The Bounty Hunter

The Bounty Hunter: The Legend Begins is the story of Peter “Spike” Davis, who leaves his parents’ Missouri farm to find his fortune in the West. By happenchance, he stumbles upon the role of hunting men for the reward on their heads, and discovers he has a talent for tracking, capturing, or killing humans. He takes some of the reward money he has accumulated, and buys a small cattle ranch in Bent County, Colorado, only to find there are no cows as were promised.

The Bounty Hunter: The Wheelers continues the story of Spike Davis. Now he has his brothers, Chip and Jeb, to help with the wild mustang operation, and their assistance in his life as a bounty hunter that seems to keep calling him back. Once the Wheeler brothers are captured and locked up in jail, Spike goes back to the ranch only to find out they have escaped and vowed to kill him and his family. While they are chasing the Wheelers, two more Wheeler brothers escape from prison in Missouri and head for Colorado to kill the bounty hunter who hounded their brothers.

Chip Davis gets mauled by a Cougar, while elk hunting and is nursed back to health by White Dove, a white woman named Melissa Johnson, who was adopted by the Cheyenne. The Cheyenne agreed to let him leave with the warning that they would kill Melissa if he led white men to their camp. Jeb gets drygulched on his way back to the Davis ranch, after selling horses to the army and has to contend with three bandits.

The Davis brothers had survived the Wheelers and the Solomons, and now they were faced with a new threat. Iffin Smith was a no count from the Missouri Ozarks with little in the way of skills. The thing he was good at was killing. Ma Solomon paid Iffin $300.00 to go to Colorado and kill the Davises. On the way, he honed his killing skills and survived an Indian attack. After being saved from certain death by Jeb Davis, he recovers from his wounds at the Davis ranch and thinks about the reason for his trip to Colorado, and his promise to Ma Solomon.

The Davis brothers saga continues when two girls are taken hostage by Comancheros. The Davises are hired to go after the girls and return them to their parents. Chip and Spike accept the task. They leave Jeb in charge of the ranch and ride off with Andy trotting along beside them. The brothers soon discover that they are facing overwhelming odds. It seems that no matter how many Comancheros they killed, there are always more. On their way to save the girls from a fate worse than death, they face renegade Indians, cattle thieves, and more Comancheros than they want to confront.

Chip is purchasing supplies at Bent’s Stockade when he comes upon buffalo hunters who are holding a Cheyenne girl. He rescues the girl and heads out to return her to the Cheyenne village with the buffalo hunters hot on his heels. Ma Wheeler learns of an assassin and contacts him with an offer to go to Colorado and get the revenge she craves for the Davises’ killing her sons and nephews. Samuel T. Brummett has the same skills with rifle and pistols as the Davises. His arrival in Bent County sets up a test of wills, and the outcome of the possible conflict is in question.

Jeb and Jesus take a group of horses to Fort Lyon to sell, and are attacked by Apache. Ute Indians attack the Samuel Brummett spread. An Army detail is sent from Fort Garland to capture or kill the Utes that escaped from the White River Reservation.

After working on the Oliver Rogers ranch, Bas and Fletch Stevens decide to go out on their own. They are faced with the daunting challenge of building a ranching operation on the Arkansas River in Colorado. Among their challenges are the Indians who consider the area their home, the hostile weather, cattle rustlers, homesteaders who encroach on the public land, and the ever-changing price of beef.