In "Renegades Beat the War Drum," frontiersman Caleb Dorn, known among the Indians as Silent Outcast, tries to negotiate a peace with Red Sleeves and his band of Apaches who have surrounded the town of Denton and cut off all access. But he has to face the Apaches, who Sam Ginn, an unscrupulous Comanchero, has incited to war for his own gain....