Killstraight stories
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Author
Series
Killstraight stories volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When a boy comes to be 14, it's high time he starts to earn his keep (in 1896 anyway), so Caleb Hart gets packed off on a train from St. Louis to his uncle Captain Frank Hart's ranch in New Mexico. Before leaving, Caleb is counseled by his father that he "rides for the brand," and he'd best not forget it. Once in the frontier territory, Caleb learns the ins and outs of cowboying from the seasoned hands of the Hart brand. Among the revelations: real...
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Series
Killstraight stories volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
He was the only Kwahadi Comanche who had been sent to the Carlisle Industrial School where he was educated among Lakotas. Cheyennes Kiowas and Pawnees. It was there that his name was changed to Daniel Killstraight. When he arrived on his way back to the Comanche reservation, Killstraight was in time to witness the public hanging of Jimmy Comes Last, convicted of two murders. But it could be that Jimmy Comes Last, who refused to say anything at all,...
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Series
Killstraight stories volume 3
Language
English
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Description
When we met Daniel Killstraight, he was a young Comanche man willing to risk his own life to prove the innocence of a man convicted of murder. Now Daniel is a "Metal Shirt," a tribal police officer. When an Indian accidentally kills his own daughter after he's had too much whiskey (a prohibited substance), Daniel is instructed to find out who's behind the running of the illegal liquor; but the evidence points to a white man whom Daniel has no authority...
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Series
Killstraight stories volume 4
Language
English
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Comanche Tribal Police Sergeant Daniel Killstraight is sent to Fort Worth, Texas, with another Indian-school educated Comanche, Charles Flint, to show off Captain Richard Pratt's Carlisle Industrial School and his theory of "Killing the Indian" to save the man -- i.e., turn the Comanches and other Indians into "white men" by assimilation. Chief Quanah Parker is in Fort Worth, too, mainly to negotiate a new lease agreement with powerful Texas ranchers...
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Series
Killstraight stories volume 5
Language
English
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"After visiting his late mother's people on the Mescalero reservation, Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight waits to catch a train home when local cowboys bring disturbing news: an Apache has brutally murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and locals want to lynch him. Killstraight has no jurisdiction in this territory and he doesn't care much for Apaches. He knows nothing about Deming, the murdered girl, or the accused killer,...
