Hugh Falconer was riding west to Taos in the wake of the lightning war that had wrested New Mexico from old Mexico. He was heading for a rendezvous of old friends at Turley's Mill, the wilderness outpost built by legendary mountaineer Simon Turley. On the way, Falconer picked up a job shepherding Delgado McKinn, a young buck with more courage than common sense, back to his wealthy father.
Falconer did not know it, but he was heading into a twister of terror set to turn into a deadly trap. Mexicans and Indians had united against the new American lords of the land. Turley's Mill was slated to become a tomb for the mountain men gathered there -- but Falconer would face his ultimate test as a mountain man only to come out alive and make the murderers pay for all the blood they shed with every drop of their own...
1996 by Jason Manning Signet Books (New York) 352 pp ISBN: 0-451-18648-5
This was the third and final novel in the Falconer Trilogy, and essentially is ripped from the headlines -- of 1847. The focus is on the epic fight that took place at Turley's Mill in Arroyo Hondo, where eight to ten mountain men battled about five hundred Mexicans and their Pueblo allies, as well as the events surrounding it, known as the Taos Revolt. I think the book turned out well, and the cover featured outstanding art.