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xA xA In this Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Short Novel young Daniel Killstraight returns to the reservation after spending seven years back east forced to travel the white mans road by learning their ways at the Carlisle Industrial School in Pennsylvania After watching a childhood friend Jimmy Comes Last hang on the Fort Smith gallows for a grisly double-murder Daniel is asked by his old friends mother to prove that her dead son was innocent of the crimexAxAxA Yet Daniel has his own problems trying to learn who he really is after being so far from his people for so long Reluctantly he joins the tribal Indian Police and slowly begins to believe that Jimmys mother was right that her son wasnt guilty and as he digs into the crime -- getting help from a Cherokee policeman and a deputy US marshal -- he starts to uncover something much bigger than murderxAxAxA Set during the turmoil of the reservation years when Senator Henry L Dawes was trying to bring an end to the reservation system and its corruption KILLSTRAIGHT is not only a murder mystery but a story of a young Indians journey to discover himself while disproving the stereotypical Western portrayals of Comanche Indians as soulless bloodthirsty savages.



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Johnny D. Boggs

Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, been bucked off horses (breaking two ribs last time) , shot rapids in a canoe, hiked across mountains and deserts, traipsed around ghost towns, and spent hours poring over microfilm in library archives -- all in the name of finding a good story. He was won six Spur Awards from Western Writers of America, a Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and has been called by Booklist magazine "among the best western writers at work today." He also writes for numerous magazines, including True West, Wild West, Boys' Life and Western Art & Architecture, speaks and lectures often, studies old movies (Westerns and film noir) and even finds time to coach Little League. A native of South Carolina and former newspaper journalist, he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife and son. His website is www.johnnydboggs.com.



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