The Hawk #6

When The Hawk trails a wounded man into the desert, he uncovers an assassination plot—torn hundred-dollar bill halves used as payment for his murder. Now the marshal must navigate a web of conspiracy that runs through Silver City's most trusted citizens before the killers hired to finish him off strike again.

Deputies Pete Carmody and Pancho Zapata have watched three fugitives slip through their fingers—each time death itself seemed to intercede—until a bank robbery in Tombstone puts them on the trail of Gil Shelton, a drifter with a mysterious connection to the suspicious saloon keeper Bill Gully. As the deputies close in across desert and canyon under moonlight, they begin to uncover a pattern far darker than simple bad luck, one that reaches back to Gully's shadowy past and a web of gambling debts paid in blood.

Young Puma Hunter, a Pueblo warrior-in-training, burns to prove his courage to the tribe—especially after watching his peer Tonopah earn honors for slaying a dangerous bear. When a massive mountain lion begins slaughtering the tribe's livestock, Puma Hunter sees his chance to demonstrate the cunning and skill that Tonopah has taught him, devising a bold plan to outwit the savage beast. What unfolds tests not just his nerve, but his readiness to walk the path of a true warrior.

This gripping historical account traces the rise and fierce resistance of the Sioux tribes, from their displacement by the Ojibwa in pre-Revolutionary times through their armed struggles against American expansion. The story follows key moments in Sioux warfare—including their adoption of firearms, their major uprisings under chiefs like Little Crow and Sitting Bull, and the pivotal battle at Little Big Horn in 1876—while documenting how decades of broken treaties and westward pressure shaped their desperate fight to reclaim their ancestral lands.

When the Willard Brothers rob Mesquite's bank in 1875, a sharp-eyed cowpoke named Red follows them to their hideout and alerts Sheriff Tom White and Deputy Jim Burke to set a trap. But the outlaws' young niece Judy—a fierce spitfire who won't go down easy—gets swept up in the chaos, and what begins as a manhunt becomes something far more complicated when the sheriff realizes this orphaned girl might have a real home waiting for her.