Until Day Breaks

A Saga of Texas #1

by Will Cook

North Texas, 1870. For three years a delicate peace has existed between the U.S. Army and the Comanche, led by Quanah Parker. The architect of this peace, General Tracy Cameron, has given an impassioned speech in Washington to plead for continued peace with the Plains Indians. His aide, Second Lieutenant Jim Gary, has been assigned to persuade General William T. Sherman that his plan for a military attack on the Comanche would be a deadly error. Meanwhile, Quanah Parker is organizing the Kiowa and Cheyenne to join him in an effort to drive the white buffalo hunters from the plains. As each side forms battle plans, a spark is all that is needed to ignite the frontier into total war!

242 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 1999

About the author

William Everett Cook was born in Richmond, Indiana in 1922 and died in 1964. He began writing for publication in 1952 for Popular Library. During his short life Cook was a soldier, commercial aviator, deep-sea diver, logger, peace officer, and writer of western and adventure novels and stories. His hobbies included sports car racing, sailing, judo, and barbershop singing. His pseudonyms include Wayne Everett, James Keene, Frank Peace, and William Richards.

William Everett Cook was a writer of western and adventure novels and stories. Collection consists of correspondence (273 letters), manuscripts for his novels, short stories, and one novella, and an extensive collection of western pulp fiction containing short stories by Cook.

Reviews

[Charles van Buren · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not very believable

Tale of an army officer trying to make peace with the Comanche. What the Comanche wanted was their land and for the Americans to stop killing the buffalo.

I have become accustomed to inaccuracies regarding weapons in modern Westerns but this older one suffers from the same problem. The Evans rifles and carbines were not chambered in .44-40.

[Chris Stephens · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very white interpretation of peace,
A very white/christian view of Indians,
I would not offer it to my Native American next-door neighbor.