Bannerman the Enforcer 19: Gauntlet

They came into Big Springs, Texas, from the north … but they might just as well have come straight out of the past. They were thirty men clad in buckskins, toting flintlocks and muzzle-loaders, and they wanted – and took – everything Big Springs had to offer.
That was their biggest mistake.
Governor Lester Dukes reckoned they were ‘The Lost Ones’, the last remnants of Quantrill’s Raiders, a bunch of Rebel hold-outs who’d refused to surrender after Appomattox. He figured they were holed up in ...