For years Canavan had lived in peace with th e Apache. But that time had come to a brutal end. The fierce renegades had swept down from the mountains, his neighbours were massacred and Edith, his fiancee, was taken captive. '
Lewis Byford Patten was a prolific author of American Western Novels, born in Denver, Colorado. Often published under the names Lewis Ford, Len Leighto and, Joseph Wayne.