Spark On The Prairie: The Trial Of The Kiowa Chiefs [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Johnny D. Boggs (Author)

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Publication Date: December 17, 2004

A Guns and Gavel Novel

A Spur Award-winning Author
Winner of the Western Heritage Award for Best Western Novel of 2003

The citizens of Jack County, Texas, live in fear. Kiowa and Comanche warriors who refuse to adapt to reservation life are slaughtering settlers in brutal raids. Instead of unleashing the Army against the tribes, General William Tecumseh Sherman makes a monumental decision - to bring Kiowa chiefs Satanta and Big Tree to trial for the murder of seven cowboys.

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"Johnny D. Boggs is well on his way to being a major Western writer."
-- The Shootist (Doody Enterprises )

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Johnny D. Boggs is one of the few writers to win both the Western Heritage Wrangler Award and the Spur Award for his Western fiction. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 505 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press; 1 edition (December 17, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786271094
• ISBN-13: 978-0786271092
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,320,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One Really Terrific Western!!!, January 1, 2006

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This review is from: Spark on the Prairie (Mass Market Paperback)

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!