After getting cleaned out by a bad hand at cards, Skye Fargo is desperate for cash. When he rides into Tucson looking for work, he soon finds out that there's more than money at stake. The dreaded Bearcat Lutz rules the town with a bloody fist, forcing innocent prisoners to work as slaves and destroying everyone who dares to stand up to him. But the Trailsman is going to do more than just stand up to Lutz--he's going to take him down...."--p. [4]...

"The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"-- "It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof.' From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains...

"Journey to the Land of the Zek and Back is a vivid, first-person account of life in the Soviet Gulag, a work that has never appeared in full before in English. It was one of the earliest published accounts of the Soviet camp system when it was published in France in 1949 and became an established classic in the Russian-speaking world, influencing the formation of the genre of Gulag memoirs"--