Tombstone Stage — William Hopson

Back in the East, Jim Cort had been known as James Van Cortland, and undergone training to be an officer and a gentleman. But a wild and tumultuous spirit had possessed him even in those salad days, and he had thrown away an inheritance, a career in the Army, and the chance to win a girl who might have curbed his unruly nature.

The West claimed him; he made comrades of Indians, and turned to smuggling and other pursuits outside the law. Yet if he was lawless he was fearless, and he shot only after the other man drew first. So when he saw innocent women being attacked in a raid on the Tombstone stage, he intercepted and routed the raiders. Only after the gun fight did he discover that one of the passengers he had rescued was Neely Anderson, the same girl who, six years before, had laughed at him and made him an outlaw.