Sunset Pass

Sunset Pass or Running the Gauntlet through Apache Land is a 1890 western novel by Charles King. King’s tales from Apache land where the author was wounded in battle. The Battle of Sunset Pass was fought in 1874. .A troop of U. S. Army soldiers were dispatched after the theft of livestock by a band of Tonto Apaches. The Americans found the raiders at Sunset Pass, in Coconino County, Arizona.