If California went with the secessionists, the North could lose the War Between the States -- and Mike McLish knew it. There was a big force of Confederates gathered at El Paso. All they needed was a leader and money to buy transport west. And the money was on the way when their leader left San Francisco by Butterfield Stage. Mike traveled on that same stage, along with two beautiful girls, a professional gunslinger, and a spy who could be working both sides against the middle.