Black Sun: The Battle of Summit Springs, 1869 (The Plainsmen by Terry C. Johnston

By Terry C. Johnston

Publish 12 months note: initially released April 1st 1991
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No one captures the consideration, event and drama of the brave women and men who tamped the yankee West like award-winning writer Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen sequence brims with colourful characters, fierce battles and compelling historic lore.

Grueling iciness gave method to bloody spring as Seamus Donegan and his fellow military scouts rode west with the Kansas Pacific Railway. Led by means of the mythical "Buffalo" invoice Cody, they withstood blazing hit-and-run raids by means of Cheynne puppy Soldiers—while trailed by way of a skulking enemy from Donegan's prior. Then, in midsummer, the fleeing Cheyennes camped. And the fifth Cavalry fastened the brutal shock assault that might supply upward push to a fierce new warrior-leader named White Horse: the conflict of Summit Springs, 1869.

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