Sidney Stone

The desert keeps its dead. When drifting cowhand Tate McCall and his grim trail partner Jed Harper discover a sun-bleached skeleton deep in the wastelands beyond Black Vulture Pass, they figure the dead man's story ended long ago. But hidden near the bones lies the clue to a stolen gold shipment-and somebody is still killing to keep the secret buried beneath the desert sand. Hunted by ruthless gunmen and trapped in a country where water is scarce and mercy even scarcer, the two riders follow a deadly trail stretching across outlaw towns, forgotten mining camps, and burning desert flats where buzzards circle overhead.
Every mile brings them closer to the truth. And closer to the men who left the bones behind. TRAIL OF WHITE BONES is a hard-riding Western packed with frontier danger, hidden gold, dry-country gunfights, and relentless suspense in the classic tradition of the 1950s rack-paperback adventures.