Free (Kindle) Red Man's Mesa by Gordon Landsborough [Frontier Conflict Western]

[ATDrake]

Red Man's Mesa by the late English author Gordon Landsborough (Wikipedia), a prolific and pioneering multi-genre pulp fiction writer and publisher, is his vintage standalone western historical action adventure novel, this one a tale of military men on the frontier, starring a tough Sergeant riding herd on mischief-making troopers, as they come across dead bodies which are part of a suspicious ambush and other incidents which may be an attempt to spark deadly conflict between the local Native Americans and assorted settler groups, as the investigating squad finds themselves deep in hostile territory when the situation escalates, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Pioneering imprint.

This was originally published in 1953 by Hamilton & Co Ltd using the pseudonym Mike M'Cracken, as no. 82 in their Panther Books pulp fiction line.

Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)

Description
The fight is on…

Sergeant Clagg M’Glue is well-known as a no-nonsense, to-the-books military man.

For the most part, his men respect him. But a gang of five mischief-makers, spear-headed by Trooper Rhett Coan, are causing trouble.

But as long as they’re a part of his outfit, M’Glue will bring them in line.

In the desert, they soon come across a landscape of bodies, barely a day dead. The arrows in their backs tell a story of an Indian ambush.

But M’Glue isn’t so sure. Some of those men died in gunfire, not just arrows, but who, aside from Indians, could be out in the desert?

They bury the bodies, and on M’Glue’s rigid insistence take the only thing left behind: a US Cavalry gun.

To add to their troubles, they come to a railway settlement in the midst of riot – a drunken fit of Irishmen, trying to burn Chinamen in their huts.

It’s only through gumption and guns that M’Glue, with the help of Trooper Buster Ashe, – a mysterious Texan – manage to quell the rioters and help the Chinamen escape.

But, in a fit of bad luck, the restless Irishmen overhear about the ambush and in an act of revenge, they burn down an Indian village.

M’Glue has fought enough Indians to know that this means war.

The settlers must move on or face certain death by the vengeful tribes. If they travel by darkness, they might just outrun the Indians.

Exhausted and out of options, they rest on a ‘taboo’ Indian mesa but with no hope of rescue and no chance of escaping, they’re trapped.

Unless the wily M’Glue can figure something out…

Set in the old, wild American frontier, Red Man’s Mesa is a classic gun-toting Western, filled with plenty of action, intrigue and suspense for a true page-turner of a novel.

[Dr. Drib]

Thank you for the updates on the Western genre, which I very much appreciate.

I'm going to hold off on most of the future presentations and try to actually read some of them, but only after I finish reading my Peter Field [Brett Halliday] westerns.