RANGER'S JUSTICE - Desert Trail

[Brett Black]

Brett Black and his gang made it to water hole #1 

With No sines of anyone on their trail .  

 

[Smoken D]

Meanwhile back in town the posse had gathered up and headed out with Pete leading the way.

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Ranger Cool returning from Fort Belknap decided to stop for the night knowing he could not make it to Tarrant before daybreak. It was going to be a chilly night as he refrained from starting a campfire for fear of being discovered by Comanches.

[Brett Black]

The Comanches have been on a raid out in the desert.

Raping and pillaging every white settler they come across.

[Cactus Jack Calder]

As Pete began tracking the gang, he realized they were headed for the old Blackbird Trail into Mexico. “Looks like they’s headed fur thu old Blackbird Trail to Mexico fellers,” said Pete. “Ifn they gets too fur ahead of us we’ll never ketch’m.” “We’d best ride hard fur a spell, ‘n see ifn we can close thu gap.”

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Memory hit Deborgille like a trapped river out of a busted dam.

[Hashknife Cowboy]

The Indian was dressed in animal skins, his eyes were as black as coal.  The pony was shod, uncommon for an Indian pony, was the mount stolen or was this a half breed?  The image was etched into his brain and caused confusion.

[Brett Black]

Brett Black and his gang road threw the night to get as far as they could .

The gang has several hideouts off the Old Blackbird Trail. 

[Pat Riot]

In the morning the posse rose to bright sunlight and the smell of young Deputy Cole’s coffee. It was cold but the coffee and the fire helped warm things up a bit.

[Brett Black]

Meanwhile back in town the rest of the Brett Black gang that stayed behind .

Started out for the Old Blackbird Trail .

They knew they would have the  advantage if the gang was being followed .

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Waking up in a cold sweat, Ranger Cool quickly realized his sighting of the Indian and pony was just a dream. Dawn had just broken, and it was time he hit the trail again, as he should make it to Tarrant by noon. Throwing the blanket his wife had made him onto his mount and cinching his saddle, he was ready to get out of this God-forsaken place. 

[Smoken D]

Pete told the posse, No food yet fellows, only coffee. Then we gotta hit the trail fast and hard. Get ready to mount up.

[Cactus Jack Calder]

As we started out that morning I said to Ranger Ed, ‘Kind of drift off to the back of the posse and watch our back Trail.’ ‘This is wild country and the Comanche have been raiding.’ ‘We don’t want to get caught flat footed.’

[Brett Black]

The Comanche Indians,

Have been trading with the Mexican Comancheros  , Horses for guns. 

And the have been meeting in the desert on the

Old Blackbird Trail .

[Rye Miles #13621]

We should split up the posse and circle around them, we used to do that with the cattle herds and it worked pretty well, said Rye.

[Brett Black]

Old Pete piped in and said to the Posse we all need to pay attention because the comancheros and the Comanches could be right around the corner I know what they've been up too

[Rye Miles #13621]

Rye made sure his 73 was fully loaded and also checked his Colt. "Trouble's ahead I can feel it," he said.

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Jerez closed his hand around Deborgille's fingers, feeling her tremor, seeing her shake:  when finally she swallowed and looked up at him, her eyes bright with memory, bright with tears, she whispered, "Can you forgive me?"

[Cactus Jack Calder]

After scouting ahead, Old Pete returned to where the Posse tensely waited. “Sign up ahead sez, they’s a bunch of Comanch travl’n on thu same trail as thu gang.” “I spect them injuns is trail’n thu gang look’n fur scalps ‘n plunder.” “If’n we wuz to sneak up ceerful like we might be able to surpriz 'm.” “I recun if we was to hit ‘m from behind as theh jumped Brett Black we might have ‘m in a squeez theh wouldn’t care fur.”

[Brett Black]

Brett Black and his gang made it to one of the hideouts to get some well needed  rest  

for them and the horses .

[Maddog McCoy SASS #5672]

Having provided the distraction at the saloon for the gang to rob the bank, Maddog now had the entire town to himself since the posse left.

[Maddog McCoy SASS #5672]

When the rest of the gang gathered up to leave town and ambush the posse, Maddog told them to leave his share in the usual place and to tell Brett Black that he would catch up in a week or two.

[Brett Black]

What the rest of the

Brett Black gang don't know is Maddog is Bretts cousin on his mother's side and Brett and Maddog always has a Secret backup plain .

[Rye Miles #13621]

The posse caught up with the gang as they were filling their canteens at a creek.  Rye took out his trusty 73 and took a shot from horseback, he nailed one of the gang members in the head and he fell in the creek while he was filling his canteen. The others scattered like scared birds!

[Cactus Jack Calder]

With the shot from Rye, the gang scattered into cover. The posse found cover on high ground and the fight was on. The shooting sounded like one continuous roll of thunder. 

[Maddog McCoy SASS #5672]

Back in town, Maddog walked the street and noticed all that was left was politicians, old men, women and children, Bottles and the saloon ladies.

[Brett Black]

Brett Black and the boys are in a real pickle .

They are between the creek bed  and there horses .

With the posse shooting in every direction .

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Ranger Cool heard the sound of horse hoofs approaching him from behind at a fast pace. Fearing Comanche Indians, he guided his horse off the trail into the underbrush. A sigh of relief came over him as he saw the approaching Wells Fargo stage round the bend, and the Ranger returning to the trail just as the stagecoach driver pulled hard on the reins coming to an abrupt halt, a cloud of choking dust swallowing up the entire scene.

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Miz Lorelei's expression betrayed her surprise as Jerez set the heavy poke in her hand, a poke that gave the distinct clink of coin:  Deborgille stood beside him, pale, her cheeks red, her eyes a little swollen from crying, but resolute, her hands around the dark-eyed man's arm.

 

[Brett Black]

The other half of Brett Blacks gang come slowly up behind the posse ,

shooting at the gang on the other side of the creek .

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

And the Comanche came up behind them!

[Painted Mohawk SASS 77785]

The comanche waited & watched  [ and laughed ]as the white eyes' killed each other, meanwhile Brett Back became separated from the rest of the gang & worse had taken a bullet to his left leg.

[Brett Black]

Painted Mohawk one of the Older braves leading the Comanche  scouting party ,

caught a stray bullet to the chest from all the crossfire .

 

Brett tied off his grazed left leg and

With the posse in a crossfire ,

Brett Black made if off with his horse and the bank money.

The gang continued to fight wile Brett and his security team got away .

[Smoken D]

After Painted Mohawk was hit, the chief decided that was enough and to attack Brett Blacks gang first.

[Maddog McCoy SASS #5672]

The mayor, shop keepers, banker and important citizens of the town were complaining about the lack of protection from the never-do-goods and riffraff coming into town due to posse chasing Brett Black's gang when Maddog interrupted their meeting and offered his services to protect the town.