Attempted murder is the beginning chapter of this western tale spun by Johnny D. Boggs. Deputy U.S. Marshal Reilly McGilvern is transporting outlaws to the Yuma prison. The prison wagon is attacked on the way by outlaws. Wanting to free a specific prisoner, three guards die in a hail of bullets poured in an ambush. [...]
Tag Archives: Johnny D. Boggs
Book Review: South by Southwest
October 26, 2011 – 1:11 am
This western story begins in the Civil War and travels into the time shortly after the surrender of Lee at a courthouse in northern Virginia. The only way to get out of the prisoner of war stockade in Florence was to die. Men were dieing right and left with out food and shelter the cemetery [...]
Book Review: Hard Winter
May 18, 2011 – 1:11 am
This western story is about a man and his telling of the hardest winter ever. The story is told from the remembrances of Jim Hawkins to his grandson Henry Lancaster. Johnny D. Boggs tells the story about a boy who came to Montana and suffered through the winter of 1886 and into the spring of [...]
Book Review: Killstraight
May 4, 2011 – 1:11 am
This western story is about a young Indian man who was spirited off to a vocational school in Pennsylvania many miles from his family and people. The story begins as the young man, Daniel Killstraight, returns to the area and is spirited off to a hanging in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. This hanging of three men [...]
Book Review: Soldiers Farewell
January 6, 2010 – 1:10 am
This western story is written by Johnny D. Boggs who has won a spur award for one of his western stories. This story was interesting but I had a hard time getting involved while reading it. The style that it was written, made it hard to get into the flow of the story. The author [...]
Book Review: The Hart Brand
December 23, 2009 – 1:09 am
This western story is written by Johnny D. Boggs a spur award – winning author. The story is set in the New Mexico Territory beginning in the fourteenth year of young Caleb Hart. He would be sent by his parents over twelve hundred miles to work for his uncle, Captain Frank Hart, on his ranch. [...]
