Overland Pacific plot
"Hard-as-spikes men and soft-as-silk women ... they ran into towering canyons and Comanche terror when they ran the railroad to the Gold Coast."
Two friends meet again shortly after the Civil War. Ross Granger is a cop investigating an arms trade while saloon owner Del Stewart is the mastermind behind it. He gives the weapons to Indians so that they disrupt the work on the railway with the intention that the railway will be run through his town.