IN 1880, COAL WAS KING. AND THE MINERS PAWNS. It was going to be a long, hard strike. Already—in Carboniferous, Colorado—the gunmen were squaring off: mine-company goons vs. the "Molly Maguires" — union terrorists whose real names were only whispered in the torch-lit dark. Into this nerve-taut town rode Longarm, a government strikebreaker who didn't like his job one bit. Until he met a coalman's wildcat daughter—and struck gold.