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KINCH RILEYNewton, Kansas, 1871: One is a young drifter alone in a lawless land. The other is an aged gunfighter well-versed in the bawdy wonders of a wide-open boomtown. When these two lost souls come together one August night, and battle a band of Texas outlaws, the legend of Kinch Riley will be born….
INDIAN TERRITORYWhen hired gun John Ryan heads into Indian Territory with a brawling crew of railroad workers, a battle of bloodshed and treachery ensues. But when he later meets the proud Cherokees–and the beautiful daughter of and embattled chief–Ryan sees for himself how his employer’s steel rails are splitting the heart of a people’s last home. Can his conscience keep him from pulling the trigger?
INDIAN TERRITORYWhen hired gun John Ryan heads into Indian Territory with a brawling crew of railroad workers, a battle of bloodshed and treachery ensues. But when he later meets the proud Cherokees–and the beautiful daughter of and embattled chief–Ryan sees for himself how his employer’s steel rails are splitting the heart of a people’s last home. Can his conscience keep him from pulling the trigger?
MATT BRAUN is a fourth generation Westerner, steeped in the tradition and lore of the frontier era. His books reflect a heritage rich with the truths of that bygone time. Raised among the Cherokee and Osage tribes, Braun learned their traditions and culture, and their philosophy became the foundation of his own beliefs. Like his ancestors, he has spent most of his life wandering the mountains and plains of the West. His heritage and his contribution to Western literature resulted in his appointment by the Governor of Oklahoma as a Territorial Marshal.
Braun is the author of forty-seven novels and four nonfiction works, including Black Fox, which was made into a CBS miniseries. Western Writers of America awarded Braun the prestigious Spur Award for his novel The Kincaids and the 2004 Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement in Western Literature.
Braun is the author of forty-seven novels and four nonfiction works, including Black Fox, which was made into a CBS miniseries. Western Writers of America awarded Braun the prestigious Spur Award for his novel The Kincaids and the 2004 Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement in Western Literature.
“A master storyteller.”–Elmer Kelton
“Matt Braun is head and shoulders above all the rest who would attempt to bring the gunmen of the Old West to life.”
–Terry C. Johnston, author of The Plainsmen series
“Braun tackles the big men, the complex personalities of those brave few who were pivotal figures in the settling of an untamed frontier.”
— Jory Sherman, author of Grass Kingdom
“Matt Braun is one of the best!”
— Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series
“Matt Braun has a genius for taking real characters out of the Old West and giving them flesh-and-blood immediacy.”
— Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
“Braun blends historical fact and ingenious fiction…A top-drawer Western novelist!”
— Robert L. Gale, Western Biographer
The Old West comes vividly to life in two novels from bestselling author Matt Braun–America’s authentic voice of the Western Frontier KINCH RILEYNewton, Kansas, 1871: One is a young drifter alone in a lawless land. The other is an aged gunfighter well-versed in the bawdy wonders of a wide-open boomtown. When these two lost souls come together one August night, and battle a band of Texas outlaws, the legend of Kinch Riley will be born….
INDIAN TERRITORYWhen hired gun John Ryan heads into Indian Territory with a brawling crew of railroad workers, a battle of bloodshed and treachery ensues. But when he later meets the proud Cherokees–and the beautiful daughter of and embattled chief–Ryan sees for himself how his employer’s steel rails are splitting the heart of a people’s last home. Can his conscience keep him from pulling the trigger?
“A master storyteller.”–Elmer Kelton
“MATT BRAUN IS ONE OF THE BEST!” INDIAN TERRITORYWhen hired gun John Ryan heads into Indian Territory with a brawling crew of railroad workers, a battle of bloodshed and treachery ensues. But when he later meets the proud Cherokees–and the beautiful daughter of and embattled chief–Ryan sees for himself how his employer’s steel rails are splitting the heart of a people’s last home. Can his conscience keep him from pulling the trigger?
“A master storyteller.”–Elmer Kelton
Kinch Riley / Indian TerritoryKINCH RILEYDEATH SHOTMcCluskie’s knees buckled and he was suddenly gripped with the urgency of killing Anderson … He heard the gunfire and the terrified shrieks of dance-hall girls, sensed the crowd scattering. But it was all somehow distant, even a little unreal. Blinded, falling swiftly into darkness, he willed his hand to move. To finish what he had come here to do.
Another bullet smacked him in the ribs, but like a dead snake, operating on nerves alone, his hand reacted and came up with the Colt. That he couldn’t see Anderson bothered him not at all. In his mind’s eye he remembered exactly where the Texan was standing, and even as he pressed the trigger, he knew the shot had struck home …—Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series
TELLS IT WELL.”
—Jory Sherman, author of Grass KingdomONE