Sam Flint is a stubborn, crusty frontier editor, with a passion for helping the underdog, making sure justice is done, and rooting out corruption. He's been chased out of more frontier towns than he remembers. Now, in Payday, Arizona, he's at it again. Payday is an Eden until some newcomers arrive, and then Flint discovers he's up against people who want to own Payday, and everyone in it.

Driving his wagonload of printing equipment into Oro Blanco, site of the richest gold strike in the New Mexico Territory, journeymen editor Sam Flint decides his newest weekly newspaper will be the Oro Blanco Nugget. But, as he's learned the hard way before, an editor is only popular if he can keep a secret, and Oro Blanco seems to have more than its share. How long will the big mining bosses let his newborn paper exist before they try to run him out of town? If there's one thing that Flint knows too well, it's that nothing makes people madder than the plain, honest truth.

Sam Flint, a committed Old West journalist, returns with a dangerous attempt to start an honest newspaper as competition for the corrupt and powerful Silver City Democrat in the newly formed state of Colorado. Reprint.