The Way of A Texan Author:Walt Coburn BLOOD MONEY — When Bass Slocum was 21 he first learned that his real father had been a notorious outlaw - long since dead at the hands of the Texas Rangers. Then a drunken stranger threw down on Bass in a border town, and it was shoot first or die. Bass became an outlaw with a price on his head -- like his father before him. It was a hate-fill... more »ed Bass Slocum who lit out across the border and became a gun for hire. His loyalty could be bought and it may have been blood money but it spent easily enough....« less