Colorado Territory, 1872, was about as rough-and-ready as the West could get. Boulder Gap was a false-fronted, one- street town where the only way a fellow could find a decent woman was to send away for her. When Tanzy first caught sight of the man she'd come west to marry, he was galloping after a gang of bandits, peppering their hides with buckshot - a far cry from the safe, respectable husband she'd expected when she agreed to become a mail- order bride.