title: Guns Across the Rio: A Texas Ranger in Old Mexico
author:  Dac Crossley 
description: Texan by birth, now retired in Georgia. Former college professor (ecologist). First book published by BookSurge, second ready to go, several short stories, memoirs under construction
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  # A fightin’ waddy, a lost gold mine, an’ a gang o’ gun-slingin’ outlaws.
  
  
  
  
  
  # CHAPTER I.
  
  
  
  
  
  # ARIZONA BANDITS.
  
  
  
  
  
  BULLETS screamed from six angles upon the boulder pile behind which “Rio” Rand
  had taken refuge. The bronzed young cowboy lay flat on his stomach and punched
  cartridges into the smoking chambers of his twin Colt six-guns.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Plenty of ammunition,” grunted the Texan, rubbing the side of his jaw against
  a dusty shoulder to remove the sweat, “but when a man can’t even see his
  targets, a lot o’ good bullets will do ’im.”
  
  
  
  
  
  Rand shoved back the snow-white sombrero from his moist brow, and scanned the
  limited horizon of his rocky ambush, alert for a glimpse of sombrero or
  fluttering serape which would mark the movements of one of the six Mexican or
  gringo bandits who were seeking his life.
  
  
  
  
  
  Ten minutes before, the carefree young puncher had been riding through
  Arizona’s lonely Gunstock Mountains, headed for his native Texas. His voice
  had been lifted in a rang