Wild Bill Hickok #22

Wild Bill Hickok scouts the Apache Trail when Chief Long Tail and his Jicarillo Apache warriors launch raids across the territory—first ambushing a cavalry column, then systematically blockading the mountain passes and striking ranches and wagon trains. With Fort Bascom cut off and the raids escalating, Hickok must break through Long Tail's stranglehold on the region and rally the cavalry to stop the bloodshed.

John Watkins, the Fighting Parson, arrives in Blanco's Run to preach—but finds himself caught between a wrongfully accused man facing the gallows, a lovely woman caught in blackmail, and a ruthless gambler's scheme to make her his bride. When Marilyn Ives discovers the truth behind a murder and a frame-up, she must choose between protecting her father and saving an innocent life, setting her on a collision course with the man holding her fate in his hands.

Wild Bill Hickok witnesses a clever frame-up scheme when a gambler and killer named Tex Baily uses his identical half-brother Drew—a con artist recently run out of town—to establish an alibi for a stagecoach robbery. As the sheriff struggles to untangle the deception, a mining detective named Burnette travels to St. Louis to uncover the truth about the brothers' connection. The race is on to catch the culprits before they strike again with another carefully planned robbery.

Scout Jeb Tate is sent into Apache country by General Miles to uncover the cause of violent treaty violations sweeping the Southwest—and his investigation points directly to the ruthless Geronimo, who has orchestrated the raids to seize power among the tribes. When Tate is captured and forced to fight for his life in the Apache camp, he must escape and rejoin the cavalry for a final reckoning in the canyon where Geronimo makes his stand.