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Blazin' Guns

by John Guffey; co-published with John Guffey Enterprises, LLC.

142 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0829; ISBN 1-55395-115-8; US$17.00, C$19.50, EUR14.00, £10.00

Western Historical Fiction.

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About the Book In the Old West, few men were more feared than the outlaw, Jake Reynolds. Everywhere he rode, death followed. Indian Territory, Palo Duro Canyon, and the panhandle of Texas were Jake Reynolds' domain. United States Marshal, Logan Corrigan, was obsessed with finding this outlaw. He found him among savage and blood-thirsty Indians who wanted all white men dead.

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About the Author From high school, history has been John Guffey's love. However, with the press of business and raising a family, the writing of western historical fiction was not possible until his retirement. The writing of western historical fiction is not a simple task. It takes dedication and a love of history to create western historical entertainment. There are many pretentious manuscripts written by people struggling to sound literary, but John Guffey has captured the history with settings of the West that feel authentic, they are vivid, well researched, and his characters' dialogue is terse and believable. Truly, there is a sense of history in John Guffey's writing. Blazin' Guns is one of the many stories he has written; plus the Orphan, The Innocent, The Man From Green River, The Man from Purgatory, The Senator, The Survivor Series, The Doctor's Plot and others. "When You Desire The Very Best In Western Historical Entertainment. Come Experience The Old West."

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Sample Excerpt

Historical Information

October 21, 1867, the United States government signed a treaty at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, with the Kiowa and Comanche Indians. One week later, the Arapahos and Southern Cheyenne signed the treaty also. This treaty gave the Indians a large tract of land north of the Red River, owned by the Choctaws and Chickasaws in Indian territory, about three million acres. In return, the Indians gave up their hunting grounds in Kansas and Colorado. This agreement, with its side pacts and pledges, stated that no white man was to roam south of the Arkansas River. Neither side, however, seemed aware that such a policy could not apply to the broad buffalo range of the Texas panhandle.

Since the state of Texas was not a party to the Medicine Lodge Treaty, the pact and its side pledges had no validity in Texas. Moreover, the state of Texas had joined the Union and retained all the land east of the Rio Grande River as public land.

The Quaker Peace Policy of the United States opposed removing the Indians from northwest Texas. Before the ink was even dry on the paper, white men invaded northwest Texas and began the wholesale slaughter of the buffalo. Also, it became the policy of the Grant Administration to enforce a "scorched-earth" policy to force the Indians onto the reservation.

This wholesale slaughter of the buffalo violated the Medicine Lodge Treaty and Quaker Peace Policy, and forced the Indians to attack the settlers and buffalo hunters at Adobe Walls June 27, 1874.

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Catalogue Information

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