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Dude McQuinn is at it one more time. He's got himself one hell of a horse. A real flyer named Judge Blair. Better than that, he's got the smoothest snake-oil salesman in the country, Billy Lockhart, as his trainer; and he's got his old Comanche pal, Coyote Walking, as his jockey. Best of all, he's got a sucker. A feller willing to lay two to one that Judge Blair will finish second in a two-horse race. Race day comes, Judge Blair wins by daylight,...
7) Bush track
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Dude McQuinn had tried hard to give up the risky and dangerous life of an itinerant quarter horse racer, b ut a letter from a one-time partner, describing the success he was having in Kansas, was more than Dude could resist. Dude set out after his old pals and finally caught up with them just as they were fleeing an irate sheriff, furious at having lost a racing bet -- all the more because his friends had taken a few shady "precautions" to insure...
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Former soldier Jesse Wilder was branded a traitor and disinherited for choosing to serve in the Union army after being captured at the battle of Shiloh. He went West and became a hired gun, first training the Juáristas in Mexico, then running paramilitary missions for the U.S. army; and now, exhausted and enervated from constant fighting, he's drifted up into the Arizona Territory. But there remains no respite: a young mother has beseeched Jesse...
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"After Victorio's death, the Southwest had simmered down. Without their chief, the Warm Springs Apaches abandoned the murderous campaign against the blancos and the Mexicans who had invaded their tribal lands, and serenity had returned to the arid territory. But bitter memories lingered. Lieutenant Ewing Mackay was glad of the respite. During his seven-year tour of duty in Arizona Territory he had come to love the desert's austere beauty, the stark...
12) War journey
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A sensitive young artist. Paul Benedict, had gone West from Baltimore to paint the Indians in their primitive state. He got a closer look than he had counted on when he was captured and held as a slave by a band of Kiowas.
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It was the Roaring Twenties, and the Osage Indians were the wealthiest people in the United States, and every no-good drifter had a plan to get his hands on some of that money. They descended like a swarm of locusts, and unsolved Indian homicides occurred at an alarming rate.
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Former Confederate soldier Jesse Wilder was branded a traitor and disinherited for wearing the Union blue after he was captured at the battle of Shiloh. He traveled West and became a hired gun, training the Juáristas in Mexico--an act that took the life of his wife. When the U.S. army offers him a position as a scout on a mission into Mexico, to rescue the kidnapped daughter of the Sonora governor, there are plenty of reasons to refuse, but one very...
19) Match race
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The saga of horse trader Dude McQuinn and his two sidekicks, Coyote Walking and Uncle Billy Lockhart.
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