Ride The Man Down Author:William Maltese The Ridgemonts are wealthy and influential New Mexico Territory landowners. Their status purportedly is purchased by seemingly inexhaustible capital provided by their reputed Deadmen Hills' gold mine. — It's only human nature that others want to share in their bounty. That these others have to die has less to do with keeping the "mine" location a... more » secret than with concealing other mysteries bequeathed by the long-lived and elusive native-American shaman Calenza. Secrets even the Ridgemonts can likely never fully comprehend.« less