The Hostile Trail

the long version

BLOODRED RAGE In the winter of 1866, trail partners Matt Slaughter and Brister are hunting elk in the high lonesome of the Bighorn Mountains. But a clash with a Sioux-led by the dreaded Iron Claw-turns the knee-deep red snow red with blood. Only the deadly fire of Matt's Henry rifle-*the feared spirit gun*-gets Ike and him out alive. With Iron Claw raiding any whites using the Bozeman Trail, Matt and Ike head to Fort Loraine to sign up as cavalry scouts. When Matt's girl is taken captive, a bloody showdown with Iron Claw is inevitable. And it's destined to take place in a valley called Little Bighorn....