G Clifton Wisler: 5 books

Why, what in thunder is this? the colonel asked, turning to twelve-year-old Johnny Catlin. That is our drummer boy, and he is a daisy, the captain replied. The colonel didnt agree. This is no kindergarten. We aint running a nursery. Turning to Johny, he told the boy to go home. The war is no place for chickens that baint got their pinfeathers!

Eight years ago, forty-year-old Caulfield Blake was run out of the West Texas town of Simpson by a lynch mob. As sheriff, he’d been called on to carry out justice. But the War was ending and upholding the law was a tough kind of business. And when it meant hanging ‘Colonel’ Henry Simpson’s...

Pinto Lowery never wanted anything more than the chance to raise a family and find a piece of land he could call his own. But after fighting in the Civil War, he couldn’t settle, and instead drifted all over the West breaking mustangs, haunted by the ghosts of his fallen comrades. All that...

Mastincala, the Rabbit Boy, is born in a tumultuous and uncertain time for his people, the Lakota. He is but a boy when his father is killed during the clash between the Lakota and Colonel Harney’s army at Rosebud, and he vows to avenge his father’s death. Mastincala joins Crazy Horse and...

When his father dies and the family scatters, Erastus (‘Rat’) Hadley hires on as a hand to a local farmer. Rat is abused and tortured in his new home, but a depression is on and it’s a tough time for a young man to be on his own. When Rat’s loyal childhood friend Mitch Morris intervenes and...