Fort Buzzard

A party of land surveyors has been wiped out in the Rocky Mountains, and the common story blames the Crow. Not everyone believes it. Army Lieutenant Ron Stanton is sent to learn what really happened in those remote, blood-soaked peaks, and he hires two of the frontier's toughest guides to take him there: the mountain man known as Preacher and Jamie MacCallister, a Scottish clan rancher. To retrace the doomed party's route, the three must first pass through Fort Buzzard. Officially it is Gullickson's Fort, but the name that stuck comes from the human vultures gathering around it, the brawlers and hardcases Gullickson pays to guard his interests. It is a grim stopover, and trouble finds the travelers fast. When a nearby trading post is raided and two young women are carried off, the blame again falls on Indians. Preacher and Jamie sense something rotten. The Crow insist they had no part in the raid, the abductions or the massacre of the surveyors, and the two frontiersmen believe them. Proving it is another matter, and every lead seems to end against a wall. This is a team-up of two of William W. Johnstone's best-known Western heroes, with a conspiracy of cruel killers behind the bloodshed and a violent final showdown waiting in the high country.