Slaughter Author:Elmer Kelton From one of the West's greatest storytellers, winner of the Saddleman and the Western Heritage awards, comes Elmer Kelton's stirring, Spur Award-winning novel of the violent clash between two warring ways of life on the fabled Staked Plain of West Texas. — Crow Feather left a trail of blood and fire from Texas to Mexico. Now his Comanche tribe ru... more »les the southern plains. But the People depend on the buffalo for their very survival, and the great herds are fast disappearing - prey to the white man's long guns. If the white man cannot be kept away, the Comanches will vanish from their ancestral lands.
Then south from Dodge City comes a party of desperate hide hunters seeking the dwindling herds of shaggy beasts. Led by fugitive Confederate veteran Jeff Layne, they include a cynical Yankee colonel, a gambling Englishman, and a pretty red-haired woman as tough and wild as the land itself. Refusing to be turned back by man or nature, they are heading toward an epic struggle for survival - and a rendezvous with destiny.« less