Devil's Backbone (Plainsmen (Paperback))
Language: English
Published by St. Martin's Press August 1991, 1991
Series: Book 5 of 16 - Plainsmen
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- Title
- Devil's Backbone (Plainsmen (Paperback))
- Author
- TERRY C. JOHNSTON
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press August 1991
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312925743
- ISBN 13
- 9780312925741
- Series
- Book 5 of 16: Plainsmen
- Seller catalogs
- Western
Devil's Backbone
Terry C. Johnston
The Modoc Indians and American officials had been flirting with war in the Oregon Territory for some time. When Modoc chief Keintpoos murdered a Civil War hero during negotiations, the U.S. Army launched a deadly offensive against the rebel tribe. Besieged in the natural stronghold of the Lava Beds near Tule Lake, the Modocs waged bloody war for seven long months.
Sergeant Seamus Donegan, on the trail of his uncle, Ian O'Rourke, arrived at Tule Lake just as the conflict erupted. Soon Donegan and the brooding O'Rourke found themselves embroiled in what would be the costliest war in frontier history...
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About the Author
Terry C. Johnston was born on the first day of 1947 on the plains of Kansas, and lived all his life in the American West. His first novel, Carry the Wind, won the Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award from the Western Writers of America, and his subsequent books appeared on bestseller lists throughout the country.
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