Blood Brothers

The loneliness of greedy hide hunters, the courage of desperate men under attack and the anguish of a vanquished people fighting for their freedom converge on the harsh, sunburnt plains of the Texas Panhandle in 1873-’74 in Jeff Guinn’s second volume of his Cash “C.M.” McLendon series, Buffalo Trail (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $27). Guinn’s hero, C.M., has drifted in, penniless, from the Arizona Territory (the setting from the first book, Glorious) to Dodge City, Kansas, where, like a latte