The Killing Trail: A Killstraight Story

After visiting his late mother's people on the Mescalero reservation, Comanche tribal policeman<br><br>Daniel Killstraight waits to catch a train home when local cowboys bring disturbing news: an Apache<br><br>has brutally murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and locals want to lynch him.<br><br>Killstraight has no jurisdiction in this territory and he doesn't care much for Apaches. He knows<br><br>nothing about Deming, the murdered girl, or the accused killer, but he is in no hurry to return home.<br><br>So he heads for Deming to help a fellow Indian. Once he arrives, Killstraight learns that the accused,<br><br>Francis Groves, is a brooding, embittered, binge-drinking white man who once lived with the<br><br>Chiricahuas and was known as &quot;Walking Man.&quot; Killstraight sets out to prove Groves innocent -- in a<br><br>town that hates Indians . . . where he has few allies and many new enemies . . . and with this thought<br><br>in the back of his mind: What if Groves is really guilty?