After the smallpox plague killed off half the inhabitants of the small town Ragged Ridge Creek, Texas the young Creek boy was orphaned. His father, Maxwell Creek provided him with his namesake of the town, Ridge. At thirteen taken on to work in the general store of a retired western gunfighter and lawman, Ridge Creek learned the tricks of his future trade. At sixteen he rides off on the trail to Austin to join the Texas Rangers. The rest is history. The whole story of Captain Ridge Creek. The year was 1848, and the young Ranger was posted in Laredo, Texas. This is the story of his battles with Iron Jacket and Lopez the Outlaw among other tales of this man the Comanche call 'With Dead Eyes'. Captain Creek’s first five years in the Texas Rangers. This is the dawn of his younger years.

"Hang-em high boys. Make sure there is a six-foot drop so the outlaw dies clean from a snap of the neck," said old Judge Roy Bean, the old man they called the Hanging Judge. Captain Ridge Creek of the Texas Rangers stood by as the hangman focused on the task at hand. The outlaw that Ridge brought to justice on the trail to Laredo for his appointment at dawn with the noose and his creator. As eighteen sixty approached the lawlessness on the Texan border with Mexico was still rampant. Violent raids from banditos, outlaws, Comanche and Mexican gun hands hired by south of the border ranchers. It was an onerous task and the responsibility of the small band of Texas Rangers. Especially the Ranger the Comanche called 'With Dead Eyes'. The man who instilled fear in the outlaws and Plains Indians alike. This western is of Ridge Creek’s younger years.

From Eagles pass with a knife fight to the death of two half Cherokee mountain men. To brief encounters with Lopez the Outlaw and his torturous ways. Ranger Creek of the Laredo Texas Rangers encounters the challenge of his lifetime in the face of staggering odds against Kiowa Warrior Braves on the trail to hell along the River Rio Grande. On to confront the well-known Texan Gunslinger King Fisher and his gang. Finally chasing the woman outlaw and stagecoach robber Bella Star, west across the Texan Badlands. Ash Lingam has created a true old-style Western Lawman in the manner of such greats as Sergio Leone, Charles Portis, and Larry McMurtry with a taste of Quentin Tarantino. A true Western Adventure. (Sundog Series Vol. 4)

Texas Ranger Captain Creek leaves Mountain Man Seth Kinman and heads for Tombstone, Arizona, with Wild Bill Hickok to save a damsel in distress. The stealing of women and children is rampant by the Apache in the Arizona Territories. A complete lack of law west of El Paso leaves Creek, Hickok, and his Rangers to sort out the mystery of who kidnapped Marta Enriquez. After the hanging of Scorpion Jack, Captain Creek and his Rangers are now on the chase of gunmen from the early stages of the range wars in southeastern New Mexico. Gunslingers, hostiles, romance, humor, hangings, and a good dose of lead, making legends of these Texans and Captain Creek as they come to life in his tales of adventure in the Old West.

Captain Creek and his Texas Rangers stop the ranch baron Seth Bogardus from killing off the local cow-hands in the El Paso area. Only to find that his father, Lord Bogardus, is on his way from Scotland to make amends for his son's lack of success in taking over every ranch with water rights from El Paso to the border with New Mexico, sailing in his personal ship from Glasgow to Galveston. Finally, on to cross Texas with a wagon unseen on the San Antonio trail. Hurricanes, shoot-outs, Comanche War Parties, and captured hostages are part of this ninth book of the Sundog Series. An Old West Tale of gunslingers and outlaws.

Señor Pedro Mendez is one of Texas' biggest cattle rustlers. A man with a foot in each country stole Texan cattle and sold them back to the men he rustled them from. As Captain Ridge Creek's attention is turned from the Bogardus clan toward the Mendez outlaw gang, a personal conflict forms between the two men. Meanwhile, Ridge Creek is smitten by one Lola Zapata and considers a new life away from the violence. And Sergeant Bill Vents ponders his age and all his years as a Texas Ranger. Last but not least Captain Creek has sent the word to the Outlaw Lopez that he is on the hunt to kill him. An action-packed final installment of the Sundog Series will keep you entertained from cover to cover.