The Legacy

An elderly rancher is shot to death over a dispute about a hidden treasure. J. Pierce Buchanan has spent a lifetime tearing a living out of the open range--battling droughts and wildfire, Indians and bandits. At ninety, he has accumulated a fortune in gold pieces--some $50,000--but he will never get the chance to spend it. In the still of the night, someone sneaks into the old man's bedroom and tortures him at gunpoint in a fearsome attempt to lay his hands on the treasure. When J. Pierce won't speak, someone shoots him five times and disappears into the darkness. Heirs come out of the woodwork demanding a piece of the old man's fortune, as the cowhands and yard men of the ranch scour the thirty-thousand acres searching for the stash. Into this frenzy of greed ride Glen Strange and Bobby Trapp, a pair of honest cowboys just looking for a scrap of work. The J-Bar Ranch has contracted gold fever, and J. Pierce Buchanan will not be the last victim There was nothing special about the J-Bar ranch in Colorado...except that it had thirty-five thousand acres of prime land and its previous owner had just been murdered leaving $50,000 and hidden gold. The whole territory joins the hunt for the missing fortune and violence and murder become commonplace, but it is only when three heirs arrive from the East that true chaos erupts... An elderly rancher is shot to death over a dispute about a hidden treasureJ. Pierce Buchanan has spent a lifetime tearing a living out of the open range{u2014}battling droughts and wildfire, Indians and bandits. At ninety, he has accumulated a fortune in gold pieces{u2014}some