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Bowdrie Rides a Coyote Trail
On the trail of a ruthless killer named Carl Dyson, Ranger Chick
Bowdrie finds the body of a rough-riding Californian, dry gulched
and left to rot in the sun. With the dead man's horse in tow,
Bowdrie ambles into the middle of a dispute between the H&H
ranch and the Darcy spread. Seems some H&H hired guns are
giving Jack Darcy a hard time . . . and leading the troublemakers
is ranch owner Rack Herman, strangely in the middle of many a
run-in.
But with the help of some friendly locals, Bowdrie pieces together
a puzzle of murder, corruption, and the shady dealings of a power
hungry rancher. Will Bowdrie travel far to track down Dyson .
. . or is this killer closer than he thinks?
Down Sonora Way
Chick Bowdrie was between a rock and a hard place. Dug down into
the desert sand beside his dead horse, it looked like he'd met
his match. Tensleep Mooney, a tough wily, Wyoming cowhand, waited
sixty yards away with a Winchester. Mooney had already killed
eight men in a feud with the gunslinging Baggs outfit and Bowdrie
felt considerable reluctance to become victim number nine.
Tracking Mooney clear across the Mexican border, the stalemate
continued as the sun set. It was twenty miles to water across
the heart of Apache country, and twenty miles was a long way on
foot.
Then a wounded man, a woman, and two bedraggled kids appeared
in the distance, and just behind, the large dust cloud that meant
Apaches. Bowdrie and Mooney could have played it safe, stayed
hidden and let it happen. But suddenly the outlaw and the lawman
became a crack team against a cruel enemy stalking helpless victims
- two men for whom justice had taken a crazy turn. |