Jim Birts

Cazz Reed Lawman: Trailing South into the Sierras Jim Birts

Publisher Marketing: The last manhunt Deputy Marshall Cazz Reed went on led him North into the forbidding landscape of the Badlands of Montana, America's wild Northernmost plains, on a hunt for four Buffalo Soldiers who had deserted their unit in the aftermath of a deadly confrontation in a small West Texas town. That confrontation was the result of mistreatment of one of their own by drunken meat hunters for the Army and other blowhards in the town. A Mexican vaquero, ignorant of their past, rode with them out of friendship for their leader, on Daniel Parham. With no real regard of their past the vaquero rode with them, sharing only the common fact that they were being pursued by the relentless arm of the law. The soldiers had deserted their post and went 'on the scout' only to inadvertently compound their military offense by the necessity of becoming outlaws and bank robbers in their desperate attempt to evade capture by the law - - the law in the person of a lawman named Cazz Reed, who face they had never seen. But then too, neither had he seen theirs. All he had was his writ, and he meant to serve it, and with dogged determination he set out to do just that. Only one of their number was fortunate enough to escape the iron hand justice, and that was purely by chance. He is known only as "the Mexican" to the court, and now Cazz, the Lawman, is on the scout looking for him on a perilous pursuit that will take him on a dangerous and arduous journey, trailing south.