sizzling ! Hondo 1953 by L'Amour, Louis

"Hondo," a 1953 novel by Louis L'Amour, tells the story of Hondo Lane, a U.S. Army scout, who finds a homestead in Apache territory. The novel is based on L'Amour's short story "The Gift of the Cochise," published in Collier's magazine in 1952, and is also a novelization of the 1953 film of the same name, according to Wikipedia. The narrative, set in 1870 Arizona, follows Hondo's interactions with the homesteaders, including Angie Lowe, a woman raising her son, and the Apache chief, Vittoro, as tensions rise between the white settlers and the Native Americans