Promise to a dead man

the long version

Davy Nelson rode into Crockett, Texas, exhausted but pleased. He figured he had just about completed the promise he had made to his dying partner on the battlefield near Seven Pines, Virginia two years earlier. But, when he climbed down off his bay in front of Roche's saloon, he landed in enough trouble to forever change his life. He hadn't counted on greedy Yankee carpetbaggers who were saddling local ranchers with usurious taxes to steal land for pennies on the dollar, especially since one of the ranches belonged to his dead partner's family. Knowing he had a battle on his hands, he hunkered down for the fight. Outgunned ten to one, Davy Nelson fought back the way he learned in the Confederate Cavalry; hit and run, decimate the enemy, force them into fatal mistakes. And do it quick - before they hang you.