Applejack & Bat Masterson: Trinidad's Law

Gun-fighter! Deputy Marshal! Romantic! Friend to the Trinidad priest and Marshal Bat Masterson! Jack Applejack Martin is a youthful gun-fighting deputy! After his parents death Applejack leaves the familys hardscrabble ranch to travel to Trinidad Colorado. Along the way he fights a bandito and is badly beaten. While recovering Jack encounters a wounded outlaw and saves the gunmans life. In return the young man is taught to be a pistolero of extreme skill. Arriving in Trinidad Applejack prevents Bat Masterson from being killed and is hired by the noted marshal to become one of his deputies. The unworldly young lawman falls in love with a wealthy senorita and must confront her hateful and arrogant father. The deputys innocence but great skill with a revolver quickly elicits the respect of Trinidads residents of Masterson and of other deputies and it transforms the ranch boy into a man. Through the intriguing character of Applejack author Charlie Steel weaves a riveting and fascinating tale around very real people and events of the old West that include not only the famous marshal but also a wayward and colorful priest.