Thunder of Eagles

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Jefferson Tyree lay on top of a flat rock, looking back along the trail over which they had just come. He saw the single rider unerringly following them.

“Is he still there?” Luke Bacca asked.

“Yeah, he’s still there,” Tyree answered. Tyree was a short man, lean as rawhide, with a thin face and a hawklike nose.

Jefferson Tyree and Luke and John Bacca were on the run. Just over a week earlier, they had raided a ranch just outside MacCallister, Colorado. Waiting outside the house until sunup, they surprised the Poindexters at breakfast, killing Sam Poindexter and his sixteen-year-old-son, Mort. They also raped, then killed Poindexter’s wife, Edna.

They took particular pleasure in raping Poindexter’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Cindy, leaving her alive, though not through any act of compassion. They stabbed her, then rode off, leaving her lying in a pool of her own blood, thinking that she was dead.

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