End of Track — Francis Van Wyck Mason

Robert Burton was a soldier of fortune. He had been a cavalry officer in the confederate army, and, more recently, had hired himself out to fight with the troops of Mexico's Emperor Maximilian.
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But he was tired of being on the losing side. Wanting to win something, for himself, he headed for a new and different place: the fast-growing Utah territory.
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Before his train even reached its first stop, he was fighting for his life amid the flaming ruins of a wrecked train, surrounded by screaming Indian savages.