Catalog Search Results
1) Badger boy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Civil War is over and Confederate Texas is reluctantly yielding to Union military peace-keepers and regulations imposed by Washington. David "Rusty" Shannon is the member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Comanche depredations. He learns that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his farm on the Colorado River, and discovers that the land around his home is filled with hostiles Indians, Confederates,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Red River Valley, 1869. Hordes of ex-Confederate soldiers have emerged from the piney hills and swamps of the Louisiana backcountry in a final, bloody show of defiance. Captain Douglas Owens of the 4th Cavalry is ordered to reclaim the God-forsaken land from its murderous outlaw gangs. With his options dwindling, Owens takes a squad of soldiers under his command in a last desperate bid for freedom and justice that would change the course of history....
Author
Language
English
Description
Three years after the Little Bighorn massacre, the American Indian Wars ended. The Colorado Utes were scattered in four relatively small bands. Then the appointment of an Indian agent steeped in the acquisitive philosophy of Manifest Destiny ignited an imminent explosion, which came in the form of a bloody massacre and five-day siege.