Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.

Two men. One woman. A land that demanded courage - or death. He was a man etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and ways of staying alive. She was a woman raising a young son on her own on a remote Arizona ranch. And, between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now, the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior...

While traveling on a stagecoach in southern Arizona, Falcon MacCallister is ambushed but the only people who die are the shotgun guard and a young Indian woman who is the daughter of a powerful chief and now Falcon must find the murderers before innocent people are killed due to the chief's vengeace.

"An ingenious tale [that] takes its heart from Dickens and its soul from America’s great outlaw West." —ElleHalf Apache and mostly orphaned, Edgar Presley Mint’s trials begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman’s jeep accidentally runs over his head. As he is shunted from the hospital to a school for delinquents to a Mormon foster family, comedy, pain, and trouble accompany Edgar through a string of larger-than-life...

Flagon and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. They found a big, wide, lonely country and, at first, plenty of room. Then Bull Dunn and his two sons decided they wanted it all. When the battle for possession of the land began, Flagon was already in bad shape. He had been taken by Apache Indians, and by the time he escaped, just surviving left him in no condition for any kind of trouble. Bull Dunn's son, Curly, was determined...

"Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and had managed to take something of value from his battles--respect for the Apaches as warriors. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap Tell's nephew, forcing him to cross the border into the Sierra Madres to bring the boy back."--Back cover

Logan Cates rode to Papago Wells a few miles ahead of an Apache war party led by the vicious Churupati. There he met a dozen desert-wanderers whom chance had led to the only water around.