Boggs Johnny D.
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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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"The Civil War is over. The future of the American West is up for grabs. Any man crazy enough to lead a herd of Texas longhorns to the north stands to make a fortune--and make history. That man would be Nelson Story. A bold entrepreneur and miner, he knows a golden opportunity when he sees one. But it won't be easy. Cowboys and bandits got guns, farmers got sick livestock, and the Army's got their own reasons to stop the drive. Even worse, Story's...
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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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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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It's the spring of 1864, and times are hard in Washington County, Arkansas, especially for thirteen-year-old Travis Ford. He hasn't heard from his father, a sergeant in the 2nd Arkansas Cavalry, in months. His mother is struggling to make ends meet on the family farm near Poison Spring. All Travis really wants to do is to follow his passion--to make up adventure stories in the style of Alexandre Dumas. But the Civil War keeps getting in his way....
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Johnny D. Boggs turns the battlefield itself into a character in this historical retelling of Custer's Last Stand, when George Custer led most of his command to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in southern Montana in 1876.
More than forty first-person narratives are used-Indian and white, military and civilian, men and women-to paint a panorama of the battle itself.
Boggs brings the events and personalities of the Battle of the Little...
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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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Known as "The Scottish Gun, " ex-Texas Ranger Ben Cameron rode into the dying mining town of Purgatoire for a drink--which means that he won't stop until he's good and drunk. Faced with a series of murders, the townspeople of Purgatoire look to Cameron for protection. The question is, can Ben Cameron still deliver?
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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...