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Title: Red Cloud's Revenge: Showdown on the Northern Plains, 1867 (Plainsmen (Paperback)) by Terry C. Johnston ISBN: 0-312-92733-9 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: BIG BATTLES THAT DID NOT LAST LONG
Comment: THE PERSON WHO WROTE THE REVIEW JUST BEFORE ME HAS IT RIGHT ABOUT THE THOUSANDS OF WORDS NEEDED BY jOHNSTON NEEDS TO GET HIS POINT ACROSS. I DO LIKE HIS STORIES BUT I'M NOT A SPEED READER NOR DO I ALWAYS COMPREHEND EVERYTHING THE AUTHOR IS TRYING TO COMMUTE. THE TWO BATTLES IN THIS BOOK, "THE HAY FIELD FIGHT and THE WAGON BOX FIGHT " only lasted but just hours. I have read about these by other authors and they took only several pages and gave me just as much fact.
Rating: 1
Summary: All good things start out bad
Comment: At least that's the case with Terry C. Johnston's Plainsmen series. Red Cloud's Revenge was the second part of this long, ambitious series that had as a goal to depict in Johnston's rich fiction all the major campaigns against Native Americans on the western prairie after the Civil War. Focousing on the Bozeman Trail-war of 1867 and the climax that was reached in the Hay Field Fight and Wagonbox Fight. Johnston knows his frontier history, albeit I sense a lesser degree of historical fascination in these early volumes than in the last he wrote. One of his biggest faults here is his inclusion of the highly fictional character of a confederate renegade in the ranks of the Arapaho. Perhaps trying to make the reader easily understand that one should not cheer on the Indian part he makes them all even more one-dimensional than his protagonist, the irishman Seamus Donegan. Depicted as larger-than-life, despite that Johnston insists he is as normal as anyone of his readers, he is not easy to swallow in this book or in any of the first four books in this series. Too bad that Johnston had to write 1000 pages in this series before he made good and fascinating fiction out of still exciting history. Still, I recommend this series to anyone that can not get enough frontier history. It only gets better by each book. *(*) on the barometer.
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Title: Devil's Backbone (Plainsmen (Paperback)) by Terry Johnston ISBN: 0312925743 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Shadow Riders (Plainsmen (Paperback)) by Terry C. Johnston ISBN: 0312925972 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dying Thunder: The Fight at Adobe Walls and the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon-1874-1875 (Plainsmen (Paperback)) by Terry C. Johnston ISBN: 0312928343 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Sioux Dawn: The Fetterman Massacre, 1866 (Plainsmen (Paperback)) by Terry C. Johnston ISBN: 0312927320 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blood Song (Plainsmen (Paperback)) by Terry C. Johnston ISBN: 0312929218 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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