Ordeal at Blood River Author:James Warner Bellah James Warner Bellah, long known for his superb stores of the Civil War and the West, brings us a thundering tale of cavalry action on the Colorado--Blood River as the troops called it--in the days when a single troop of cavalry was expected to police several thousand square miles of hostile country. — That is why Lieutenant Cohill is the highest ... more »and only authority in a time and a territory of overwhelming odds. That is why the United States Cavalry regularly took on "the impossible." And did i.« less