Big Ike — Andrew J. Fenady

The odds have always been against Big Ike. When he risks everything to start a new life in the gold fields of California. When he joins the Union Army and is wounded leading a charge at Shiloh. And now he faces the greatest odds of his life, as he leads a wagon train through hostile Apache territory to establish a freight line in Arizona.

He has a gentle nun on one side of him, a reformed prostitute on the other--and a notorious gunman on his trail, a hired gun who has killed many men before...and who is now paid to kill Big Ike.