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The Outsider
Leon Moses wasn't going to let a cheating lawyer, rustlers and Apaches stop him from settling on the land he had bought with his pay from long, hard years with the cavalry. Leon was black & he knew he had to prove that courage knew no color.
134 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1996
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Frank Roderus
98 books7 followersFrank Roderus wrote his first story—it was a western—when he was five. It was really awful, as might be expected, but his mother kept that typed and spell-checked short story tucked away until the day she died.
Later, Frank became a newspaper reporter, thinking that books are written by authors which he most assuredly was not. He kept trying to write though, and eventually did it wrong enough to learn how to get it right. That first sale, a young adult novel published by Independence Press, was more than thirty years and a good many books ago.
As a journalist, the Colorado Press Association awarded Frank Roderus their highest award, the Sweepstakes Award, for the best news story of 1980, and the Western Writers of America has twice named Frank recipient of their prestigious Spur Award. Frank passed away at age 73 in December 2015.
Later, Frank became a newspaper reporter, thinking that books are written by authors which he most assuredly was not. He kept trying to write though, and eventually did it wrong enough to learn how to get it right. That first sale, a young adult novel published by Independence Press, was more than thirty years and a good many books ago.
As a journalist, the Colorado Press Association awarded Frank Roderus their highest award, the Sweepstakes Award, for the best news story of 1980, and the Western Writers of America has twice named Frank recipient of their prestigious Spur Award. Frank passed away at age 73 in December 2015.
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October 14, 2018
An FR Western About/A Black Rancher/A Racist Family/Attacking Apaches
DR has penned a western about a black man who leaves the Army after 15 years. He purchased a ranch but find the attorney had cheated him. He is befriended by a white rancher and they become friends. The two men combine their cattle and the new man's horses and drives them to market.
The black man is not revived by the community until he stood an Apache raid. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
DR has penned a western about a black man who leaves the Army after 15 years. He purchased a ranch but find the attorney had cheated him. He is befriended by a white rancher and they become friends. The two men combine their cattle and the new man's horses and drives them to market.
The black man is not revived by the community until he stood an Apache raid. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
November 16, 2014
GREAT READ!
I really enjoyed this particular story told from the perspective of the black man. I find it particularly painful to read about the prejudice against any race and just what individuals had to put up with. Even in this day and age when we are supposed to be so enlightened there is still the same biased outlook towards people of different color. This was a very good read.
I really enjoyed this particular story told from the perspective of the black man. I find it particularly painful to read about the prejudice against any race and just what individuals had to put up with. Even in this day and age when we are supposed to be so enlightened there is still the same biased outlook towards people of different color. This was a very good read.
August 22, 2016
Great story
This was one of the best black character involved western, I've every read. The author embodied the day to day struggles of a black man owning property and living in America at the turn of the century. It's not enough to survive whatever nature threw at you, but the hate of men you have never wronged. Great story one I keep in my personal collection of books.
This was one of the best black character involved western, I've every read. The author embodied the day to day struggles of a black man owning property and living in America at the turn of the century. It's not enough to survive whatever nature threw at you, but the hate of men you have never wronged. Great story one I keep in my personal collection of books.
January 4, 2015
Good book
Those tuckers would have deserved every bit of that apache raid, but instead lleons ranch was the one to get trashed I loved that ending
Those tuckers would have deserved every bit of that apache raid, but instead lleons ranch was the one to get trashed I loved that ending
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