"Bring Me His Ears"

A brisk Western adventure follows a resourceful young frontiersman whose departure from a Missouri river town sets competing parties hunting him: a Missourian tracker, a nervous Mexican agent acting for a Santa Fe authority, and other opportunists converging across steamboats, gunshops, and prairie trails. The narrative moves between action-filled episodes—river landings, crowded saloons, and the well-known Hawken gun store—and quieter sequences of pursuit, surveillance, and uneasy alliances. Recurring concerns are survival on the frontier, clashes of arms and culture, and the moral ambiguity of men driven by vengeance, profit, or the chance to escape into the open West.