like Massachusetts? There the law would be doing the searching, and if the outlaws were caught, a trial would be held. Here, if we catch them, we will kill them. Or they will kill us.”
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