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Dying Thunder: The Battle Of Adobe Walls & Palo Canyon, 1874 (Plainsmen) [Mass Market Paperback]

Terry C. Johnston (Author)
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Plainsmen August 28, 2012
Newly freed from service with the 10th Cavalry, Seamus Donegan joins a party of buffalo hunters as they follow the shrinking herds into the ancient hunting grounds of the Kiowa and Comanche. The presence of the white men ignites a storm of Indian fury and the group is besieged. Donegan and some 27 men and one woman take shelter in a few sod shanties. They hold off over 700 braves for five days in the fight at Adobe Walls.

From then on, the U.S. Army would not rest until the Indians of the Staked Plain returned to their reservations. Under the command of Colonel Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Seamus Donegan rides back to that embattled land as the U.S. Army tracks the tribes of Chief Quanan Parker to Palo Duro canyon--for a bloody showdown that would forever change the face of the West.

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"Rich and fascinating...a genuine flavor of the period and of the men who made it what it was."--Washington Post Book World

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (August 28, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312928343
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312928346
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,134,604 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good novel details the end of hostilities on the southern plains, June 17, 2010
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This entry of "The Plainsmen" series covers several skirmishes between the cavalry and the southern plains tribes, with considerable coverage of the two battles that changed forever the Indian way of life. The book is a continuation of the previous story, which describes the effect of the buffalo hunters' poaching on the great buffalo herds that enraged the Indians who set out on the warpath against the hide men. The heroic battle of Adobe Walls is fully treated here, as is the fight at Palo Duro Canyon which effectively ended Indian resistance on the southern plains for all time. This seventh book by the author is among the best of his work about the history of the old west.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended, March 13, 2010
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Terry C. Johnston is one of the best authors I have come across in the past 50 years. I have read all his books and hope you will enjoy them as much as I did. Once you start reading - you can't stop with just one book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars so-so reading, April 5, 2000
This review is from: Dying Thunder: The Battle Of Adobe Walls & Palo Canyon, 1874 (Plainsmen) (Mass Market Paperback)
this book was a continuance of book 6 in the series and instead of focusing on seamus donegan much it spends more time with the Indians point of view. i didnt thing it was as gripping as the first six but it was still interesting. it also helps, in this series, to read the first books. it'll help with the figuring out of relationships between characters enormously.
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Already the Kiowa and Comanche were slaughtering their ponies to feed their starving families. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yellowleg soldiers, young buffalo hunter, white hide hunters, wagon corral, hide men, spotted buffalo, red bastards, buffalo ground, buffalo wallow, buffalo country, young shaman, earth lodges, warrior bands, war ponies, dozen warriors, buffalo soldiers, buffalo hunters
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Lone Wolf, Staked Plain, Billy Dixon, Dodge City, Stone Calf, Medicine Water, Camp Supply, Red River, Fort Sill, Red Otter, Seamus Donegan, Sharp Grover, Big Red Meat, Quanah Parker, Palo Duro, Reuben Waller, The Plainsmen Series, Charlie Myers, Fourth Cavalry, Samantha Pike, Jim Hanrahan, White Wolf, Kicking Bird, Spirit Above, Tenth Cavalry
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