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Also by Johnny D. Boggs:

Bloody Newton, July 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Longhorns East, September 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
A Thousand Texas Longhorns, October 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Northfield, November 2008
Mass Market Paperback
The Big Fifty, February 2004
Mass Market Paperback

THE BIG FIFTY
By: Johnny D. Boggs

Leisure Books
February 2004
On Sale: February 1, 2004
229 pages
ISBN: 0843953187
EAN: 9780843953183
Mass Market Paperback
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Western

The reality of frontier life in Kansas in 1872 becomes brutally clear to twelve-year-old Coady McIlvain when his father is scalped by hostile Indians and Coady is taken prisoner. Coady is determined to escape and does so, falling in with a buffalo sharpshooter named Dylan Griffith, whom he sees as the embodiment of his hero, Buffalo Bill Cody, a role in which the circumspect Griffith feels himself totally inadequate. The two face real adventure surviving the unforgiving terrain with Coady’s former captors on their trail and with outlaw Comancheros up ahead. In The Big Fifty—another name for the famous Sharps rifle—Johnny D. Boggs has created a gripping Western story balancing the myths and legends created by Eastern storytellers with the actual, often brutal realities of frontier life.