Concho Author:Pat Williams Dee Ann Stockton was a typical ranch girl in Colorado in the 1880's. She was anticipating a pleasant future which included marriage, a family and a long life on a ranch in the area. All this changed in one night of terror. Rustlers raided the ranch, killing the Stockton's parents and several ranch hands who were also friends. Dee Ann, ... more »although wounded was determined to go after the rustlers. She convinced Chet Howard, the man she hoped to marry, to accompany her on an odyssey to capture or kill the raiders. With the aid of Doc Hough, a family friend, and unknown to them a reformed outlaw, Dee perfected the disguise of Kid Concho, gunman and outlaw. "The Kid" and Chet have an amazing adventure of danger and hardship while they train and infiltrate the outlaw gang. Not only is there conflict with the outlaws, Dee fights a constant battle with herself about what she is doing and Concho is the story of a young woman, who with the help of two friends and her brother engage in the dangerous and grueling task of finding and capturing or killing the outlaw gang which killed her parents in western Colorado in the early 1880's. The story follows the development of Dee Ann Stockton from a typicval ranch girl into a dangerous, hard eyed gunfighter and finally to the serious questions concerning her future --security and peace or independence and adventure.« less