Short cut to Red River
By: Noel M. Loomis
Publisher: Sagebrush
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Oxford]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780753189900
Description: Texas was savage - a land of wild rivers, killing storms - alive with Comanches whose barbarism was legend, and white men who'd kill a man for his boots. It took a man like Ross Phillips to tame Texas. Phillips rode north from Mexico at the head of a mighty wagon train laden with bullion worth a million. His aim - to rip from the very guts of the land a short-cut trail to Arkansas. Days swam into weeks and weeks into months, men died and mules dropped - and still Phillips lashed the train north. Waiting for him was Muke-war-rah, cruellest of all the Comanche chiefs, who held as hostage the woman to whom Ross Phillips owed his life.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: New York : Macmillan, 1958.