Most people call him Cuchillo, the Apache word for knife. That's short for Cuchillo Oro, the Golden Knife. The savage saga of a heroic Indian and his single-handed war against the invading white man! Inspired by such notorious Indian warriors as Cochise and Geronimo. Here is the shocking and cruel realism of the Indian wars - and some of the most exciting reading to come out of the West.

14: BORN TO DIE

PROPHECY ...
With his last dying breath, the ancient shaman Black Cave had warned Cuchillo Oro that the time to kill Cyrus Pinner would not come until the hate horse-solder had a wife — and a child.

Now, ever since the wedding, the Apache had been waiting ... and watching. Looking for the swelling of the belly of the woman, and smiling a strange secret smile when he finally saw it starting ...

The trail was leading back to its beginning. Like a snake that sought to devour itself, the head was nearing the trail. A few more days and the wagon train would reach the rebuilt Fort Davidson.

Cuchilllo had found out that Caroline Penner was intending to have her child there ... and there it could finally end. Where it had begun

Published January 01, 2025
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13: THE BEST MAN

For many moons Cuchillo Oro had tortured himself with memories of why he was sworn to kill Cyrus L Pinner.
The humiliation of his capture by the cruel horse-soldier...the horrible agony he'd endured when the Indian-hating officer cut off his index finger for "stealing" an ornate golden knife...the senseless slayings of his wife and baby — were grisly reminders of the white man's injustices to an innocent people, and, for the young brave, there was no turning back.

Resuming his hunt for revenge, Cuchillo recalls the words of the ancient medicine man, Black Cave, who has warned that the mighty Apache warrior will always be doomed to failure ... until the hated horse-soldier is married and the father of a son.

Then, once again, Cuchillo does cross the path of his avowed enemy – this time on the eve of the cavalry captain's wedding. With his fabled Golden Knife in hand, the avenging Apache awaits as Pinner pledges his troth ... unaware that the bonds of matrimony may also seal his fate.

Published November 01, 2024
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12: FOOL'S GOLD

The Doubleday brothers had left him, brutally beaten, to die in the desert. Somehow, Cuchillo survived, and swore to avenge the vicious attack. Andy was the first to feel the thrust of the Indian's fabled golden knife ... Stan was next ...

As he faced his avowed enemy, Cuchillo knew that his life trembled on the edge of a knife. Moving very slowly he put his right hand into the pocket of his trousers and pulled out the coins. With a wide sweep of the hand, the Apache warrior opened his fingers, revealing the golden glint of the money, the last rays of the sun making them sparkle and glitter in his hand.

Now the white man would pay for his mistake &msah; and the legendary Hernando's gold could claim its last victim. For Cuchillo Oro, this was sweet, savage revenge &madash; worth more than the treasure he had risked his life to find.

Published September 01, 2024
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11: THE CRUEL TRAIL

Far from his own hunting ground, Cuchillo Oro is roaming through Nevada when he sees a cavalry patrol taking up ambush position in a canyon. Undetected, he watches as a band of Shoshone braves rides unsuspectingly into the murderous crossfire.

Enraged by the senseless slayings, he prepares to attack—just as a saddle bum sneaks up and sticks a rifle in his back. Captured and turned over to the troopers, Cuchillo learns they are planning to desert in search of buried treasure rumored to be somewhere in the Sierra Madres. But first they must kill him.

Lying to save his skin, Cuchillo claims he knows the exact location and offers to lead them to the cache ... in exchange for his life. Greedily, they accept—only to learn that the great Apache warrior has cunningly outsmarted them ... by setting a savage trap across their path.

Published July 01, 2024
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10: ALL BLOOD IS RED

In the timber country of Oregon, an exhausted Cuchillo Oro stumbles across Faith Magruder, a mail-order bride about to be raped by her drunken husband. Thinking he is doing the right thing, Cuchillo intervenes but somehow the woman kills her husband and knocks out the weakened Apache. When Cuchillo comes to he knows that the word of a red man is worth nothing against that of a white man.

Cuchillo is blamed for the husband's murder, and very soon he is being hunted by an avowed Apache hater and his gang — armed and ruthless — want him dead. And the bloodbath, once it starts, will be relentless, for nothing can stop Cuchillo Oro — the Golden Knife — merciless and hell-bent on revenge!

Published May 01, 2024
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09: THE NAKED AND THE DEAD

Captain Cyrus Pinner, the white man who slaughtered Oro's family has been seen in San Francisco — so once again the Apache resumes his hunt for revenge. On the way, Oro joins up with a married couple who have strayed from their group. Although they dislike him, they allow him to travel with them for the Apache can save them. After several days on the trail the man turns against Oro. The wife is killed and Cuchillo takes the wagon and leaves the man behind.

In San Francisco Oro finds what he's looking for — but just as he is about to take Pinner by surprise someone recognizes him and a huge brawl breaks out. Oro kills a man with his famed golden knife — but it's not his intended victim; and the chase is on. But where can he go? The only escape the city is by sea — and Oro wouldn't go to sea to save his life ... or would he?

Published March 01, 2024
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08: BLOOD ON THE TRACKS

Cuchillo Oro is riding along the Gila River Trail when he comes to a railroad camp — the butchered bodies of the Chinese workers and their white enslavers cover the construction site. It is New Mexico Territory and this is the ghastly work of renegade Apaches, who don't want the railroad on their land.

Just moments after Cuchillo arrives, a cavalry patrol rides up and accuses him of leading the Indian attack. Out for revenge, the soldiers decide to tie him to a locomotive and drag the red skin they hate right off his body.

He survives, filled with rage for the white man who has taunted and abused his people for years. But now Cuchillo must also deal with John Colt, leader of the renegade Apaches — a warrior every inch as tough as Oro.

Can the Golden Knife hold out against both Apache and white savagery?

Published January 01, 2024
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07: BLOOD LINE

Cuchillo Oro saved Linda Daughton from a fate worse than death at the hands of a band of renegade Apaches.

When he was in danger himself, she returned the favor by shooting his attacker in the groin.

Now Frankie Ettinger was out for revenge.

But it would take more than a white man, even the rich and ruthless Ettinger, to spill the blood of Cuchillo Oro.

Published November 01, 2023
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06: SONORA SLAUGHTER

A single rifle shot blasts Cuchillo Oro's horse from beneath him. He takes cover and works his way to the place in the rocks where the shot came from. He finds Simeon Schuster, a badly injured American bounty hunter, and disarms him.

Schuster was working for the Mexican Government and was shot by the bandits he was hunting. He had mistaken Cuchillo for a renegade Apache who rides with the bandits. Cuchillo hates all bounty hunters and doesn't care one way or the other if he lives or dies. When a group of bandits, attracted by the shot, come toward them across the baking sands, it looks like certain death for both of them. As a ruse, to save his own life, and impress the bandits of his good intentions, Cuchillo kills Schuster!

But Cuchillo soon finds himself sentenced to death by a military firing squad.

Will his fabled golden knife be enough?

Published October 01, 2023
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05: FORT TREACHERY

Cuchillo had been told when he was little more than a boy and overanxious to achieve warrior status: This is Apache land, but the white men have claimed it and they will hold it by force. They feel guilty for having stolen what they hold, and they will hate and revile the Apaches to appease their consciences, but you must try to ignore their acts of hatred. If they refuse to be ignored, use words before force. In big trouble, the white men will always win because of the force of numbers. But trouble begins small. Always try to talk your way out of the small trouble and thereby avoid losing the final, large argument.

As he entered the fort, Cuchillo steeled himself for the abuse and verbal outrages that he would be automatically subjected to. As challenging as the taunt might be, he must manage to control his hot, blind temper. He could demand satisfaction and seek to achieve it with cool calculation and with all his senses unimpaired.

Had rage been boiling inside him at that crucial moment, he would have died. For as Cuchillo turned, a Remington was cocked and aimed at his chest.

Published July 01, 2023
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04: THE DEATH TRAIN

The wagon train had already been hit by several fierce Indian attacks and many had died. Now came an even greater danger - starvation and thirst.

It seemed only a matter of time before the strongest of the survivors would begin to fall from weakness and fear. A few even hoped to a quick end in a fight to the death against the relentless redskins - anything to rid them of the desperate craving for food and water.

And then as the days passed and their needs grew, there seemed to be only one answer - cannibalism. And if anyone was going to be eaten, it would be the hostage redskin first ... Cuchillo Oro.

Published May 01, 2023
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03: DUEL TO THE DEATH

The white men robbed Cuchillo Oro of everything but his pride ...

Captured and falsely accused of killing a white man by bigoted townsfolk, Cuchillo faces the hangman's knot. But the grandson of the great chief, Mangas Colorado was not one to suffer the penalty of false accusations.

He must escape his captors and find the true killer to clear his name; to defeat the vendetta of an entire town with only his cold Apache cunning, and the deadly golden knife from which he took his name.

And he would take payment in blood.

Published February 01, 2023
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02: KNIFE IN THE NIGHT

Cuchillo Oro, Apache warrior, continues his bloody bid for revenge on the man who removed two of his fingers joint by joint, destroyed the peace of his tribal settlement, and murdered his squaw and son.

Lieutenant Pinner is a marked man - a ruthless and sadistic Indian-hater who has finally met his match.

Luck seems to be with him for the moment but sooner or later his time will come, and when it does he knows he can expect no mercy.

Published November 01, 2022
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01: THE FIRST DEATH

Cuchillo Oro, the Golden Knife. He gave himself the name in 1861 - the year he swore vengeance upon the white man, the year an Indian-hating army officer cut off his index finger for "stealing" an ornate golden knife, the year his wife and infant son were murdered by an army lieutenant.

He's six feet three inches tall, but he's a big man in more ways than one. He's the grandson of the great chief Mangas Colorado. He's seen his people mistreated, lied to, falsely accused, and cruelly punished ... and he can't forget. Not while the white man walks on his land.

An expert with the knife, rifle, gun, and bow, Cuchillo rides alone and moves everywhere, everywhere there are white men, unafraid to kill or be killed. There's no turning back now, not for Cuchillo and not for the white men who have persecuted his innocent people.

There is only revenge.

Published July 01, 2022
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