There are two things a man can never escape: his past and his destiny. For Buck Trammel, that past includes a fatal mistake that ended his career as a Pinkerton--and a deadly shootout with the Bower gang in a Wichita saloon.
Call it luck or call it fate, but the famous Deputy Wyatt Earp was there to give Buck some advice; “Run for your life.” Maybe it was Earp’s warning that saved him from the gang’s wrath. Maybe it was destiny that brought him to the town of Blackstone, Wyoming, where his biggest problem is a fatherson brewing war. But Trammel’s luck is about to run dry.
The gang’s ruthless boss, Old Man Bower, knows where Trammel lives. He’s assembled a small army of gunslingers. He’s hired a Pinkerton with a grudge against Trammel, and he’s coming to town to bury the hatchet – “Bury the Hatchet” by William W. Johnstone.
Welcome to the Lost Coyote Saloon. Saddle up to the bar and order a whiskey. Play a few hands of poker, but don’t make any trouble. The new owner is a savage, Ben Savage. Once a Texas Ranger, he’s always cocked and ready for some fool to come looking for payback.
When Ben Savage receives a telegram informing him that an old friend died – and left him his saloon –he’s not sure what to think. Western saloons are as wild as it gets; full of rowdy ranchers and cocky cowboys, high-stakes gamblers and lowlife drifters, hard liquor and easy women.
Then there’s the occasional outlaw gang. But when Savage travels to Buzzard’s Bluff, Texas, to check out his inheritance, he meets the saloon’s lovely manager, Rachel Baskin, and has a change of heart. As an experienced lawman, he figures he can run a decent establishment. Keep things friendly, peaceful, and orderly.
There’s just one problem: a rival saloon owner wants Savage out of the way so he can control all the vice in town. And some of his men are bound to turn up in his saloon – thirsty for whiskey and killing. “Buzzard’s Bluff” is a new western series by William W. Johnstone.
Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm – the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman – arrives in the heart of Comanche country with a price on his head. His only crime, loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has promised her to a wealthy man she hates.
Now that Ten has returned to the harsh Texas land with a team of battle-toughened cowboys and ex-soldiers – and a vow to return to Priscilla and make her his wife – he must round up wild longhorns, ward off angry Comanche, and survive treacherous outlaw attacks as he crosses the Red River and sets off on a brazen quest to open a new trail to Kansas on the savage frontier. Find out if Ten survives and Priscilla becomes his wife in “The Chisholm Trail” by Ralph Compton.