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A Spur Award-winning Author The reality of frontier life in Kansas becomes brutally clear to twelve-year-old James Coady McIlvain after his father is scalped and he is taken prisoner by hostile Indians. Helped to escape, Coady finds himself with a sharpshooter that he imagines is the embodiment of his hero, Buffalo Bill Cody. Boggs has created a gripping Western story that juxtaposes the myths and legends created by Eastern storytellers with the often brutal realities of frontier life. Available only in Western 14.Boggs, Johnny D. is the author of 'Big Fifty', published 2004 under ISBN 9780786267125 and ISBN 0786267127.
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