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Jake Paynter novels volume 1
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"Jake Paynter is a doomed man. Haunted by an abusive childhood and his participation in atrocities of the Civil War, he seeks the isolation of the Plains Cavalry as a white officer for an all-Black buffalo soldier troop. Now, he is in irons and certain to be hanged for killing his captain after refusing an inhumane order. Despite his best efforts to maintain isolation, he starts to make friends on his journey to trial. The people of the wagon train...
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"Damnable news has reached Fort Verde. Outlaw Jessup Henry and his gang of thugs are raising hell north of Santa Fe, one homestead massacre after another. Now they're on the run in Arizona Territory, evading the law. Cavalryman Tom Skinner's command: charge south with his patrol and wipe them out. But Skinner knows the land. Military decree be damned, he's deserting the wayward route--against orders--for the right one. There's more at risk than his...
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This biographical novel about the life of Kit Carson-frontiersman, fur trapper, Army scout and later military officer, and always a trusted friend to the Indian nations-focuses primarily on the seventeen years from 1831 to 1848 when Carson was among the foremost of the men engaged in war.
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A diary written by Conner Munro's son, Smith, tells the story of how the state relay station, Soldier's Farewell, got its name and what happened during the years it operated in the shadow of the growing conflict between the states -- a time when Julian, Smith's older brother, an officer in the U.S. Army stationed in New Mexico in 1860, told his father Conner and his brother Smith that he has been reassigned to work as a spy in the coming conflict....
5) FORT MISERY
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Fort Misery volume 1
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"The baddest men in the West battle for their lives against a relentless band of bloodthirsty prairie rats in Fort Misery - first in an electrifying new Western series. Captain Peter Joseph Kellerman was once a promising career soldier who'd proven his mettle in battle time and again. Now he's fighting a battle with a whiskey bottle. He's also in charge of Fort Benjamin Grierson, located west of hell, deep in Arizona Territory's Mohawk Valley on the...
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