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Spark on the Prairie

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I've been a big fan of the writing of Johnny Boggs for some time now....and I've never been disappointed in any of his excellent Westerns.
I am an established garden writer (author of Allergy-free Gardening, etc.) and I started writing Westerns last year. I first wrote to a good number of long established Western writers and asked them for their advice. A number of them suggested I read the works of Johnny Boggs, saying that in their opinion, he was easily one of the very best of the new Western writers.

And they were quite right, too. Bogg's pays close attention to detail; his work always has that authentic flavor of the time. You feel like you're there; you can smell the buffalo chip fire smoking, can hear the screams of the charging Indians, can feel the fear of the cowboys and buffalo hunters.

Spark on the Prairie is about the real life trial of the Kiowa Chiefs. As such it is a richly told piece of American History...and Boggs tells the story perfectly. We the readers get to know the judge, the jury, the Kiowa Chiefs, the prosecutor and the defending lawyer. I read this book recently on a long plane ride from the east coast to the west. It was the perfect book for a long ride, interesting, intelligent, and often exciting. Very highly recommended!