The Killing Trail: A Killstraight Story

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Boggs is among the best Western writers at work today. He writes with depth, flavor, and color. Booklist

Boggs' narrative voice captures the old-fashioned style of the past.Publishers Weekly

After visiting his late mother's people on the Mescalero reservation, Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight waits to catch a train home when local cowboys bring disturbing news: an Chiricahua Apache has brutally murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Demingand a bunch of locals plan on lynching him.

Killstraight has no jurisdiction in this territory. He knows nothing about Deming, the murdered girl, or the accused killer; and he doesn't really care much for Apaches anyway. Yet, still heartbroken over the death of his beloved Rain Shower, he is in no hurry to return home. So he hops on a train to Deming to help a fellow Indian.

However, once he arrives Killstraight learns that the man in jail isnt really an Apache. Francis Groves, is a brooding, embittered, binge-drinking white man who had lived with the Chiricahuas and was known as "Walking Man." He had once been an excellent tracker who scouted and interpreted for the Army during the last of the Apache wars, but has had nothing to live for sinceh is wife and daughter were murdered by Mexican scalp hunters. Killstraight sets out to prove Groves innocentin a town that hates Indians and where he has few allies and many enemiesall the while with this thought in the back of his mind: What if Groves is really guilty

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Boggs is among the best Western writers at work today. He writes with depth, flavor, and color. Booklist

Boggs' narrative voice captures the old-fashioned style of the past.Publishers Weekly
Boggs is among the best Western writers at work today. He writes with depth, flavor, and color. Booklist

Boggs' narrative voice captures the old-fashioned style of the past.Publishers Weekly

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Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, shot rapids in a canoe, hiked across mountains and deserts, and traipsed around ghost townsall in the name of finding a good story. He has won the Spur Award from Western Writers of America six times, as well as the Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. He lives with his family in Santa Fe, New Mexico.