Bestselling author and creator of Rambo, David Morrell, offers an engaging foreword that highlights the early American frontier and what it took for individuals to survive in rugged landscapes and a rapidly changing era. This survival quartet will have you turning the pages late into the night. ""The Buffalo Trace"" by Larry D. Sweazy:Hallie Mae Edson and her brother, Tom, join the newly formed Indiana Territorial Rangers. When another Ranger disappears, Hallie comes face to face with danger in a way she has never faced before. She not only has to save the Ranger, but herself, with skills, will, and courage she didn't know she had. ""Two Old Comanches"" by Johnny D. Boggs:Imprisoned in a dark, damp and inhospitable Army post in St. Augustine, Florida, an aging Comanche warrior and his sick, old best friend attempt a desperate escape and even more arduous trek back to their homeland. ""Fire Mountain"" by Michael Zimmer:A ragtag crew of muleskinners hired to deliver a pack train of badly needed supplies to a high country community finds itself caught between a mountain on fire above them and, behind them, a band of killers determined to prevent them from succeeding. With the flames closing in and lead starting to fly, their odds for survival are rapidly dwindling. But the killers hadn't counted on how mule-headed a muleskinner can be. ""Bloodline"" by Matthew P. Mayo:One beating too many causes a kicked-cur, half-breed youth to flee the wrath of Bull Barr, his brute of a grandfather, who blames the boy for his ceaseless poor luck. But the relentless old man hunts the boy without mercy. He cannot let him live, for the boy knows too many family secrets.