They never left the saddle—just the flesh. In Riders in the Dust, the cowboy myth is reimagined through the ghostlight of silver and silence. Each Buffalo Nickel becomes a gravestone, each engraving a last stand. These are the long riders and drifters of the forgotten West—skeletal silhouettes etched with dust, wind, and quiet resolve. Some wore badges. Others bore the weight of loss. All of them watched the horizon with eyes that don’t close.

This volume features over 30 haunting black-and-white engravings carved in the hobo nickel tradition, each accompanied by poetic vignettes that honor the grit of the trail. Rusted spurs, hollow stares, and threadbare coats—these aren't romantic cowboys, but revenants of endurance. Riders in the Dust doesn’t mourn what’s gone. It preserves what endures.