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The killing trail : a Killstraight story [text (large print)] / Johnny D. Boggs.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Boggs, Johnny D. Killstraight ; 5.Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2019Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Center Point Large Print editionDescription: 302 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781643581378
  • 1643581376
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3552.O4375 K545 2019
Summary: "When Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight hears an Apache has murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and the locals want to lynch him, Daniel rushes to help a fellow Indian. Although he has no jurisdiction there, Killstraight sets out to prove the wrong man has been accused in this town that hates Indians"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Davis (Central) Library Large Print Large Print BOGG Available T00808167
Large Print Davis (Central) Library Large Print Large Print BOGG Checked out 09/04/2024 T00808168
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 to southern New Mexico Territory: a Chiricahua Apache has brutally murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming -- and a bunch of locals plan on lynching the Indian. Killstraight has no jurisdiction in this territory. He doesn't really care much for Apaches anyway. He knows nothing about Deming, the murdered girl, or the accused killer. Yet, still heart-broken over the death of his beloved Rain Shower, he is in no hurry to return home. So he hops a train for Deming to help a fellow Indian.

Regular print edition first published by Five Star in 2014.

"When Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight hears an Apache has murdered a teenage girl in the railroad town of Deming and the locals want to lynch him, Daniel rushes to help a fellow Indian. Although he has no jurisdiction there, Killstraight sets out to prove the wrong man has been accused in this town that hates Indians"-- Provided by publisher.

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Booklist Review

Veteran, award-winning western writer Boggs follows the tricky crime-solving mission of Comanche tribal policeman Daniel Killstraight in his effort to forget the recent murder of a woman close to him. Needing to clear his mind, Killstraight decides to venture from the Indian Territory, where his law enforcement bona fides protect him, down to New Mexico Territory, where he has no jurisdiction. In the town of Deming, an Apache is being held for the murder of a teenage girl, and Killstraight succumbs to the pull of needing to learn for himself the actual details. So he travels there, ostensibly to prove the Indian suspect's innocence. Killstraight knows that a lynching party is also heading to Deming, betting that the Deming jail can be easily compromised, and the Apache extricated. Once in town, though, Killstraight realizes that the man behind bars is no Indian but a white man, and now Killstraight is bent on gathering a complete picture of this person to understand the true circumstances of the crime. The various plot threads are all nicely drawn together in a tight, satisfying read.--Hooper, Brad Copyright 2010 Booklist

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