[The Dragoons 01] • Buffalo War

After a long and bloody campaign against Chief War Heart's fierce tribe, Major Matt Devlin and his US Dragoons have finally reached a truce. But the hard-won peace of the vast Dakota Territory was suddenly threatened when a vicious new enemy invaded the wild prairie. With their Sharps .50-caliber rifles spitting hot lead, Ned Wheatfall and his hide-hungry buffalo hunters stampeded the reservation, killing bison and stirring up storm clouds of war. Now Devlin and his Dragoons had to move fast to stop the senseless slaughter and prevent a savage uprising that could once again soak the sacred lands in blood!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"My mother's family the Terrals and Kennedys (Scot Presbyterians) fought for the south in the Civil War and went to the Indian and Oklahoma Territories to escape the oppression of Northern "reconstruction" of the southern states. They became cattle ranchers. The town of Terral, Oklahoma is named after my great-grandfather. My father's family were farmers who served in the Union Army in a Pennsylvania regiment. They moved into the area to get free land as per the homestead act."

Patrick E. Andrews was born in Oklahoma in 1936 into a family of pioneers who participated in its growth from the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory to statehood. His father's family were homesteaders and his mother's cattle ranchers. Consequently, he is among the last generation of American writers who had contacts with those people from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Patrick's wife Julie says he both speaks and writes with an Oklahoma accent. He is an ex-paratrooper, having served in the 82nd Airborne Division in the active army and the 12th Special Forces Group in the army reserves. Patrick began his writing career after leaving the army. He and his better half presently reside in southern California. He has a son Bill, who is an ex-paratrooper and a probation officer, and two grandchildren.