Chuka

by Richard Jessup

Living at the fringes of the U.S. Army, the Frontier, and themselves, the garrison at Fort Clendennon hunkers down with a rag-tag group of travellers and prepares for an Indian onslaught.

Can the Army’s most dishonorable, untrustworthy, and insubordinate group of soldiers—too rotten to depend on but not quite bad enough to discharge—band together against the common threat?

And will the notorious gunfighter—known only as Chuka—follow his gut and keep on passing through or will he unholster his six-guns to go against the very odds that had saved his skin countless times before?

This book is part of the Richard Jessup Rejuvenation Project. We will be republishing all of Jessup's books that we can, including those written under his pseudonym Richard Telfair. We aim to have nearly his entire body of work back in print by 2015.

Genres: Westerns

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

Also wrote under the name Richard Telfair

Richard Jessup was a prolific American author and screenwriter.

Reviews

[D. E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

An RJ. Colorado Western Action Adventure (C) (EGVE)

RJ. has penned a Colorado western action adventure titled, "Chuka" which begins with three men approaching an Army Post in Central Colorado enroute to Montana. One is an ex Army scout, one is an ex Yankee soldier and the other a gunman named Chuka. There are two women traveling from New York to California. One is an older escort and the other a young woman who did not want to marry a man in New York. Indians attack the fort and slowly but surely the Indians manage a o kill everyone except for two survivors. This is an excellent read for the genre.....Rod Taylor starred in the movie Chuka.....DEHS

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book, but

too many typos. Also, please learn the differences between singular, plural, singular possessive, and plural possesive tenses. Almost every usage in this book was wrong.

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dang worthwhile.