Savage Country

<p>The West was never won it was taken. One life at a time.</p><p>In these fourteen hard-edged frontier tales Timothy J. Welter drags the reader into a world of outlaws deserters drifters and gold-mad killers whose lives burn fast and bright against a country as unforgiving as the men who wander it. From the Natchez Trace to the Gila Trail the stories cross decades and empires following ordinary people who become dangerous when pushed too far.</p><p>A Choctaw healer rescues a dying outlaw.<br>Two wagon guards take justice into their own hands.<br>A river hermit hunts the warriors who took his only friend.<br>A young outlaw refuses to participate in a slave-stealing scheme.<br>A widow on the Gila learns that survival sometimes requires a thief's heart.<br>And a line of killers Mormon raiders Cherokee warriors Confederate-born filibusters-leave a trail of blood across the continent.</p><p>Brutal atmospheric and haunting [Your Title Here] captures the true spirit of the old frontier: not the myth but the raw dangerous truth that shaped a nation.</p>