Texas Rangers in Action #53

When a horse-theft tracker named Bo Kettrick pursues Apaches who've raided the ranger corral, he walks straight into an ambush and finds himself face-to-face with Oso, a renegade warrior who challenges him to Apache trial by combat. Outnumbered and outmatched, Kettrick must use his wits and survival instinct to turn the tables and reckon with the stolen horses' fate.

This illustrated history examines how the first people came to the Americas and developed into distinct civilizations across the continent. From early hunters pursuing woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers in the Southwest to skilled fishermen in the Northwest and sophisticated agricultural societies like the Aztecs, the story traces how diverse Indian nations adapted to their environments over thousands of years. The arrival of Spanish horses would later transform the Plains Indians into the skilled cavalry our ancestors encountered during westward expansion.

Timothy Brady, an ex-Union cavalry officer recovering from his wounds, heads west to build a new life—only to be robbed and brutalized by a gang of Confederate veterans led by the ruthless Cap'n Aldrus, who force him into servitude. As Brady endures their cruelty while Aldrus and his men continue their raids across Texas and Oklahoma, a reckoning between the old soldier and his captors becomes inevitable. Can Brady survive long enough for justice to catch up with the men who hold him captive?

In "Death Was Waiting," a Comanchero woman’s chilling prophecy sets a deadly course when she foretells that outlaw Rico Ramon will kill Ranger Coake Fuller. Though Fuller survives the ambush, Captain Lucus orders him to return into the wilderness to face Ramon and bring him in—no matter the cost.