Apache dawn

the long version

Before the dawn the settlers crowded into the one house still standing and counted their dead. There were pitifully few of them left, even including the women and children. And the canyon was alive with Apaches in the woods, in the cornfields, behind every rock and clump of grass. At first light they would attack, with guns, spears, knives, flaming arrows...and with the savage need to kill, to make an example of Eden Canyon. The settlers' last slim hope lay in the guts and cunning of one man, Jerd Galway. And they knew him as a gunfighter with a price on his head - a blood-brother of the very Apache chief who'd sworn to wipe them out! -- back cover.