Sioux Slaughter

Davy Crockett #2

by David Robbins, David Thompson

With the strength of a mountain lion and a wanderlust just as powerful, Davy Crockett always had to know what lay over the next hill. With only his long rifle for protection and his old friend, Flavius Harris, for company, the pioneer set out, determined to see the legendary splendor of the Great Plains. But that may have been one gallivant too many. The intrepid frontiersman barely survived a mammoth buffalo stampede with his hide and coonskin cap intact. And that was nothing compared to the fate in store for Crockett when he was ambushed by a band of Sioux warriors with blood in their eyes! ABOUT THE AUTHOR David L. Robbins was born on Independence Day 1950. He has written more than three hundred books under his own name and many pen names, among David Thompson, Jake McMasters, Jon Sharpe, Don Pendleton, Franklin W. Dixon, Ralph Compton, Dean L. McElwain, J.D. Cameron and John Killdeer. Robbins was raised in Pennsylvania. When he was seventeen he enlisted in the United States Air Force and eventually rose to the rank of sergeant. After his honorable discharge he attended college and went into broadcasting, working as an announcer and engineer (and later as a program director) at various radio stations. Later still he entered law enforcement and then took to writing full-time. At one time or another Robbins has lived in Pennsylvania, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Montana, Colorado and the Pacific Northwest. He spent a year and a half in Europe, traveling through France, Italy, Greece and Germany. He lived for more than a year in Turkey. Today he is best known for two current long-running series – Wilderness, the generational saga of a Mountain Man and his Shoshone wife – and Endworld is a science fiction series under his own name started in 1986. Among his many other books, Piccadilly Publishing is pleased to be reissuing ebook editions of Wilderness, Davy Crockett and, of course, White Apache. Check us out at www.piccadillypublishing.org

122 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1997

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Reviews

[Mike (the Paladin) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to pick my daughter up today which meant I'd be sitting out in front of the office building for a while, so I picked this little book up (at the library) to read while I waited. It says it's one the "Davy Crockett series". It apparently (based on the flyer in the center of the book) comes from something called the Leisure Western Book Club.

This is a very short little pulp read with large print and written on a level that I'd say anyone over a third grade reading level could handle, a sort of one sitting read.

By the way, if you let a third grader read it make sure they know that this is apparently a different Davy Crockett than we've heard of before... Davy and his sidekick Flavius Harris are just arriving at the Great Plains. Davy wants to see a Buffalo.

Yeah I know, we'll get to what you're probably thinking later.

Anyway while they're out there they run afoul of the Sioux (you probably got that from the title) and bad palefaces and have adventures and fights and battles do all sorts of rescues and good deeds and daring do. You know, just another day in the life of Davy Crockett...oh and Flavius Harris.

Of course David (Davy) Crockett never went west of the Mississippi till he headed for Texas, but then that kind of inconvenient fact never bothered writers during Davy's lifetime either. I remember a reference to a cheap book supposedly called The Adventures of Davy Crockett in the Rocky Mountains. It was I believe what would be called later a "Penny Dreadful".

This little book is frankly a throw back to the days of pulp and "Davy" is chosen to be the hero of a series of them. Were Mr. Crockett alive today I suppose he might be able to take legal action, but I doubt he would. Davy had a sense of humor.

It's a fast paced extremely light read that you can put away fast when you want some brain candy that's REALLY brain candy. I plan on looking for no more of them but if you like adventure westerns...and I mean REALLY fiction, pure imagination, then enjoy.

[Tim Deforest · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very fun entry in this series, it begins with Davy's wanderlust taking him and his sidekick Flavius Harris across the Mississippi to the prairies. A buffalo stampede causes the two men to lose track of each other.

Flavius is an expy of Buddy Ebsen's character from the Disney version of Davy Crockett's life--he has comedic tendencies, but is competent enough to be viewed realistically as Davy's partner. He's also extremely tender-hearted in some cases. Flavius ends up bringing a lost (and dangerously playful) baby buffalo along with him, defending it from wolves and a grizzly bear while trhing to find a buffalo herd to which he can return the beast. In an "Androcles and the Lion" moment, the small buffalo ends up saving Flavius' life later in the book.

Meanwhile, Davy is captured by a tribe of Sioux who suspect he's part of a gang of slavers that have been kidnapping Indian women. He escapes, but soon encounters the slavers. When Davy and Flavius re-connect, they end up in a Last Stand situation defending four Indian women against those slavers.

There's a number of great action scenes, most notably the opening buffalo stampede and the tense, violent "last stand" at the climax. Both Davy and Flavius are fun protagonists and I look forward to future volumes in the series.