Veteran Western author Lauran Paine is one of the genre's most consistently entertaining writers. In Cactus Country, which is set in the desert town of Duro, just north of the Mexican border, Jeff Stuart, a former Confederate, agreed to deliver some stolen goods to the Mexican Rurales in exchange for a pardon for his service against the Union in the Civil War. What they didn't tell Jeff was the goods were stolen from the notorious Morgan Scarborough gang - and they were riding hard to get it back!