On October 18, 1979, twenty-three-year-old Marilyn Haberbush is murdered. Marilyn has been shot two times in the head, and is found lying on the sofa in her modest home two and a half miles east of Franklin, Texas. Twenty-six-year-old John Haberbush, Marilyn's husband, discovers the body. John has enjoyed an evening of roping at the rodeo arena a few miles south of Franklin, but John and his eighteen-month-old daughter Peggy return home at ten o’clock p.m. and fi nd Marilyn dead. John is devastated at the loss of his wife and the baby she had carried, as Marilyn was seven months pregnant. District Attorney Perez feels he has a case against John Haberbush. The D.A. presents evidence to the Donley County Grand Jury, and the Grand Jury indicts John Haberbush for the murder of his wife, Marilyn. The case that the D.A. has against John is shaky, and later the indictment is dropped. In January 1981, the Donley County Grand Jury reindicts John Haberbush. This time the indictment sticks and John goes to trial. The trial is held in San Miguel, the county seat of Donley County. The trial lasts eight days, and, despite the fact that there is no evidence connecting John to the murder, he is convicted. John is sentenced to ninety-nine years in the state penitentiary at Huntsville, Texas.
When Martin McKenzie is killed in July of 1876, leaving seventeen-year-old Jeff McKenzie without a family, Jeff decides to become a Texas Ranger, just like his father had been. But he has no idea how this will change his life. While Jeff travels, the reader will find old-fashioned gunfights; the history of mining in Colorado; outdoor adventure as Jeff McKenzie travels to west Texas, Arizona, and Colorado as a Texas Ranger and United States Marshal; crime; suspense; romance; and surprise. Jeff McKenzie will meet many fictional characters like Sid Johnson, who will add humor to this book, and a romantic interest, Jeff's wife Carmen. While Jeff is traveling, he will also meet people like Bob Ford, Calamity Jane, Soapy Smith, Nicholas Creede, and Bat Masterson, and he will ride into Mexico after outlaws with Tom Horn. President Grover Cleveland gives Texas Ranger Jeff McKenzie a special commission as United States Marshal in March of 1886. Marshal McKenzie is given the job of catching and bringing in the Booth Carlisle gang, which is wanted for kidnapping and slave running. Marshal McKenzie joins forces with Tom Horn on the banks of the Rio Grande and they trail Carlisle across the Chihuahua desert with the help of a half-breed named Pete. McKenzie and Tom Horn meet Booth Carlisle and his gang in a deadly gunfight in the streets of Aquiles Serdán. McKenzie is a trilogy covering ten years, from 1876 to 1886. Explanatory notes are provided.
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