The Black Rifle - Hardcover

Chandler, Roy F.

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9781885633231: The Black Rifle
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1885633238 ISBN 13: 9781885633231
Publisher: Iron Brigade Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

The Pennsylvania frontier of 1754 could seem too deadly to endure. War parties swept from the protection of mountain strongholds to kill and destroy the white settlers invading their forests.

Driven from their traditional homelands, Shawnee and Delaware bands trotted east along ancient warrior paths seeking vengeance. To the north, the Six Nations of Iroquois Confederacy possessed the might to drive all whites into the sea.

Lured by land ownership, Jack Elan moved his small family west of the great Susquehanna River and beyond civilization’s comforting safety to wrench a living from the virgin forests and meadows of the Allegheny foothills.

Toquisson, of the Shawnee, known as the Heart-Eater, also hunted the rich game lands. His discovery of Elan’s cabin nestled against Concocheague Mountain began a year long struggle to the death.

The Black Rifle speaks of Jack Elan’s soul-devouring efforts to become a frontier killer capable of battling a Shawnee warrior, and of Elan’s search for a very special rifle to bring him final victory.

Elan must harden his heart and his body. He must learn to shoot and scout beyond skills he had ever imagined. Then, tempered by the fires of massacre and blinding hatred, he must face in battle the savage enemy who had destroyed all that Elan had valued.

Mentored by Rob Shatto, the unmatchable frontiersman who was raised among the Delaware and Blue Moccasin, the most renowned of all message carriers, Elan carries his fight to his enemy.

Long out of print, these novels have become impossible to locate. It is Iron Brigade Publishing’s intent to reprint and make available all those soul-gripping stories. Arrowmaker, reprinted in 2000 was the first; The Black Rifle is the second.

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About the Author

Roy F. Chandler, MSgt. U.S. Army (retired) was an active duty soldier for twenty years. A veteran of WWII and Korea, he operated a sniper school, and during the 1950s he was a test NCO at the arctic Test Board in Alaska. Roy Chandler has been a nationally recognized big game hunter and writer for forty-five years. He has authored 57 published books.

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Publisher
Iron Brigade Publishing
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1885633238
ISBN 13 
9781885633231
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
226
Rating
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