Six-Time Spur Award Winner
Winner of the Western
Best Western Short Novel
It's 1902, and the West is changing, but Indian Territory can still be a lawless, violent place. Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves knows that all too well. For better than two decades, he has been patrolling this rugged territory, bringing to justice some of the frontier's worst outlaws.
Now, however, he faces his toughest assignment. He has an arrest warrant to bring in his own son, who has been accused of murder.Johnny D. Boggs brings the story of Oklahoma's legendary black lawman to life.
Booklist: "The story is compelling, with plenty of surprises and some adroit social commentary. A guaranteed winner for genre readers." Boggs wins Spurs for Legacy of a Lawman and West Texas Kill, and South by Southwest is a juvenile fiction finalist, in WWA's 2012 Spur Awards competition!
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Charles Favour - Santa Fe, NM
"When I taught American literature at the Univ. of Iowa, a colleague taught a 'Great Westerns' course devoted to novels. Vardis Fisher's MOUNTAIN MAN, Alan LeMay's THE SEARCHERS, A.B. Guthrie's THE BIG SKY. Charles Portis's TRUE GRIT. Clearly Westerns can be literature. I suspect that Johnny D. Boggs would be on the syllabus today." -- David Morrell, best-selling author of First Blood and The Brotherhood of the Rose
2012 Spur Award Winner:
Best Western Original Paperback Novel
Between the Pecos River and Rio Grande, a vast, harsh land was ruled by Texas Rangers Captain Hector Savage. Savage's motive wasn't duty, it was money. He has turned this desolate place into a bloodied, terrorized kingdom.
Now Rangers Sergeant Dave Chance has arrived with a prisoner -- Moses Albavera, a big-talking murderer in his own right -- shackled at his side. Chance can't stand idly by and let Savage and his gang of rogue Rangers run roughshod over the territory. He must turn his prisoner loose and give him a gun. Only their combined firepower can stop Savage's reign of terror ...
That is, providing Chance and Albavera don't kill each other first.
