Arvel Walsh can tame mules, but can he tame the wild Arizona frontier, and the Mexican girl known as Chica, a young woman as unpredictable as the land she roams? Arizona in 1892 is the last of the wild country in America. Laws are hard to enforce and bad hombres know it. Texas pushed them out of their land with the famous Texas Rangers, can Arizona do the same? Challenged by savage bandits, psychotic serial killers, and anarchists, Arvel Walsh and Dick Welles will have to summon all their knowledge, and all their guts as veterans of the Civil War to make the fledgling Arizona Rangers a force...

Prequel to The Mule Tamer trilogy, Maria's Trail chronicles the first adventures of Senora Arvel Walsh. Chica, Artemis, the beautiful devil, she is the great tragic hero of The Mule Tamer saga. Follow this remarkable woman as she journeys through the first adventures of her life, suffering hardship and pain, loss and danger, betrayal and first love. Her exploits are legendary and it soon becomes evident why everyone who comes under her spell can only love her. Maria's Trail is a long and tumultuous one, essential to make the glorious Maria the remarkable creature that we've come to know and...