John Henry Cole, working as a deputy U.S. marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker's court in Arkansas, was on assignment in the Indian Nations, in pursuit of a group of white renegades who were in hiding there above all a particularly vicious renegade named Caddo Pierce. He had a wagon of captive renegades when he was shot and seriously injured. He managed to come out of the Nations with his prisoners, but decided that he had enough of that job and so resigned....

John Henry Cole is an operative of Ike Kelly's Detective Agency, based out of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. But after a deadly assignment in Deadwood, Cole decides he needs to pursue a different line of work. Then Ike Kelly is murdered and no one seems to have any idea who might have done it. Leo Foxx, the town marshal, is so disinterested in the crime that he has yet to start an investigation. So Cole decides to start his own.

John Henry Cole and his posse of bounty hunters get the tables turned on them when seemingly cornered fugitives are actually setting up an ambush, in the latest adventure of the Wyoming ex-lawman. John Henry Cole worked for years in Cheyanne, Wyoming. First as a policeman, and later a detective. He enjoyed the work, despite its dangers, but it was time for a change. So he decided to open his own agency, one staffed former lawmen like himself. In...