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Sundance 6: The Bronco Trail
Sundance 5: Taps at Little Big Horn
Sundance 1: Overkill
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A Jim Sundance Western Series

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Riding through Nevada, Jim Sundance came across one of the biggest gold strikes the Territory had ever known. A lucky break, the gunman thought ... until he went to nearby Orono to stake the claim. Millionaire miner Jackson Selby, who ruled the mining town with an iron fist, got wind of the half-breed’s strike and wanted in on the action. But Sundance wouldn’t sell, even though he knew the consequences. So Sundance and a band of die-hard prospectors and drifters dug in at the mine and prepared to face Selby’s marauders. Death would determine the ownership of this gold mine!

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPiccadilly
Release dateMay 2, 2013
Sundance 6: The Bronco Trail
Sundance 5: Taps at Little Big Horn
Sundance 1: Overkill

Titles in the series (32)

  • Sundance 1: Overkill

    Sundance 1: Overkill
    Sundance 1: Overkill

    They called him Sundance. A big man with the bronzed face of a Cheyenne and a mane of yellow hair. He had ranged from Canada to Mexico, from the Mississippi to the Shining Mountains and west to the Pacific. He could take any man apart with rifle, pistol, knife—or Indian-style with bow, arrows, lance and tomahawk. He was a professional fighting man and no job was too tough if the price was right. So when a rich banker met his price of $10,000 to rescue his daughter from the Cheyenne—Sundance bought it. He didn’t know that before it was over he would have to take on a gang of vicious renegades, part of Custer’s Seventh Cavalry and a hot-blooded eastern woman.

  • Sundance 6: The Bronco Trail

    Sundance 6: The Bronco Trail
    Sundance 6: The Bronco Trail

    They were called the Tucson Ring, and they were a group of greedy businessmen who were getting fat on keeping the Indian Wars alive in Arizona Territory. One of their plans was to keep Geronimo on the loose by supplying him with whiskey and ammunition. But General George Crook had a plan to stop them, and Jim Sundance was the most important part of it. His orders – to go to Arizona, find out who was selling whiskey and guns to Geronimo, stop them any way possible ... and bring Geronimo in for good.” It was a tall order. But if anyone could bring it off, it was the man they called Sundance.

  • Sundance 5: Taps at Little Big Horn

    Sundance 5: Taps at Little Big Horn
    Sundance 5: Taps at Little Big Horn

    It was the fall of 1875 and all the Plains tribes were at peace. The best Cheyenne hunting grounds were under Army control. But then General Custer found gold in the Black Hills and set out to stir up a war to save his prestige. Sundance got involved when Custer locked him into a filthy prison for four months, and when he got out, his hatred for Custer was like a burning flame. Sundance was all Cheyenne when the Indians faced Custer – he vowed to have his revenge, and if he did, Custer would never leave Little Big Horn alive.

  • Sundance 4: Death in the Lava

    Sundance 4: Death in the Lava
    Sundance 4: Death in the Lava

    The land echoed with the thundering hoofs of Modoc ponies. In minutes they swooped down and captured the wagon train and its cargo of gold. But an Indian could not spend stolen gold in the days when Captain Jack ruled the Modoc tribe. So they buried it deep in a cave in the lava beds at Tule Lake." Jim Sundance, half-white, half-Cheyenne gunslinger found himself hip-deep in the big strike that had hit the Dakota Territory. A money-hungry head of a band of buffalo hunters swore he would grab the lion's share of the loot. Before Sundance faced him in a showdown, he would tangle with the conceited General George A. Custer, a kill-crazy Sioux medicine man and Lucille, the beautiful, hot-blooded boss of the Hills' wildest saloon. A fast-paced action Western that will leave you panting for breath by the end.

  • Sundance 2: Dead Man's Canyon

    Sundance 2: Dead Man's Canyon
    Sundance 2: Dead Man's Canyon

    Sundance, the professional fighting man of the plains and the Baron from the Austrian Court made a deal. For $35,000 the big man with the bronzed face and the yellow hair would take the nobleman into deadly Apache territory to search for Emperor Maximilian of Mexico’s priceless treasure of lost jewels. Before it was over, Sundance would meet Cochise, chief of the Chiricauhuas, and together with a luscious young woman, face his closest crapshoot with death. And a score of men’s bones would bleach on the floor of Dead Man’s Canyon.

  • Sundance 3: Dakota Territory

    Sundance 3: Dakota Territory
    Sundance 3: Dakota Territory

    Jim Sundance, half-white, half-Cheyenne gunslinger found himself hip-deep in the big strike that had hit the Dakota Territory. A money-hungry head of a band of buffalo hunters swore he would grab the lion’s share of the loot. Before Sundance faced him in a showdown, he would tangle with the conceited General George A. Custer, a kill-crazy Sioux medicine man and Lucille, the beautiful, hot-blooded boss of the Hills’ wildest saloon.

  • Sundance 7: The Wild Stallions

    Sundance 7: The Wild Stallions
    Sundance 7: The Wild Stallions

    The Appaloosa horses bred by Chief Joseph’s Nez Perce Indians were the finest anywhere. That’s why the Army wanted to get its hands on the herd—so it could breed up top-quality remounts and ride the Indians down even easier. To do it, they hired a sadistic horse-trader named Luke Drury. There was just one problem. Jim Sundance had no intention of letting Drury or the Army get their hands on the Appaloosas. Instead he planned to sell them to an English aristocrat and have them taken out of the country. But Drury played rough ... up to and including cold-blooded murder. So now it became a race against time. Hunted every step of the way, Sundance, and the beautiful Lady Bucknell, had to get the horses to the relative safety of Mormon country, and then get them shipped out to England. But they were going to fight on their hands ... one that could only end in wholesale slaughter ...

  • Sundance 14: Riding Shotgun

    Sundance 14: Riding Shotgun
    Sundance 14: Riding Shotgun

    Jim Sundance rode right into the middle of the bloodiest feud in Arizona. Coffin City was split between gunfighter Tulso Dart and the murderous Cable clan. The Cables were backed by the crooked sheriff—Tulso Dart by a dying killer named Doc Ramsey. Sundance had his reasons for being there, but before it was over a lot of men would die in the dust.

  • Sundance 13: Blood on the Prairie

    Sundance 13: Blood on the Prairie
    Sundance 13: Blood on the Prairie

    Half English, half-Cheyenne Indian, Sundance was a half-breed who took on jobs no one else would handle, a killer who never missed. And he charged plenty for his services. But when his old friend George Crook asked Sundance to step into the most explosive situation of his career, as a personal favor, Sundance agreed. He was the only man alive who could keep the Sioux nation from going on the warpath—and Russia from going to war with America. Sundance was the best ... but just maybe this time out the job was too much even for him!

  • Sundance 8: Bring Me His Scalp

    Sundance 8: Bring Me His Scalp
    Sundance 8: Bring Me His Scalp

    Someone wanted Sundance dead, and they wanted it bad enough to pay eight hard cases to trail him into the hell-hot Texas desert and risk their lives for one yellow scalp. There was only one way for Sundance to save himself—and that was kill them all ... and that’s what he did. But plenty more bodies would litter Sundance’s trail before he could discover the identities of the men behind the mysterious ‘S & S Concern’. Then there came a final reckoning, with the fate of the entire Indian Nation depending on the outcome!

  • Sundance 11: War Party

    Sundance 11: War Party
    Sundance 11: War Party

    Marauding Comanches had kidnapped beautiful Virginia Stevens. Her uncle would pay anything to get her back, and he knew Sundance was the only man who could bring it off. Not only did Sundance have the Comanches to contend with—he also had to beat the Comancheros to the girl. Sundance dyed his blond hair dark brown and made peace with his half-brothers before taking Virginia from them. She fought rescue for a while, but one night with Sundance in the warmth of his blanket softened her resistance.

  • Sundance 10: The Ghost Dancers

    Sundance 10: The Ghost Dancers
    Sundance 10: The Ghost Dancers

    Sundance was called in to try to stop a crazed white-hating Indian from turning the entire western frontier into a bloody no-man’s land. The fanatic Indian had organized the Ghost Dancers, a nation of Indians gathered from every tribe from Canada to the Mexican border. Driven by the belief that no bullets could harm them as long as they were under the protection of the Great Spirit, they set out to massacre every white man on the plains. It was Sundance’s job to do the impossible and bring peace before it was too late for everyone.

  • Sundance 16: Gunbelt

    Sundance 16: Gunbelt
    Sundance 16: Gunbelt

    A range war was brewing, and even though Sundance wanted no part of it, fate dealt him in anyway. But right from the start, the odds were stacked against him. To begin with, there was the vicious land baron Lem Barkalow and his hired killer, Beecher Strawn. Then there was Col Garvey and his wild bunch—Ear-cutter Jack, who had killed at least thirty men and taken an ear from each victim, dried it, and strung it on a necklace he wore draped around his neck; Weasel—tall, unbelievably slim, almost chinless, his eyes a strange red-glinting hue and as blood-thirsty as his namesake; Chico Lopez, the artist with the knife; Garth, the powder-man, who could take a can of Hercules, or this new-fangled dynamite, and open any safe anybody had ever built. But Sundance didn’t care about the odds. He was going to play the game right down to the last, bloody hand.

  • Sundance 20: Los Olvidados

    Sundance 20: Los Olvidados
    Sundance 20: Los Olvidados

    Down in Old Mexico for a hunting expedition, Jim Sundance ran into an old friend, down-and-out lawyer Jorge Calderon, who was engaged in a lonely battle to save a poor Indian tribe from slavery - the "forgotten ones" - Los Olvidados. The half-breed gunfighter joined the fight against a bloodthirsty Mexican army colonel and ruthless landowner Lucas Bannerman, the mind behind the slave ring. Sundance knew how desperate and dangerous it was to try to fight the enemies of his people.

  • Sundance 15: Silent Enemy

    Sundance 15: Silent Enemy
    Sundance 15: Silent Enemy

    Both the Indians and the U.S. Cavalry were being victimized. A lone crazed Cheyenne was on a personal warpath against both sides and neither brigades of bluecoats nor tribes of braves could end his reign of terror. They needed to pit one man against one crazed Indian. That man was Sundance.

  • Sundance 12: Run for Cover

    Sundance 12: Run for Cover
    Sundance 12: Run for Cover

    The town of Bootstrap, Nevada, was being terrorized by a killer they called the Big Fifty Sniper. Folks had a hunch it had something to do with the Lost Pistol silver mine, but no one knew for sure. Then Jim Sundance, the half-breed professional gunman, rode into town. He was just in time to save young Billy Mercer from a hangman’s knot. Furthermore, he was also willing to chase the sniper down ... for a price. There was no job too touch for Sundance, if the price was right.

  • Sundance 21: The Marauders

    Sundance 21: The Marauders
    Sundance 21: The Marauders

    Jim Sundance was no lawman, but when his friend John Tree was gunned down by the notorious Ryker gang, he found the swiftest course of revenge was to take the job of sheriff of Cimarron City. The last two sheriffs had been brutally murdered by the bloodthirsty gang, and now Ryker and his boys aimed to take over the town. The terrified towns-people were forced to side with the outlaws but Sundance would rather face the savage killers alone than turn his back on them.

  • Sundance 9: The Pistoleros

    Sundance 9: The Pistoleros
    Sundance 9: The Pistoleros

    The Indian Ring—sticky-fingered Washington politicians and their local bully boys—were looting millions of dollars that should have gone to the reservations, to buy food, blankets, supplies. They knew Sundance was gunning for them, so they tried to make him run. That was about the worst mistake they could make, because the big, silent man with the yellow hair and the Cheyenne face runs from no man. A natural killer with six-gun, rifle, bow, knife, tomahawk, Sundance works for money but for him troubleshooting is more than a profession. It’s a way of life.

  • Sundance 28: Blood Knife (A Jim Sundance Western)

    Sundance 28: Blood Knife (A Jim Sundance Western)
    Sundance 28: Blood Knife (A Jim Sundance Western)

    Burke Hunter, one of the deadliest knife fighters in the West, had disappeared. Sundance was hired to look for him, and got as far as an Apache Indian camp where Hunter had been taken prisoner, suspected of stealing a sacred cache of Apache gold. But when Hunter double-crossed him and the Apaches tried to capture him, Sundance knew that there was going to be death on the desert, either by a bullet or a blade. He also knew that Hunter’s beautiful wife Eloise would welcome the survivor, whichever man it proved to be!

  • Sundance 17: Man Hunt

    Sundance 17: Man Hunt
    Sundance 17: Man Hunt

    Sundance was riding north from Arizona to Seattle at the request of an old friend. Several trappers had been murdered while setting out their winter lines. There were no clues except for an old piece of wood found near each body with one word, Carcajou, burnt into it. No sooner had Sundance set foot in town than he found himself in a tangle with a couple of gunmen aiming to see that he didn’t stick around long. But Sundance wasn’t the kind to get caught in a trap. Just before the two men died, one managed to utter a single word: Carcajou!

  • Sundance 18: The Nightriders

    Sundance 18: The Nightriders
    Sundance 18: The Nightriders

    Jim Sundance could be a deadly enemy, but he was also a lifelong friend. Simon Tolliver found this out when the halfbreed showed up to help him save his ranch from land-grabber Greeley Nash. Nash had an outlaw army at his disposal, led by an ex-cavalry officer whose hatred of Sundance knew no bounds. Sundance loved a good fight, and this looked like it would be one of the best!

  • Sundance 24: Buffalo War

    Sundance 24: Buffalo War
    Sundance 24: Buffalo War

    Josiah Moore’s ruthless and well-armed hunting expedition had invaded the Staked Plains to kill off the last of the buffalo herds. But their presence on Indian land threatened to cause an all-out war. Desperate, General Crook called in Sundance and told him the only way to avoid a massacre was to drive Moore and his men off the Plains ... something easier said than done!

  • Sundance 19: The Day of the Halfbreeds

    Sundance 19: The Day of the Halfbreeds
    Sundance 19: The Day of the Halfbreeds

    Trouble was brewing in Canada among the halfbreeds and full-blooded Indians. Led by a fanatic, they were forming a renegade army whose purpose was to destroy whites on both sides of the border. Jim Sundance was the logical choice to infiltrate the band of rebels in order to prevent an insurrection that could only lead to widespread bloodshed. For the first time in his life, he was faced with the necessity of betraying his own people. Even with all he knew to be at stake, Sundance wasn't sure he could do it!

  • Sundance 23: Apache War

    Sundance 23: Apache War
    Sundance 23: Apache War

    General George Crook, Jim Sundance’s old friend, dispatched the half-breed gunman on a peace mission to Fort McHenry, Arizona, where an arrogant young army major was itching for war—and for a promotion. The major’s ‘enemy’, the Apache people, had been living in peace after years of bitter fighting. By the time Sundance arrived, the killing had already begun. The soldiers were out for blood and the Apaches were willing to fight to the death. Only Sundance could prevent an all-out war in the desert ... if the Army would let him!

  • Sundance 26: Choctow County War

    Sundance 26: Choctow County War
    Sundance 26: Choctow County War

    Sundance was on his way to pay respects to an old friend when he spotted a boy running across the prairie. He had escaped from kidnappers and Sundance helped the lad return home. But what the boy called home didn’t sit too well with Sundance. The boy’s father was Owen Mahaffey, a tyrannical oil baron who controlled the city of Tamarack, a town where greed ran rampant and violence struck like wildfire. When the halfbreed got wind of what was going on there, nothing could stop the rage seething within him.

  • Sundance 22: Scorpion

    Sundance 22: Scorpion
    Sundance 22: Scorpion

    Sundance knew he wasn’t traveling in good company. But Burt McGill had more to offer than a beautiful wife and a nasty disposition—he had five hundred spanking new Winchesters. And nobody needed them more than Sundance’s old compatriot Paco Acosta—the only honest man in Mexico. Too late, Sundance realized that McGill was in cahoots with the man they called The Scorpion, a killer who aimed to be crowned Emperor of Mexico. To pull it off, The Scorpion needed those Winchesters in his hands and a dead Sundance!

  • Sundance 25: The Hunters

    Sundance 25: The Hunters
    Sundance 25: The Hunters

    Big game hunter Edward Manning has come all the way from England to hire Sundance as a guide on a hunt for wild grizzlies. But Manning soon tired of stalking his four-legged prey, and set his sights on the one thing he had never hunted before—a fellow human being, Sundance himself! For the first time in his life, Sundance was the hunted, rather than the hunter, pitting his strength, wits and cunning against a cold and ruthless killer whose skill equalled his own!

  • Sundance 27: Texas Empire

    Sundance 27: Texas Empire
    Sundance 27: Texas Empire

    Sundance was riding in the wildest corner of West Texas when he heard tell of a ruthless land baron called Hollis Bannister. As owner of the biggest ranch in the western half of the state, Bannister didn’t quite take to the idea of new settlers moving in on his share. Bannister figured things would run smoother if he got rid of the governor and ran the territory his own way. As part of his plan to make himself dictator of the state of West Texas, Bannister hired a slew of gunslinging hard-cases and ex-soldiers to run out anyone opposed to him. That was when Sundance came in as one of Bannister’s hired guns, he’d have a good chance of uncovering the whole operation – if he didn’t get himself killed first.

  • Sundance 32: Gold Strike (A Jim Sundance Western)

    Sundance 32: Gold Strike (A Jim Sundance Western)
    Sundance 32: Gold Strike (A Jim Sundance Western)

    Riding through Nevada, Jim Sundance came across one of the biggest gold strikes the Territory had ever known. A lucky break, the gunman thought ... until he went to nearby Orono to stake the claim. Millionaire miner Jackson Selby, who ruled the mining town with an iron fist, got wind of the half-breed’s strike and wanted in on the action. But Sundance wouldn’t sell, even though he knew the consequences. So Sundance and a band of die-hard prospectors and drifters dug in at the mine and prepared to face Selby’s marauders. Death would determine the ownership of this gold mine!

  • Sundance 31: The Savage

    Sundance 31: The Savage
    Sundance 31: The Savage

    Arriving in California to join the fight against crooked politicians in the Indian Ring, Sundance learned of a plot to kill his old friend General Crook. But where was the threat coming from? That’s the mystery Jim Sundance has to solve in order to save Crook. The enraged half-breed swore that blood would be spilled—enough to make a desert bloom.

Author

John Benteen

John Benteen was the pseudonym for Benjamin Leopold Haas born in Charlotte , North Carolina in 1926. In his entry for CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, Ben told us he inherited his love of books from his German-born father, who would bid on hundreds of books at unclaimed freight auctions during the Depression. His imagination was also fired by the stories of the Civil War and Reconstruction told by his Grandmother, who had lived through both. “My father was a pioneer operator of motion picture theatres”, Ben wrote. “So I had free access to every theatre in Charlotte and saw countless films growing up, hooked on the lore of our own South and the Old West.” A family friend, a black man named Ike who lived in a cabin in the woods, took him hunting and taught him to love and respect the guns that were the tools of that trade. All of these influences – seeing the world like a story from a good book or movie, heartfelt tales of the Civil War and the West, a love of weapons – register strongly in Ben’s own books. Dreaming about being a writer, 18-year-old Ben sold a story to a Western pulp magazine. He dropped out of college to support his family. He was self-educated. And then he was drafted, and sent to the Philippines. Ben served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1946. Returning home, Ben went to work, married a Southern belle named Douglas Thornton Taylor from Raleigh in 1950, lived in Charlotte and in Sumter in South Carolina , and then made Raleigh his home in 1959. Ben and his wife had three sons, Joel, Michael and John. Ben held various jobs until 1961, when he was working for a steel company. He had submitted a manuscript to Beacon Books, and an offer for more came just as he was laid off at the steel company. He became a full-time writer for the rest of his life. Ben wrote every day, every night. “I tried to write 5000 words or more everyday, scrupulous in maintaining authenticity”, Ben said. His son Joel later recalled, “My Mom learned to go to sleep to the sound of a typewriter”.

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