"Describes the violent history between the frontiersmen and the Native Americans in the Southwestern borderlands by following Mickey Free, a mixed-blood warrior who played a pivotal role in the fighting as he pursued the Apache Kid."--NoveList.

Now at last this forgotten tale of supernatural terror returns to chill the blood of Matheson's many fans. Southwest Arizona, a century ago. An uneasy true exists between the remote frontier community of Picture City and the neighboring Apaches. That delicate peace is shredded when the bodies of two white men are found hideously mutilated. The angry townspeople are certain the "savages" have broken the treaty, but Billjohn Finley, the local Indian...

An alternate-history novel in which the Apaches are not defeated by the U.S., but retain their independence, their country becoming known as Apacheria. The novel describes how during the Prohibition they, not Al Capone, ran Chicago.

Sixteen years old in 1886, Runs With Horses trains to become a warrior with Geronimo's band of Apaches in the American Southwest.