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Battle Of Fortune Wells
In 1875 the last of the free roaming Comanche people surrendered to the US Army at Fort Griffith, ultimately to be placed on reservation lands. But reservations are not prisons with walls, and a young Comanche leader named Aruka was defiant and refused to submit to the authority of the Army. Rather than let his beloved war-horse be taken by the hated whites, Aruka killed the animal in front of the soldiers. Because of this, he was severely and brutally beaten. Aruka would survive the vicious beating, but in that one dramatic act of defiance the “Free” Comanche nation at last resigned and the Comanche warrior named Aruka was gone forever. From that moment on, the Comanche people everywhere would know the story of the man who’d “Killed His Horse.” Very soon the white people would come to know of him too, when he rose again to fight the last Comanche war. Hundreds would die before this war concluded. The last Comanche war really happened. This work is fiction, but represents the struggle between cultures on the vast west central plains of 1875 to 1878.
308 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 9, 2019
About the author
Daniel C. Chamberlain
5 books10 followersDan has a long resume in law enforcement, having been a police officer, a Chief of Police, a retired Special Agent with the AIr Force Office of Special Investigations and a Director of Security for a multinational corporation.
Dan is now a registered oncology nurse at a major regional hospital.
THE LONG SHOOTERS is Dan's first novel and has had great success, having spent 6 weeks at Kindle's #1 spot for westerns. http://www.solsticepublishing.com/the...
Dan lives in Illinois with his wife Noreen and together they've raised three lovely daughters, Lesley, Ashley and Rachel.
An avid outdoorsman, hunter, shooter, fisherman and musician, Dan has added "Bestselling Author" to his list of life-long goals.
Dan is now a registered oncology nurse at a major regional hospital.
THE LONG SHOOTERS is Dan's first novel and has had great success, having spent 6 weeks at Kindle's #1 spot for westerns. http://www.solsticepublishing.com/the...
Dan lives in Illinois with his wife Noreen and together they've raised three lovely daughters, Lesley, Ashley and Rachel.
An avid outdoorsman, hunter, shooter, fisherman and musician, Dan has added "Bestselling Author" to his list of life-long goals.
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December 15, 2020
Well balanced, great story
Second of this author's books I've read, and can't state which one I liked more. Different genres, but both compelling reads.
Tells a great story set within a history generally told by the victors. Balanced the conventional with a progressive understanding that the Western expansion by white settlers had reason to provoke conflict with Native American peoples who, for millennia, battled each other in Savage wars.
Recommend this book to anyone-even a devoted reader of non-fiction like myself.
Second of this author's books I've read, and can't state which one I liked more. Different genres, but both compelling reads.
Tells a great story set within a history generally told by the victors. Balanced the conventional with a progressive understanding that the Western expansion by white settlers had reason to provoke conflict with Native American peoples who, for millennia, battled each other in Savage wars.
Recommend this book to anyone-even a devoted reader of non-fiction like myself.
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