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It's the Az Territory. The entire year, 1848. The entire year the Mexican Warfare ended. Destiny and blazing pistols have just thrown alongside one another reporter and part-time drunk Marion T. Bell and the nearly legendary John Charles Hart, mustanger and scout, in the Little Fanny Saloon. Plying the river-trade across the Colorado to the rare metal fields of California in the north, and war-torn Mexico to the south, the city of Gable's Ferry has sprung up overnight-lacking only a church, a schoolhouse and a prison. Though some would say that only the prison was needed. A tough put in place a lawless period. About to turn into a hell of much more so one evening when Hart, Bell and the easy-going large Mom Knuckles stumble upon Elena, a brutal, young, badly wounded Mexican female near the banking institutions of the Colorado. She's naked. She's been bullwhipped, knifed and brand name. And she says them about the kidnap, rape and servitude she and her sister have endured at the hands of las hermanas de lupo, the fatal Valenzura Sisters and their henchman, the deserter Paddy Ryan, at the well-manned slave-camp across the river aptly called Garanta del Diablo-Mouth of the Devil. It's just 3 hundred years since Cortez. Only 3 hundred years since the Old Gods of Mexico were in their full and fearsome bloom. Tezcatlipoca, god of the moon and the night time. Tlazolteotl, Eater of Filth. Xipe, Lord of the Flayed. Blood for rain. Blood for bounty. For many, like the Valenzura Sisters, they haven't passed away. And Elena's sister's still there. This is a Crossroad Press creation.
