Johnny D. Boggs
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Weather and creaking joints permitting, Jim Hawkins could be found every weekend sitting in the rocker outside the Manix store, whittling and spitting. Jim said hardly anything. Ever. That's how Henry Lancaster felt. Sure, he'd hear his grandfather talk to his grandmother fairly often - But Jim hardly said anything to anybody else. That all changed when he took Henry along on a scouting trip, and told his grandson how it was that winter of 1886 -...
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The only way to escape the purgatory of the Florence Stockade was to die. So on February 3, 1865, Zebulon Hogan died and was buried in the prisoners' cemetery. It was young Ebenezer Chase, a runaway slave, who saw his hand clawing out of the dirt over the shallow grave. Zeb swore an oath to the other prisoners to hunt and kill a traitorous sergeant, but he knows nothing of the surrounding country. Ebenezer does. Together, they may get where they want...
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Bass Reeves was a man of color and a deputy United States marshal. For thirteen years he was sided by deputy marshal Dave Adams, a white man. Bennie Reeves was Bass' son, who shot down his unarmed wife who had been cheating on him and then disappeared. U.S. Marshal Leo E. Bennett had reservations about handing the warrant to Bass Reeves to be served against Bennie, but for Bass there was no reservation. His son had broken the law and was a fugitive....
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Jeremiah Cole has been convicted and sentenced to hang for lynching a priest, a crime that shocked all New Mexico Territory. Yet most people believe that Cole, the son of wealthy Senator Roman Cole, will never be executed. Father Virgilio is so convinced that he will escape execution at Chama that he has raised a reward for anyone who will successfully transport the prisoner there. Britton Wade, a gunfighter and gambler, is determined to do just that....
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His Arrows Fly Straight into the Hearts of His Enemies was his Comanche name. But the Pale Eyes called him Daniel Killstraight, and that is the name he is known by since he returned to the reservation and became a native police officer. Toyarocho, in a drunken stupor on contraband whiskey, rolled over onto his four-year-old daughter and smothered her. The Indian agent wants Killstraight to find out who supplied the whiskey - a task that is both difficult...
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Young Comanches Daniel Killstraight and Charles Flint have been called to Texas. Captain Pratt will be giving a talk on the transformations brought about by the Carlisle Industrial School, of which Killstraight and Flint are shining examples. They'll be joining a Comanche delegation led by Quanah Parker, who will be negotiating grasslands leases - until blown-out gas lamps in Quanah Parker's room kill a Comanche chief and put Parker in a coma.
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Killstraight stories volume 5
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"When Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight hears an Apache has murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and the locals want to lynch him, Daniel rushes to help a fellow Indian. Although he has no jurisdiction there, Killstraight sets out to prove the wrong man has been accused in this town that hates Indians"--
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"It's late 1860 and out at Soldier's Farewell, a relay station in the middle of nowhere, the Munros are far removed from everything - including the smoldering conflict between the Northern and Southern states. There's nothing to worry about, Smith Munro keeps hearing from his father. But Smith can see the way tempers between passengers flare, the way more soldiers are coming through. One of these soldiers is his own brother, Julien. What Smith can't...
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"Setting up shop in rip-roaring Spanish Fort, Texas, in the early 1870s, Big Eddie Hager outfitted many cowboys in boots as they headed up the Chisholm Trail. Hager's fame and his company grew with the years, turning Hager Boots & Company, Incorporated, into a global legend. But when a Dallas newspaper reporter arrives in what's left of Spanish Fort, an old-timer sets the record straight by telling the true story of the man behind the Hager legend-the...
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Buffalo trace: Hallie Mae Edson and her brother, Tom, join the newly formed Indiana Territorial Rangers. When another Ranger disappears, Hallie comes face to face with danger in a way she has never faced before. She not only has to save the Ranger, but herself, with skills, will, and courage she didn't know she had.
Two old Comanches: Imprisoned in a dark, damp and inhospitable Army post in St. Augustine, Florida, an aging Comanche warrior and his...
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"The Trading Post and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features fourteen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier through the early 1900s and feature exciting new characters who face life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society. Ranging from high-action traditional Westerns to introspective...