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western involving a saddle tramp involved in a saloon robbery that gets left in the desert by his partners, Suffering with busted ribs he wanders the desert until he happens upon a young girl and her two sibling, They were stranded in the desert by a broken axle and wheel and the death of their mother, What follows from this

meeting brings a smile as it is read,
A Saddle tramp Sam MacKinnon is in trouble, Doublecrossed by his partners after robbing a saloon and gambling hall, MacKinnon has been left behind in the mountains of southern New Mexico with busted ribs, a bangedup head, no gun, and no horse.
And no chancebecause aging lawman Nelson Bookbinder and his Mescalero Apache scout, Nikitaboth made legendary by dime novels MacKinnon has readare leading a small posse hot in pursuit of the bandits.
Miraculously, MacKinnon escapes the law, finds his horse and rifle, and, despite his injuries, sets out on the vengeance trail, But fate has something else in mind for Sam MacKinnon,

Miles away in the desert furnace between Ruidoso and Roswell, nineteenyearold Katie Callahan has troubles of her own, Her mother has died of tuberculosis, and her worthless stepfather has abandoned the family, leaving Katie with her younger sister and fiveyearold stepbrother, a busted wagon, a blind mule, little water and food, and her mother's body that needs to be buried.
When the wounded MacKinnon rides into that camp, he's faced with a choice,

Fate, however, still has a few other surprises in mind for the saddle tramp, the young woman, MacKinnon's partners, and even that aging New Mexico lawman.


Inspired by Paso Por Aqui, the classicnovella written by Eugene Manlove RhodesThe Bard of the Tularosaand filmed as Four Faces West, seventime Spur Award winner Johnny D.
Boggs tells a story of the detours, road blocks, and sidetracks along the journeys to justice, love, vengeance, and redemption, Johnny D. Boggs is a Spur and Wrangler Award winning author of the American West and frontier, Born in, Boggs grew up on a farm near Timmonsville, South Carolina, around the old stamping grounds of Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion chronicled in his frontier novel The Despoilers.
He knew he wanted to be a writer at an early age, He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife, Lisa Smith son, Jack Smith Boggs and basset hound, June, .