Bullet Trail

Formerly published as Bullets for Buckaroos, in this episode Stony Brooke and Lullaby Joslin join their long time partner, Tucson Smith, collectively known as The Three Mesquiteers, in Tucson's fight against rustlers. But not only rustlers does Tucson has to face, there is another element to the puzzle he has to solve, and it started with a dead man's 45, and leads to the smuggling of Chinese into the United States across the Mexican Border. Yes, I said,Chinese. About an hundred years ago, it was not the illegal trafficking of Mexicans which was the problem the immigration service had to fight but that of illegal Chinese entering the country--see also Zane Grey's novel Desert Gold for more on this activity. Colt MacDonald writes another fine tale featuring his three most famous characters.