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Tomahawk
Brett Cooper, an Indian fighting veteran of the Fetterman massacre, was busy helping in the construction of Fort Stock in Dakota territory in the 1870's. He was soon to be promoted from sergeant to lieutenant in the United States Fifth Cavalry. However, the frontier was soon to explode into the biggest Indian war ever known. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull were soon to be embroiled with Custer, Crook and Terry.
The nearby tribe of Lakota Sioux, led by Red Hand and his sub Chief American Eagle considered themselves untouched and protected by a Sacred Tomahawk in their possession. The valuable Aztec axe, encrusted with gems and gold, was lusted after by the white man, particularly the renegade scout Samuel South and his side kick, wagon master Jeb Turner. Little Pony and his wife Prairie Moon were under threat by the lustful Slender Elk.
Lieutenant Brett Cooper was having an affair with Captain Matthew Driscoll's wife, Veronica, a situation that was about to erupt, much to the chagrin of Fort Stock's Commander, Colonel Macintyre.
Then there arrived the temporary secondment of Lieutenant Brett Cooper and Captain Driscoll to Custer's Seventh Cavalry just before the battle of the Little Big Horn.
The nearby tribe of Lakota Sioux, led by Red Hand and his sub Chief American Eagle considered themselves untouched and protected by a Sacred Tomahawk in their possession. The valuable Aztec axe, encrusted with gems and gold, was lusted after by the white man, particularly the renegade scout Samuel South and his side kick, wagon master Jeb Turner. Little Pony and his wife Prairie Moon were under threat by the lustful Slender Elk.
Lieutenant Brett Cooper was having an affair with Captain Matthew Driscoll's wife, Veronica, a situation that was about to erupt, much to the chagrin of Fort Stock's Commander, Colonel Macintyre.
Then there arrived the temporary secondment of Lieutenant Brett Cooper and Captain Driscoll to Custer's Seventh Cavalry just before the battle of the Little Big Horn.
138 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 13, 2014
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April 10, 2024
The Plains Indians (as they were called then - now Native Americans) on the warpath in the 1870s. A very well put-together yarn with the Battle of Little Big Horn at its heart along with an Aztec golden tomahawk which, rather like the rifle in Anthony Mann’s classic 1950 western Winchester 73 (starring James Stewart) keeps changing hands.
Both characterisation and location description descriptions are excellent. The crisp dialogue gives Tomahawk the charm of fifties western and the novel certainly shows sympathy with the Native American. First class.
David Lowther. Author of The Blue Pencil, Liberating Belsen, Two Families at War, The Summer of ‘39 (all published by Sacristy Press) and Ordinary Heroes (published by I M Books)
Both characterisation and location description descriptions are excellent. The crisp dialogue gives Tomahawk the charm of fifties western and the novel certainly shows sympathy with the Native American. First class.
David Lowther. Author of The Blue Pencil, Liberating Belsen, Two Families at War, The Summer of ‘39 (all published by Sacristy Press) and Ordinary Heroes (published by I M Books)
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