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Comanche Come-On (Mountain Jack Pike)

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Many years back Robert J. Randisi wrote several books about Mountain Jack Pike under the name "Joseph Meek". Joe Meek was an actual mountain man back during that era of the 1820s onward. So appropriately the name Joseph Meek seems a good match for a string of books (15) concerning the mountain man era.

This book has its beginnings in a Colorado River settlement. Later the action moves on to southern New Mexico into Comanche country. Mountain Jack Pike, his partner Skins McConnell will travel with the famous scout Kit Carson, another scout named Jack Stack, and 3 Delaware Indians named: Jonesy, Mantooth, and Tom Broad to hunt buffalo. They find buffalo but also find angry Comanche Indians. At one point as many as 60 braves and 12 women are on the trail of Pike and Carson, and the Comanche aren't interested in hunting buffalo. It is a war party out and out. The Comanche are angry that whites have entered their territory but are even angrier that the white hunters are shooting and skinning their buffalo.

Author 'Meek' (Randisi) has structured his well written and very enjoyable tale around a Prologue, Part One-Settlement, Part Two-Comanche Country, Part Three-Mule Fort, Part Four-Comanche Hunt, Part Five-On The Run, Part Six-The Hunter, and a final Epilogue.

In a 190 page turner, the book offers a good few hour's read.

Recommended.