Böcker av R William Rogers

Twenty-three-year-old John Wainwright was pretty much a loner. He was purely content to happen around the mountains, tending his traps and living the loner existance the Lord had steered him to.But all that was tossed by the wayside the day a couple of strangers showed up needing his help with finding a pair of wagons the Utes had made off with from their wagon train. It wasn't so much just the wagons that needed finding, as it was the folks who had been caught up in the ruckus.It doesn't take long before the ensuing undertaking turns out to be one of locating and freeing the beleagured captives before it's too late. However, John's efforts to get them back gets a mite complicated after a duo of scoundrels show up and shoot one of the Utes in the process.With the captives eventually managing an escape on their own, and while trying to find their way back to the wagon train, they have a run-in with the lowlifes, and a vengeful need takes ahold of one of the gunmen that can wind up only one way.By this time, and with John having gotten himself clean up to his eyeballs in the whole thing, an arm's length relationship develops between him and one of the young women he's trying to get safely back to the wagon train.

All alone after the loss of her beloved mother and father, at the tender age of seventeen and with nothing left to her but the memories, Lois James answers an advertisement that promises a husband to care for her and a new life in Wichita.While on the train between Las Animas and Dodge City, she meets and makes friends with a kindly, middle aged gentleman whom she learns is a cattle baron of sorts with major holdings in the area around Wichita.With the two of them hitting it off right from the start, Lois learns of the recent loss of Charles' wife and daughter. However, at that time, Lois has yet to learn that she and his lost daughter have more things in common than just their outward appearance.Shortly after arriving in Wichita, and completely by accident, Lois is made aware of what she sees as the despicable, true colors of her intended. She immediately has second thoughts about following through with what she now realizes was a foolhardy undertaking on her part.Discouraged and unsure of what to do next, she is troubled by the looming necessity of facing a previously unforeseen way of life that will surely test her abilities to recognize and follow through on the life's choices that matter the most.

Wesley Swanson had just a few months prior turned thirteen and was now well on his way to becoming an integral part of the Circle C cattle ranching outfit. But all that gets shoved aside after an encounter with a massive grizzly that changes everything for him and the rest of the Clarksons and SwansonsAfter being injured as a result of a mishap while at the mercy of his fleeing mare, Wes is eventually taken prisoner by the ruthless Comanches and held captive with the intent of training him as a helper for Angry Wolf, his wife, Gentle As The Breeze, and daughter, Little Fawn.With help from their friends the Utes, Wes's family learns of his capture and settles on a plan to bargain with the Comanches for his release. However, things get complicated after Wes attempts an ill-fated escape and suffers even further injury during his recapture.With his family continuing to put their plan into effect, Wes is cared for by the young maiden, Little Fawn, who has been taught to speak the language of the White Eye by Billy Soaring Bird, who many summers before, was also brought to the village as a captive.After the plan to bargain for Wes's release is unavoidably put on hold because of an unexpected snag, it's the stealing of Little Fawn's friend, Morning Dove, that becomes a determining factor in the final outcome.

After Tom's untimely and mysterious death, Sue continues the legacy of The Bartlett. It isn't until nearly a year later following the arrival to the valley of a troubled gunfighter, Clint Blackman, that strides are made to clear up the mystery and bring the culprits to justice.As complications arise, it is then that Clint, Two Buffalos and Jimmy Slater set out as Ministers of God, on a manhunt that takes them down to Trinidad, where they are faced with administering their own brand of MUSTANG JUSTICE.

With small amounts of gold now having begun showing up around Fremont, it was just a matter of time before the unsavory types began showing up as well. What with the town being without a lawmen of its own, Pastor Chad Blackman agrees to fill the empty slot until a permanent sheriff can be brought in. After a killing upsets the usually peaceful applecart around town, Chad takes the two culprits into custody to wait for the District Marshal to make his rounds.Without a bonafide jail to hold them in, they are hog-tied and tossed into the storeroom at the rear of the feed store. But they manage to escape while killing the feed store owner in the process. During the escape, Chad seriously wounds one of the fleeing killers.The duo of undesirables had been in town awaiting the arrival of two of their pards who had just recently busted out of Territorial Prison down in Cañon City. After the wounded murderer dies from his wound, and with his remains having been devoured by the thousand-pound grizzly, Old Mose, the sworn revenge against the gun-totin' preacher is one that quickly escalates to a feverish pitch after the kidnapping of Chad's beloved wife, Jennifer.With Chad himself having been critically wounded during the taking of his wife, and with her now being used as bait to draw him out, he does his best to undertake a painstaking rescue despite the severity of his injuries.But Old Mose is still out there somewhere, and what with him having recently tasted blood, he's by far the biggest worry for everyone concerned.

Jake Pinkerton had started out alright enough, but after his mother had passed, he lost his way and reverted to running the streets of Albany with a bunch of losers who were barely managing to remain one step ahead of the law.After Jake's father, Tyler, had given him the last ditch choice of either spending a full year on his uncle's cattle ranch in Paradise, Kansas, or being written out of what would someday be a very lucrative inheritance, he begrudgingly took the offer and headed west.Patricia (Trish) Wentworth, on the other hand, had spent a good portion of her eighteen years being bounced from one foster family to another until finally she'd had enough of being used as slave labor by argumentative and, more times than not, drunken, foster parents. It was shortly after that when, unsure and afraid of what lie ahead for her, she made a clean break armed with barely the clothes on her back and an unrealistic dream of someday making something of herself showing her the way.About a week or so later, fate intervened and brought Jake and Trish together. It wasn't long before they discovered they shared many of the same interests and had much the same goals in mind. They also realized they were drawn to one another and that nothing comes about strictly by happenstance.

After noticing one another on the stock/passenger train that was headed for the pens in Buena Vista, Emily "Sissy" Swanson and Ansel Cnningham are thrown together after the train is derailed.Smitten with one another right from the start, and left afoot, they, along with members of the Circle C outfit, trek into the unknown while they attempt to find and recover their stolen cattle...and Ansel's mule.However, their efforts quickly become complicated because of outright greed, murder, savage bank robbery, and lecherous intent on the part of the men they are after.

With Sam now well on the road to recovery, things get back to a semblance of normalcy in the South Park Basin. The Circle C continues to flourish to the point where another trip to the stockyards in Georgetown becomes necessary. It is during that journey that things get complicated for the drovers of the Circle C as the Clarksons are confronted by a pair of ruthless Mexican hombres who have sworn a vendetta against all gringos.The ensuing story is one that history would just as soon forget. However, with the death toll, that summer of 1863, having reached an official 32 at the hands of the ruthless killers─with some of the prospectors and miners who lived it, putting it as high as 60─it was a very real part of the story that was the settling of the basin and surrounding mountains. Make no mistake about it, for those who managed to stay one step ahead of the treacherous Felipe Espinosa and his sworn vengeance, the summer of 1863 was one of keeping one hand on a fella's gold pan and the other on the butt end of his six-shooter.

When pretty Dolly Randolph, barely seventeen, naive, and helpless to prevent it, is viciously assaulted and her beloved father is killed, it sets in motion a driving hatred that can only be appeased by the killing of the unscrupulous man and his two sons who are responsible.Befriended and taken in by a legendary and aged ex-gunfighter, Dolly learns under his tutelage, not only how to handle a six-gun, but additionally what it takes to kill another human being.She is an avid student and learns quickly. After having been armed with the knowledge and techniques necessary to get the job done, she embarks on a relentless hunt for the three men that will come to an end one way or another as she tracks them across the harsh desert southwest, toward the sleepy little village of Juarez.

Along with the settling of the South Park Basin, comes the need to build the necessary structures on each of the individual homesteads. But when Becky falls deathly ill, things look bleak for her and her intended, Seth Clarkson.Life in the South Park Basin gets even further complicated when the bank in Fairplay is robbed and the identity of the robbers are known to at least one of the Clarksons.With the singular purpose of the Circle C outfit being to supply eatin' beef to the miners in the gold camps scattered throughout the surrounding mountains, all that gets temporarily set aside when the bank in Fairplay is robbed and the Widow Johnson is cut down in cold blood.As sometimes happens, the murdering thieves make a clean getaway, and life in the basin eventually works its way back to normal.However, barely a few months later, the ill-gotten gains run out and the outlaws realize the need for another helping of the easy pickin's they'd enjoyed previously.When one of the Clarkson brothers gets in the way and is taken captive by the fleeing outlaws, his very life hangs in the balance while his brother and the sheriff of Fairplay track him and his captors into the high reaches of the steep and treacherous Hoosier Pass.But what has been overlooked to that point by the two small groups of unsuspecting men, is the outright need and steadfast frontier determination of the brothers' wives to get themselves involved in finding and bringing their husbands home.

The Cripple Creek Mining District Series is a fact-based accounting of the discovery and early development of the gold fields in and around Cripple Creek, Colorado. Poverty Gulch tells the true story of how that gold was first discovered.History tells us that the town started out as nothing more than a small scattering of false-fronted structures that was initially known as Fremont. During its heyday, at the turn of the century, some folks say it had grown to right around fifty-thousand hardy souls. It lies nestled in a picturesque little valley that is located in the central Colorado Rocky Mountains. In actuality, the valley is the interior of an extinct volcano, and hence the reason behind all the gold.The ensuing adventure follows young Pastor Chad Blackman as he accompanies the whiskey-soaked discoverer of the whole shebang, Bob Womack, in his attempts to convince investors of the validity of his strike. The quest proves to be difficult at best as along the way they are faced with surviving the ever-present threat of the thousand pound marauding grizzly, Old Mose, unruly Utes, unscrupulous white slave traders, a close encounter with a forest fire, and Womack's general love of hitting the sauce on a regular basis.Chad's greatest difficulty, however, is surviving the complications of the heart as he pursues the affections of the beautiful and lovely Miss Jennifer Marie Lively.

After a devastating tragedy turns John Silverman's life upside down, he is consumed with tracking down and dealing with the pair of viscous, unscrupulous brothers who are responsible. Realizing that his sheriff's badge would only complicate matters, he turns the badge in to the town mayor and never looks back.His search develops into a daunting task as it leads him across four southwestern states while he is being continually sidetracked by his inner desire to help those law-abiding citizens in need of his legendary abilities with a Colt Peacemaker.

Drake Slater hadn't been held in high esteem around town since shortly after his mother had been taken from him three years earlier as a result a terrible accident that had come about through no fault of her own.Although he wasn't all that happy with the way things had turned for him, he'd managed to fall into an unsavory rut that he figured he had no chance of ever finding his way out of...that is until that fateful day when he'd literally bumped into Cindy Jacobson as she was exiting the mercantile with an armload of goods.Despite the difficult circumstances that were a direct byproduct of her father owning a cattle spread out east of town, and his pa being the proud owner of a good-sized sheep ranching operation on the west side, they managed to remain shed of all that sort of rigmarole while they stayed about one step behind in their efforts to find and do away with the ghostly alpha male the sheepmen had dubbed, "Shadow," and his dog-killing, sheep-eating pack of vicious followers.Despite the many disappointments they were faced with, the Lord had ways of showing up when He was needed and together they worked their way through the hardships while finding the time to truly fall in love.

In this, the final book in The Arkansas Valley Series, Chad, his sister, Becky, and their long-time friend, Nate, are taken from their families by a trio of vengeful heathens who are intent on holding them for ransom.During the course of their harrowing ordeal, Chad comes to realize not only the power of prayer, but additionally some of the things that have been missing from his life and keeping him from completely embracing the Lord. As a result, his faith is kindled and he is drawn back into God's grace. Somewhat troubled by all this, but armed with the abiding love and encouragement from Becky, he surrenders to the inevitable and accepts his calling to become another of God's servants.Pastor Chad Blackman's continued adventures can be found in the pages of: The Cripple Creek Mining District Series, where he establishes the WHOSOEVER WILL church amid the gold fields inside an extinct volcano that lies a bit southwest of majestic Pikes Peak.

Sheriff Gideon Hartman is not only fast on the draw, but quick to pull the trigger as well, especially when a favorable result involves reward money...that being, reward money that is sorely needed to sustain the town's church and thereby satisfy the Pastor Hartman side of him.But being stuck in the sleepy little wide spot in the trail known as Mischief, doesn't often bode well for many hombres of note happening by in that arid part of South Texas. So when a pretty young gal from down Cotulla way shows up with a need for enlisting the services of the fast gun folks have been talking about who keeps Mischief clean of, well...mischief, I'd like to say that he succumbs to her irresistible charms, but in actuality, it's the reward prospects associated with taking out the hired guns who are on the payroll of a 'ruthless land-grabbing cow-pattie of a man'-those are her words, not mine-who is bent on acquiring her ranch by any means necessary.With the promise of a lost gold mine being somewhere out there on the Rocking Double R Ranch, setting the stage for Gideon doing what he can to help Sheila and her brother, Jake, rid the town of Elbert Thayer and his bunch of henchmen, thwarting the planned takeover becomes increasingly complicated as a result of not only outright murder, but deceit on the part of one of the Rocking Double R's own trusted wranglers.Through all of this, the ensuing relationship between Gideon and Sheila Robinson is one that quickly develops into a mutual love and respect for one another that gets increasingly convoluted because of the bounty hunter side of Gideon getting in the way to the point where the Lord God Almighty finally sees fit to take a hand in it

When one of John Silverman's closest friends is murdered by the notorious gunman, Texas Willie Barnes, it sets in motion a consuming vengeance that ushers John into becoming a first-rate gunman before setting out to find Texas Willie. With nothing much to go on, as far as where Texas Willie might be, John stops off in Alva, Oklahoma to visit his brother, Connor. A few days later, Connor is killed by a ruthless lowlife named Carlos Sanchez. It is then that John meets the sheriff's beautiful daughter, Cynthia, who he soon learns is an accomplished gun handler by her own right. Because Carlos had been a thorn in Alva's backside for a good while now, she convinces John to put on hold, his search for Texas Willie and accompany her in her quest to take care of Carlos once and for all. After John accepts her offer, they set out to bring Carlos back to Alva either riding upright in his saddle or folded across it. John, however, never loses sight of his initial intent to track down Texas Willie Barnes.

After the loss of his dearly-loved wife of six years to an ailment the doc said was 'consumption', James Stanton finds himself torn between the memory of her and the guilt-ridden turmoil inside him that prevents him from committing to another woman.Waylaid, robbed and beaten by Coyote Bill Patterson and his ruthless band of thugs, Stanton struggles to survive his injuries and the hardships of the Uncompahgre Plateau while he does his best to make it back to Horsefly Bench and his outfit, the Swinging S.Badly injured and weak with fever, he is unable to go any farther. Barely clinging to life, he is found and nursed back to health by the recently-widowed, Stacey Cox. It is shortly after that when his world begins to turn upside-down once he realizes that he is experiencing feelings for her, feelings that are romantic and in direct conflict with the memory of his beloved Ella.Unwilling to readily give in to what is in his heart that threatens to forever erase Ella's memory, he becomes embroiled in exacting justice on Coyote Bill and his henchmen for not only the way he'd been beaten and left for dead, but the outright murder of Stacey's husband, as well.

BIRDSONG OF THE PENATEKA is an unlikely love story between two members of opposing Comanche tribes. It is a must read for fans of the award-winning: Book 1 of The Arkansas Valley Series, titled: TOWARD A NEW BEGINNING. It continues the exploits of the beautiful Comanche woman, Birdsong, after her successful returning of the children to their White Eye families in the wagon train.Shortly after embarking on her return trip to the Penateka village, where she is eager to begin her new life as the woman of her beloved Running Antelope, Birdsong is taken captive by the Arapaho after she blunders into the path of their hunt for the mighty buffalo. She is then held with the intent of selling her to another plains tribe. But her gift as a 'healing one' earns her her freedom and she becomes entangled in a harrowing adventure that begins soon after she is reunited with Running Antelope and three Comanche braves who had set out to find and rescue her.When the three well-intentioned Comanche braves are taken prisoner by Crooked Face and his ruthless band of renegade Utes, things quickly become complicated for Running Antelope and Birdsong, shortly after they set out to free their friends.Along the way, they recruit the help of a collection of unlikely individuals, each of whom has his own reasons for wanting to see Crooked Face dead.The story is filled with love, hate, vengeance, ruthlessness and persistence on the part of a mixed band of Indians.The ensuing trek into the harsh and unforgiving lands of the Llano Estacado, of western Texas and eastern New Mexico, is one of hardship and tenacity. It is a journey that pits each against the others, and all against the Utes as well as the Lipan and the Mescalero Apaches.

The AT&SF Railroad finally comes to the Arkansas Valley. But its construction is not without peril, bigotry and outright hatred. Right along with the arrival of the railroad comes the need for compassion and understanding as the Chinese workmen are subjected to abusive hardships and even murder at the hands of the Yankee bosses. Then, as if that were not enough, they are additionally being cheated out of a good portion of their hard-earned pay.When Chad and his best friend, Nate, are eyewitness to the abuse, Clint is thrust to the forefront and takes the lead in bringing the culprits to justice...frontier style.

The railroad has finally come to Como, bringing with it the promise of a whole new way of doing business for the Circle C spread.But even that has to take a back seat to Wesley's attempts to tie up the loose ends that stand between him and Little Fawn committing completely to one another and becoming man and wife.With the very real intent of doing just that being uppermost to his way of thinking, his efforts are temporarily put on hold when Little Fawn and Sissy are both taken captive by a bunch of ruthless Apaches who are dead set on making life miserable for everyone involved.Wesley and Billy Soaring Bird manage to overtake the captors and eventually free the girls from their abusive imprisonment, but not without Wesley undergoing the moral expense of having to take the lives of two of the Apache warriors.With Little Fawn now safely back home in her Comanche village and Billy Soaring Bird escorting Wesley and Sissy back to the Circle C, the two remaining warriors stalk the travelers with the sole intent of avenging the deaths of their brothers.

This story is not necessarily one of the Civil War, or the gold-seekers that were darned near everywhere around the area, but rather one of the coming together and fighting for survival of a bunch of cattle ranchers that settled in and around the Cuchara Valley near La Veta, Colorado, while they went about fulfilling their dream of building an empire. However, with the influence of the war in the area being what it was, anyone would be hard-pressed to completely avoid the atrocities that were being committed by members of both sides.The collective partnership of homesteaders, who lived on and operated the cattle ranching outfit called 'The Spoon', were no exception.

With their temporary log-and-sod ranch house now complete, John and the rest of the Cuchara Valley homesteaders set their sights on obtaining a herd of longhorns to get their ranch off on the right foot. The ensuing journey to a cattle town gets complicated right from the get-go when, the day before they begin their journey, the bank in La Veta is robbed and three of the local citizens are killed in the process. Things then get personal after they discover that one of the bad guys is Willie 'One-Eye' Sloan, who gave Andy and some of the others a hard time about six months back. Along the way, the travelers are joined by a posse from Las Animas who have reasons of their own for wanting to catch up to and bring the band of outlaws to justice. With an ever increasing trail of death and destruction leading the way, the murdering gang of robbers will stop at nothing to get away, while their pursuers remain steadfast to their task.

Set around the battlefields of Lexington, Missouri, this is the mostly-true story of Willard 'Bud' Hansel and Zeke 'Junebug' Jamison. It depicts the grim realities of the downright hatred and vengeance that shaped the lives of those who fought the Civil War.With the 1st Illinois Cavalry having nearly been wiped out on an obscure hillside somewhere near Lake Of The Ozarks, in Missouri, Bud regains consciousness amid the protection of the branches of a fallen tree. As the far-away sounds of battle continue farther down the hillside he wonders what fate has befallen his best friend, Junebug.With Junebug having been taken prisoner by a rag-tag squad of Rebs it is up to Bud to free him. He manages to get it done, but not before his friend suffers ruthless abuse at the hands of one of the Rebs in particular, a low-life no-account named Akers. With the battle lines having been drawn, Bud and Junebug set out to find Akers and get their payback. However, their mission in life gets seriously sidetracked when they are taken prisoner at William Jacks Ferry.This fact-filled historical story is packed with abuse, vengeance, the high-risks of spying on the enemy, and the levity that having a devoted friend can bring to the otherwise unthinkable hardships and chaos that was the Civil War.

Having lost both her parents to a devastating tornado, fourteen-year-old Rebecca Ann Jordan is raised for the next few years by her only living relatives, an aunt and uncle in Salina, Kansas.Although she is treated well by them, she nonetheless eventually opts for the adventures that are commonly associated with the unknown and sets out for Wichita and whatever the Lord has in store for her.During the stagecoach journey, she befriends a debutante from back east and a Cherokee half breed maiden.In relatively short order, the three of them become nearly inseparable while they pursue the loves of their lives amid the backdrop of the everyday chores associated with the Rocking H's spring roundup, while the success of the endeavor is sorely threatened by a trio of would-be rustlers and a small band of determined Cherokee warriors.

With Bud and Junebug now safely out of the war, they embark on a harrowing trip that stretches from Independence, Missouri, to Washoe City, Nevada.Their intent is to drive a herd of about sixty head of horses and mules to the lumber camps at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where they are assured of selling the animals at a handsome profit. Easy enough...right?They are accompanied by members of the old outfit and they all do their darndest to keep the herd safe by fighting off henchmen of the notorious Tommy Drum's gang of army deserters who are intent on stealing the herd.Along the way, they take in a pretty little gal named Polly Adams, whose parents were killed during an attack on their ill-fated wagon train.After she is taken captive by one of Drum's men, (their old nemesis, Tom Akers) Bud and Junebug set out to find and rescue her while being drawn into a search that can end in only one of two ways, either Akers will have to die, or...

After losing their parents in a tragic stagecoach accident, siblings Stella and Mark Crawford are faced with braving the unknown as they set out to complete their journey to Wichita to finish what their father had started and take over the mercantile. Along the way, they meet Chase Broderick who is also headed to Wichita with the intent of filling the vacant position of town sheriff as a first step to fulfilling his life's dream of saving up enough money to someday buy a small cattle ranch. However, unbeknownst to him, his longtime friend, Hiram Jennings - who was the owner of the mercantile - was recently killed while trying to stop a foursome of ruthless bank robbers. With Chase's help, Stella and Mark work a deal with Hiram's widow to acquire the store. Soon after the brother and sister are settled in to running the mercantile the way Mr. Jennings would have liked, Chase meets with the mayor and gets sworn in as Sheriff and things start to happen that would lead him to various towns across Kansas and Oklahoma. Through all this, Stella and Chase soon realize they are drawn to each other with the same dreams and wants.

Rebecca had spent nearly her entire twenty-three years as a seemingly forsaken orphan in a Catholic-ran orphanage in Chicago. However, when one of the Sisters informs her of an advertisement for a wife and mother to replace the one who had been lost to an accident during the harvest on a hay farm out West in Dodge City, Kansas, with high hopes she jumps at the opportunity to fulfill her life-long dream of belonging to a real family, makes the necessary travel arrangements, and is soon on her way to the Western Frontier.During the journey, she is witness to a cold-blooded murder at the hands of a fellow traveler who is also a well-liked businessman in Dodge City.With her main focus on winning over her newlywed husband's two teenage children, Becky does what she can to deal with the many challenges facing her, while never losing sight of the things that matter to her the most.

Driving a herd of three-hundred head of ornery, opinionated cattle, from Dodge City, Kansas, to a fella's homestead in the Cuchara Valley of southeastern Colorado, isn't an easy matter by any man's measure. Then add to that the fact that three of the eight drover/owners are women and you have a group of folks who are intent on getting home by any means necessary.With their chosen route being the Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail, nothing is predictable, and harsh weather, sleepless nights, a couple of fellas bent on getting revenge on the drovers for choosing to take in and protect a mother and her daughter-who it was felt had rightfully ended the days of a lowlife scumbag-and you have the makings of a trail drive that is both demanding and nerve-wracking as the members of the outfit do their darndest to get home safely while being forced to watch their backtrail nearly the entire way.

Along with the deaths of Arthur Rhodes and his henchmen, comes a time of security and well-being to the Arkansas Valley in general and The Bartlett Ranch in particular, that has now been renamed Shiloh.As Clint and Sue embark on a rewarding and fruitful life together as husband and wife, they are quickly blessed with two wonderful but mischievous children, Chad and Rebecca.With the railroad now drawing ever closer to becoming a reality, old wounds are reopened because of the greed of an unscrupulous man named Heywood Jensen, who will stop at nothing to gain complete control of the ranch. As proof of that, he hires on a handful of gunfighters who are not only a very real threat to Clint, Jimmy, and Two Buffalos, but one of them has a personal grudge to settle with Clint.

Tinsdale and Jennifer Carter had enjoyed a relatively trouble-free seven years of blissful marriage until one dreadful morning when, as a result of a tragic accident, all that became barely a memory for Tinsdale and an empty void for Jennifer.With Tin's every waking moment geared toward trying to spark memories of their previous times spent together on their Diamond C cattle spread, things get further complicated when the bank in Tascosa is robbed and Tin and Jenny get involved up to their ears with the posse that has set its sights on tracking the fugitives to Blackwater Draw and even farther south into the part of the Llano Estacado that is home to the Mescaleros.