The El Dorado Trail

A murderous outlaw kills a store-keeper and steals his money. U.S. Marshal Matthias Lawton rides The El Dorado Trail to bring his man to justice. Trouble is, there's three brothers and only one of him; that is until he gets help from an unlikely source--the cousin of the man who just tried to kill him.

Danger at every turn... The frontier of the early West is a place of danger, lawlessness and corruption. Yet along the Southern trails, there is silver to be found, nestled in the great hills. And in these dark and desperate times in an untamed land, people will do anything they can to get their hands on a fortune. Men will kill for less than a handful of gold, and no one lives long by taking chances. Whilst riding along a lonely and desolate trail, drifter Lanner encounters a dying man with a priceless secret - a map containing the location of the fabled El Dorado silver mine. The dying man bequeaths the map to Lanner, but possessing this knowledge puts Lanner in grave danger. Upon riding into a nearby town, Lanner is immediately treated with suspicion and contempt. It's not long before several attempts are made upon his life, all with the aim of seizing possession of the priceless map. Can Lanner escape this band of outlaws and find the legendary mine? Or will he be outnumbered? El Dorado Trail is a breathtaking adventure of the Wild West's fabled history - the perfect choice for fans of Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey. John Glasby was born in 1928, and graduated from University with an honours degree in Chemistry. He started his career as a research chemist for I.C.I. in 1952, and worked for them until his retirement. During the early 1960s, Glasby wrote dozens of paperback westerns, all of which were reprinted in hardcover and paperback four decades later. Following his retirement from I.C.I., Glasby produced a steady stream of new westerns, science fiction and crime novels, right up to his death in 2010. His westerns include Justice at Red River, Cain Brand, Flashpoint, Crimson Dust, Brand of the Hunted, Triple Peaks and Bowie of the Alamo.

The frontier of the early West stretched south for several hundred miles, beyond the borders of Louisiana and Texas, down to Mexico, a country just recovering from the throes of revolution. This is the breathtaking story of men who fought to make an empire south of Texas, along the Rio Grande.

"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.

The frontier of the early West stretched south for several hundred miles, down to Mexico, a country just recovering from the throes of revolution. The Civil War in the United States was finished, leaving both north and south impoverished. But along the southern trails there was silver to be had, dug out of the tall hills. Inevitably, the lawless breed drifted south. Cold, hard and vicious, they set up laws of their own, the law of the gun, and fought miner and Mexican alike in their lust for wealth..