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    Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West
    Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West
    Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West
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    Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West

    Written by Jeff Guinn

    Narrated by David Carpenter

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    New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Gunfight Jeff Guinn once again brings the Old West to life in the grand follow-up to Glorious. After barely escaping nemesis Killer Boots in the tiny Arizona Territory town of Glorious, Cash McLendon is in desperate need of a safe haven somewhere-anywhere-on the frontier. Fleeing to Dodge City, he falls in with an intrepid band of buffalo hunters determined to head south to forbidden Indian Territory in the Texas Panhandle. In the company of such colorful Western legends as Bat Masterson and Billy Dixon, Cash helps establish a hunting camp known as Adobe Walls. When a massive migration of buffalo arrives, Cash, newly hopeful that he may yet patch things up with Gabrielle Tirrito back in Arizona, thinks his luck has finally changed. But no good can come of entering the prohibited lands they've crossed into. Little do Cash and his fellows know that their camp is targeted by a new coalition of the finest warriors among the Comanche, Cheyenne, and Kiowa. Led by fierce Comanche war chief Quanah and eerie tribal mystic Isatai, an enormous force of two thousand is about to descend on the camp and will mark one of the fiercest, bloodiest battles in frontier history. Cash McLendon is in another fight for his life-and this time running is not an option.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 6, 2015
    ISBN9781490673943
    Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West
    Author

    Jeff Guinn

    Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of numerous books, including Go Down Together, The Last Gunfight, Manson, The Road to Jonestown, War on the Border, and Waco. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, and is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame.

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    • 4/5
      Buffalo Trail by Jeff Guinn is a continuation of the western trilogy about Cash McLendon, who has now moved on to Dodge City, Kansas after escaping the hired killer on his trail in the first book, Glorious. His plan is to find work in Dodge and save money to start a new life in California. He meets up with an old acquaintance from Arizona and finds out that Gabrielle, the love of his life, is still unmarried and he begins a correspondence with her that leads to his planning to return to Arizona and hopefully claim her as his wife before they travel on to California.There isn’t a lot of money to be had in Dodge, but it is the gathering ground for the Buffalo hunters who, disobeying the government, intend to cross into Indian territory to hunt. A huge party is being made up and eventually Cash joins as this could be a way of making a good deal of money very quickly. Meanwhile Comanche war leader, Quanah Parker is gathering the Plains Indians with plans to attack the Buffalo hunters and wipe them from the face of the earth. Other than Cash McLendon, most of the characters in this book did exist and the battle of Adobe Walls, that the author vividly recreates, did happen as described. Once again this author brings a part of American history to life in this colorful, entertaining and memorable story. Personally, I found Buffalo Trail to be an excellent bridge that is leading towards the final book in this exciting trilogy.
    • 5/5
      FictionJeff GuinnBuffalo Trail: A Novel of the American WestG.P. Putnam’s SonsHardcover, 978-0-399-16542-9 (also available as ebook and audiobook), 432 pgs., $27.00October 6, 2015 The follow-up to Glorious, a New York Times best-seller, Buffalo Trail is author and investigative journalist Jeff Guinn’s second volume in his American West trilogy. Cash McClendon has departed Arizona Territory in a hurry and washed up in Dodge City, keeping company with Bat Masterson and Billy Dixon, learning the trade of the “hidemen” who follow the great buffalo herds, trying to earn enough money to get back to Gabrielle, his lady-love, whom we’ve met in Glorious. The buffalo have been hunted out of existence in Kansas, so Dixon is putting together a large hunting party to follow the herds into Indian Territory. Simultaneously, Quanah Parker of the Comanche is attempting to put together a massive war party, including the Cheyenne and Kiowa, to convince the white men to stay on their side of the line. When these two groups collide in the Texas panhandle, it will be known historically as the Second Battle of Adobe Walls. Guinn surrounds Cash McClendon with historical characters and inserts him into historical events. His characters are complex — no stereotypes, no romanticizing. As the narrative moves between the hidemen and Quanah Parker’s camp, I was struck by their similarities: each wanted respect, to be left alone, and to follow their trades and traditions. Billy Dixon and Quanah Parker are counterparts, both skilled politicians and gifted, persuasive leaders with the same idea: safety and success in numbers. They deal with the same issues: undisciplined members of their respective parties, boredom, and greed. But they failed to see their commonalities and refused to acknowledge each other’s humanity. In another departure from the genre, Guinn’s West is funny. McClendon and Masterson hunting buffalo: “Will you shut up and let me shoot?”“Well, shoot, then,” Masterson urged. “We got to keep moving if we’re going to be in Dodge by dark.”“I know. I’m just waiting for this cow to turn her side more toward me.”“Piss on a buffalo that won’t cooperate with its own demise,” Masterson muttered. His descriptive skill creates powerful images. There, dark against the gold and green grass, was a vast brown cloud moving slowly but steadily west. It took a moment for McClendon to see that the heaving mass was composed of individual animals, all packed tightly together. The rumbling sound was a cacophony of mingled bleats, grunts, and bellows. There was seemingly no end to it — the great moving wave extended as far back toward the east as McClendon could see, over a dozen hills or more and still pouring over the horizon. Guinn mercilessly stretches tension like piano wire the day before the battle. Then: The early moments of dawn provided a pinkish tinge in the sky to the east. It was finally time. Quanah raised his arm and shook his lance above his head. He led the way as they splashed across the creek, and the first exultant war cries echoed across the valley. And: McClendon hesitated, mesmerized by what was approaching so fast — what looked like an expanding line separating into tightly packed but individual parts, and, yes, those parts were Indians, many, many Indians, all of them painted and feather-bedecked and screaming and waving weapons, rifles of every variety as well as spears. McClendon would not have imagined that spears could look so menacing. He found himself trying to count the Indians – one, two, three, four – and then came the horrifying sense that he might not know a number high enough. The battle stretches a full fifty chilling, riveting pages. Western historical fiction has rarely been as entertaining and satisfying, as well as smart and human.Originally published in Lone Star Literary Life.