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Bret King Mystery Series #5
The Mystery at Blizzard Mesa
The Navajo reservation is snowbound and there is only one way to get food to the Indians and hay to their flocks of sheep -- an emergency airlift. In the Rimrock Ranger, Bret King and his friend Andy Buxton respond to a call for civilian volunteers.
But there is more then hunger and cold threatening the victims of the fierce Rocky Mountain blizzard. The uncle of Ace Tallchief, Bret's Indian friend, is being framed by a gang of jewel thieves, and the youthful owner of the recently opened ski lodge is suddenly beset by a series of strange events designed to thwart his flourishing new business.
Other mysterious happenings which appear to be linked together plague the flying cowboy, but first he must fulfill his original mission. As he pilots the Rimrock Ranger low over the reservation, dropping food and hay, Bret sights a deserted dwelling, called a "dead man's hogan" by the Indians, and strictly taboo. When a bearded white man emerges from the forbidden hut, the mystery deepens. Did Wolf Wilkins, Bret's hostile guide, deliberately lead him off course to drop food to the trespasser? Is the white man using the hut as a hide-out?
Join Bret King and the rangewise Rimrock Ranch cowboys as they uncover the motives behind the treacherous skulduggery in "The Mystery at Blizzard Mesa".
But there is more then hunger and cold threatening the victims of the fierce Rocky Mountain blizzard. The uncle of Ace Tallchief, Bret's Indian friend, is being framed by a gang of jewel thieves, and the youthful owner of the recently opened ski lodge is suddenly beset by a series of strange events designed to thwart his flourishing new business.
Other mysterious happenings which appear to be linked together plague the flying cowboy, but first he must fulfill his original mission. As he pilots the Rimrock Ranger low over the reservation, dropping food and hay, Bret sights a deserted dwelling, called a "dead man's hogan" by the Indians, and strictly taboo. When a bearded white man emerges from the forbidden hut, the mystery deepens. Did Wolf Wilkins, Bret's hostile guide, deliberately lead him off course to drop food to the trespasser? Is the white man using the hut as a hide-out?
Join Bret King and the rangewise Rimrock Ranch cowboys as they uncover the motives behind the treacherous skulduggery in "The Mystery at Blizzard Mesa".
182 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1961
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Dan Scott
10 books2 followersDan Scott was a pseudonym used on the Bret King mystery series published by Grosset and Dunlap. Most, if not all, of the books in the Bret King mystery series were written by S. Omar Barker.
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November 13, 2025
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It didn't feel quite right to be reading this in November with the windows open and my sleeves pushed up since there was so much snow and cold in the book, but oh well. It was still a fun read.
It was fun to have a western story set in winter with lots of snow and danger. I really like Bret’s concern for his younger siblings. That is something you don’t often read about in books. Some of this story takes place on a Navaho Indian reservation and there is one scene where the local “medicine man” does his stuff when someone is ill, but it is also mixed with some basic care that is administered and the story doesn’t say which made the character better. The scene doesn’t last very long and is not detailed.
There is lots of excitement in this story, and I appreciate that the local sheriff and other law enforcement are consulted and called in for help.
There might be a few euphemisms.
It didn't feel quite right to be reading this in November with the windows open and my sleeves pushed up since there was so much snow and cold in the book, but oh well. It was still a fun read.
It was fun to have a western story set in winter with lots of snow and danger. I really like Bret’s concern for his younger siblings. That is something you don’t often read about in books. Some of this story takes place on a Navaho Indian reservation and there is one scene where the local “medicine man” does his stuff when someone is ill, but it is also mixed with some basic care that is administered and the story doesn’t say which made the character better. The scene doesn’t last very long and is not detailed.
There is lots of excitement in this story, and I appreciate that the local sheriff and other law enforcement are consulted and called in for help.
There might be a few euphemisms.
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