Shower of gold : a western story
(Book)

First appeared in an expurgated version titled Desert gold as a six-part serial in The popular magazine (2/8/13-4/19/13) and also published in book form by Harper & Bros. in April, 1913. This edition restores Grey's original text. Grey's manuscript title was The ranger of Forlorn River.

In the early 1900s, Richard Gale agrees to help George Thorne, an old college friend, get his girlfriend Mercedes, a Spanish aristocrat, to safety, away from the Mexican bandit who murdered her father. Gale gets to the Belding Ranch, where he becomes a desert ranger and falls in love with Belding's daughter, Nell. But security is only temporary: Thorne is kidnapped by the Mexican bandit and his renegades who then take him to Belding's ranch, demanding Mercedes's surrender in exchange for the lives of everyone at the ranch.