Billy the Kid had been free of Garrett’s jail in Lincoln just a few weeks when he rode into Fort Sumner that fateful night in 1881 — and there, in a hail of lead, began the wildest chase in the history of the American West.
Butch Cassidy's notorious Wild Bunch was the last of the great robber bands that pistol-whipped the West from the wilds of Montana to the Mexican border. Even its mortal enemy, the Pinkerton Detective Agency, acknowledged that hell-raising gang of long-riders as men "who'd rather fight than eat."
Texas Ranger, John Ringold, rides into Tombstone on detached service. His mission -- to go undercover as John Ringo and stamp out the gangs ravaging Wells Fargo in a string of unsolved robberies and murder.
In this novel based on actual events, the notorious bandit Harry Tracy launches one of the most famous manhunts in history after a daring jailbreak.