Jake Logan

"While driving two lovelorn mail-order brides from Denver, Obadiah Gump is attacked by five rifle-wielding Apache braves. Fortunately for the three travelers, John Slocum happens to be passing by, on his way to deliver some horses. After the braves are gone, Slocum learns that the wagoner and his precious cargo are headed for the same town: Deadfall."--Publisher.

Slocum is recruited to hunt down "something" or someone that has mauled two men.

"Slocum is working as a cowpuncher on the edge of the North Dakota Badlands when his hotheaded boss accuses him of stealing fifty head of cattle. Next thing he knows he's been buffaloed and his horse has been stolen by his employer. But Slocum isn't the kind to lie down for anyone. And he's going to get what he's owed no matter how many bodies he leaves behind..." -- Back cover.

"When Slocum's good friend Colonel Gill McKee makes a trade for two sisters who were captured by Comanches, he agrees to return Elania and Katrina Proctor to their wealthy merchant father in Santa Fe. But with winter raging, Slocum won't be able to transport his precious cargo until the spring. At least he has some female company to keep him warm. But when a band of outlaws murders McKee's men, Slocum puts romance on the back burner in order to find...

"Jake Slocum is already riding ragged when his horse needs tending, forcing him to stop in Sleepy Creek. He's being hunted by Goose Martin--a man with a bad reputation and a worse need to put Slocum down for good. But getting killed takes a second saddle when a young man approaches him with a notion that hits harder than any bullet: the notion that Slocum is his father..."--p.[4] of cover.

After a shoot-out in Harrison's Crossing takes their guide out of commission, Slocum finds himself the unlikely escort to a pair of helpless Easterners who are penning the misadventures of the not-yet-notorious outlaw Will Stringfellow.