Land_of_death

John Morgan, his wife, son and two daughters made their way slowly, by wagon train, toward the Golden West. Ten miles in advance of them, Will Briscom fought a band of marauding, lawless cowpunchers. The wagon train caught up with Will and they gave him water and food. He joined them. A few miles further on the marauders met the wagon train. A terrible battle followed. On they fought for hours until the sands of the prairie were stained with the blood of father, mother, brother and sister. Only Briscom and pretty Anna remained on the one side, while all but the leader died on the other. Ammunition gone, they closed, Briscom and that hauler, and the latter pinned Briscom to the ground ready to slay him. Then Anna, with a knife, taken from her dead father's body, pressed it between the murderer's shoulder blades. Then Briscom and Anna faced a future in that Land of Death.