title: Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 3
author:  Robert K. DeArment 
description: <DIV><P><B>Robert K. DeArment</B> is a University of Toledo, Ohio, graduate whose field of interest is nineteenth-century American history with special emphasis on outlaws and law enforcement in the frontier West. He is the author of <I>Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend</I>, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.</P></DIV>
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  1
  
   **5 • RETURN TO MASSACRE MESA**
  
  by
  
  George G. Gilman
  
  Terry Harknett
  
  Spring Acre
  
  Springhead Road
  
  Uplyme
  
  Lyme Regis
  
  Dorset DT7 3RS
  
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   **An EDGE Western -- • -- 93,000 Words**
  
  2
  
  For
  
  KEN BULMER, RICHARD CLIFTON DEY,
  
  JOHN HARVEY, LAURENCE JAMES and ANGUS WELLS
  
  A tragically diminishing band
  
  of one-time young guns who formed
  
  the Bunghole Bunch
  
  3
  
   **CHAPTER • 1**
  
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   **THE SCENE of the massacre was in the south west of the Territory of New**
  Mexico, close to the border with old Mexico. And the time: one blisteringly
  hot mid-August day in the year of 1866.
  
  At something after eleven thirty that morning five grim faced unarmed cavalry
  officers rode within sight of a small cluster of drab coloured wickiups that
  comprised the encampment of Burning Fire the Comanche sub-chief they were
  scheduled to me