Originally published: Five Star Western, 1995.

This version is expanded from the modified version published in the 1950s.

"Thorndike large print western series"--T.p. verso.

"The text of this large print edition is unabridged. Other aspects of the book may vary from the original edition."-- T.p. verso.

"Published in 1996 in the U.S. by arrangement with Golden West Literary Agency."--T.p. verso.

"In the sooty blackness of a Tucson alley, Rim Fannin got word that about twenty heavily guarded freight wagons were traveling by night toward Tubac. Rim took a job as a mule skinner for White Mountain Freight in hopes of proving that the owner, John Romaine, was the traitor responsible for his father's death. He wasn't very good with a mule whip, but he managed until his train was attacked by Indians. Captured, he was taken to Canyon de Chelly where escape was hopeless. And late one night when the Bead Clan held a fire dance in the shadow of Spider Rock, Rim discovered why he had been taken alive..."--Cover.