John Neely Davis
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"Civil war till late 1970's. West Texas, eastern New Mexico, and the border country of northern Mexico. Francis Chapman, Marin Chapman, Shadrach. There are no Indians"--
"Francis Elmore Chapman was born for the West and but temporarily restrained by an 1875-chance-of-birth in Nashville. Just after his eighteenth birthday, Chapman travels to the Pecos River Valley in the New Mexico Territory with his father. There the younger Chapman witnesses his...
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"After losing wife, children, and hope, Frank Rule becomes a grief-hardened wanderer, tracker, and killer when he needs to be. Rule hits town like a grim, low-flying angel, quietly avenging the murdered or missing."--Back cover.
"Short, bald, and bespectacled, Frank Rule is not a typical Llano Estacado cowboy. While moving his family out of the Rio Grande Valley, an area tormented by Comancheros and bands of renegade Indians, disaster befalls the...
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"For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved authors, in the traditional Western and American frontier fiction genres. Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving 19th century...