"Pioneers Of the American West" comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Blazing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Many of the most stirring of these chronicles have passed out of print and are now inaccessible even to the painstaking student. It is from among these almost forgotten, yet vital records that this series is based upon. "Pioneers Of the American West" Volume III. traces the trail of adventures mining the famed Comstock Gold, Alder Gulch gold in Montana, general Custer with the Cheyennes and Sioux, the Pony Express, desperado Joseph Alfred "Jack" Slade and general Sheridan's buffalo hunt.