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TONKAWA #8 - COURAGE & REDEMPTION. WHEN THE APACHE, U.S. ARMY, TONKAWA, AND THE SINNER KILLER COLLIDE, AN EARTH-SHATTERING EVENT OCCURS! When the Texas Rangers suggest Tuc and Potak come out of retirement and do one last service for the U.S. Army, they cautiously agree. They are never too old to go on a mission of honor and mercy. The military wants to locate and rescue white women and children, captured by Comanche and Apache so they might be returned to their homes and families, saving their honor. They agree undeterred. They set out for an Apache camp, where enslaved whites and Mexicans are suspected to live. James Boot, alias the Sinner Killer, waits for his two Tonkawa friends in Eagles Pass, Texas. Potak is engaged in another spiritual journey, while Tuc leads a forbidden powwow, called the Tonkawa Wolf Dance. Gray Wolf, an old medicine man, warns Boot that Tuc is in trouble and in need of his help. Major John. L. Bully, a recent West Point grad, requests a transfer to the frontier, where the Indian Wars continue into their fourth decade. Finally, his dream comes true, and he gets permission to seek out what he considers savage dogs. He is allowed to pick twenty men to accompany him at his request. The major is also attached an experienced grizzly Indian fighter, Sergeant Rex Hanger. He has twenty years of experience fighting Sioux, Comanche, and Apache. He is as hard as nails, knows the lay of the land, and eats bullets for breakfast. An Apache tribe of considerable size hides deep in the desert, attempting to avoid the dangerous violence that floods Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. They only seek a peaceful life away from white people, which is difficult in current times. The massive civilization machine is marching unstoppably toward the last of the Indian holdouts. As the entities merge to a single point, the heavens divide, spirits play games on the participants, and the unexpected occurs. With the Indian ways, white man's rules don't