Last Stand at Papago Wells

Logan Cates knew the many ways the Arizona desert could kill a man. He had ridden the sunblasted dunes, tracked the Apache over barren lava beds, sheltered in the dry washes of this forbidding land. Above all, he knew a man needed water to survive. Cates rode to Papago Wells a few miles ahead of an Apache war party led by the vicious Churupati. There he met a dozen desert-wanderers whom chance had led to the only water between Yuma and hell. There they came under seige by the Indians. And there they would make their stand—with little hope of living beyond the next day, and only a hard man named Logan Cates to show them how to conquer their true enemy: fear.