A History of the New England Fisheries (1911)

Book #10 in The Y Track series brings big Bill Bentley and a tenacious Lucky Walker together as young partners and novice bounty hunters during the Civil War era. Tough, naive and ultra daring, the two are hot on the trail of a fleeing outlaw when they become involved with much bigger game. Infiltrated throughout the country, an offshoot, traitorous and zealous organization is sabotaging Union war efforts by supplying and supporting the Confederate cause. The organization’s ultimate goal is to topple the United States Government, along with the man and his circle of advisors who head it. Cotton Joe, an escaped slave, enlists Lucky’s help in tracking and capturing six cult soldiers who set fire to a canyon trestle to bring down a train and confiscate top secret documents. In a time warp since being framed and abandoned in old time Phoenix, a now middle-aged Dan Williams tempts fate by building a method of escape before he mentally implodes. Gathering the last of his physical and emotional reserves, Dan abruptly lands amidst mountainous pines, smack dab in the middle of big Bill’s doings. An impossible duo of foppish sensitivity versus virile manhood the two rarely see eye-to-eye and after a suspicious and unexplained three days of possible debauchery, Dan and big Bill part ways. Backed into a corner and unable to uncover the ringleaders of the ‘men in black’, big Bill swallows his pride and sends a signal across time to enlist Dan’s help. The two agree to cooperate in an out of context attempt to rewrite erred history. Sensual and poignant in part, sexual and ribald at best, the saloons, boarding houses and jail houses of 1863 Ash Fork, Arizona are rife with meaningful and telling memories in this gripping ongoing saga of the Old West.