Bloody Merchants' War (Valediction for Revenge)

Poor farmers and ranchers gripped in bondage by an iron triangle of crooked merchants, an oppressive military regime, and a corrupt Territorial government. Lincoln County New Mexico was not a good place for a fugitive wanting only to blend peacefully, without attention into his surroundings. Instead, Jethro Spring is ambushed by events beyond his control; events that spiral into a conflict without clear distinctions between good and evil, right or wrong, friend and enemy. Eventually the young fugitive chooses, but did he make the right choice? With Billy the Kid? For John Chisum? It was indeed a Bloody Merchants' War.

No, Roland Cheek hasn't been in a gunfight at the O.K. Corral or pushed dogies down the streets of Abilene. But he has straddled rawboned ponies over 35,000 miles of the toughest trails in all the Northern Rockies and spent five decades wandering the wild country. Now he's telling his stories around your campfire.