Judd Cole

"What should I do?" Touch the Sky asked Arrow Keeper. "I am a Shaiyena. But my white parents are the soul of my medicine bag. How can I let these things happen?""Do you realize what the rest will say if you desert your tribe now? And, little brother, have you considered Honey Eater? She loves you. But Black Elk loves her. When her father dies, she will need you more than ever. She will be alone. A Cheyenne who is alone is a dead Cheyenne. Do you go to help the whites who raised you, knowing it may turn your tribe against you forever and cost you Honey Eater?" Arrow Keeper asked. "Or do you stay?"

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Published: 2006

Point Rider (A Wild Bill Western Book 7)

The U.S. Army needed help. Someone seemed intent on driving the Sioux off their reservation. Someone was slaughtering their animals and poisoning their water. Were these the acts of renegades, like some thought, or something far worse? Whoever was responsible, the army knew it wouldn't be long before the Sioux fought back and left the reservation for the war path. The army also knew there was only one man who could restore peace before all hell broke loose—Wild Bill Hickok. Bill had to ride point on a dangerous trail drive to bring cattle to the reservation before the simmering Sioux were pushed too far. But this was no ordinary cattle drive—it was a trip through pure hell, with enemies on every side.

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Published: 1998

Arrow Keeper

Judd Cole

A Cheyenne Indian raised among pioneers on the Wyoming frontier, Matthew Hanchon had never known anything but fear and distrust.For the settlers had branded him a savage-a beast they would despise until they gunned him down. And when Matthew realzed that his adopted parents would suffer for their love of him, he fled into the wilderness, seeking the people whose blood he shared.But the youth soon found that the Cheyenne hated him as much as the whites.Matthew would need a frontiers-man's cunning and grit and a warrior's courage, strength, and skill, or he would never survive.This is a story of one man's heroic search for a world he could call his own.

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Published: 2010

Comanche Raid (A Cheyenne Western--Book Six)

Judd Cole

Touch the Sky knew nothing of his people's enemies when he returned to the life of the Cheyenne. But during his first buffalo hunt a band of Comanche attacked the tribe. Soon the silence of the prairie was shattered by the cries of the wounded and dying. Touch the Sky and his brother warriors had to fend off the vicious war party—or they would be slaughtered like the mighty beasts of the plains.

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Published: 1993

Comancheros (A Cheyenne Western. Book 7)

Judd Cole

Raised among frontier settlers, Touch the Sky never feared losing his freedom. But to his people, the threat of being sold into bondage was very real. And when a notorious Spanish slave trader captured the women and children, Touch the Sky and his brother warriors swore to save them. It was a race against time, and if the Cheyenne were too late, their glorious past would face into a hopeless future.

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Published: 1991

War Party (Cheyenne Western Book 8)

Judd Cole

From the day Touch the Sky returned to his tribe, blue-coats, desperadoes, and rival Indians fought for his scalp. The strong brave had little to protect himself besides a few bold allies, his skill as a warrior, and the cunning he had learned from the white man. He'd need all the trickery and daring he could muster when an old foe devised a diabolical plot to crush the Cheyennes' dreams into the dirt.

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Published: 1998

Pathfinder (A Cheyenne Western Book 9)

Judd Cole

An Indian raised in the white man's world, Touch the Sky never forgot the kindness of the settlers, and tried to help them whenever possible. But an old friend's request to negotiate a treaty between the Cheyenne and gold miners brought the young brave face to face with a cunning warrior. If Touch the Sky couldn't defeat his new enemy, the territory would never again be safe for pioneers!

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Published: 1996

Bleeding Kansas

Judd Cole

Even among the toughest hardcases in the West, Abilene, Kansas, was known as pure hell on earth, a wide-open wild town that was reined in only briefly—when Wild Bill Hickok was its sheriff. Ever since he rode out of Abilene, Wild Bill had never wanted to go back. But now he had to. A lot of people were dying fast there. The Kansas Pacific Railroad was laying track where somebody obviously didn't want it, and bullets were flying thick and furious. The Pinkerton Agency needed their best operative to get to the bottom of it and that meant only one man—Wild Bill. But as hard as it was for Wild Bill to go back, he knew there was a bigger challenge ahead of him—staying alive once he got there.

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Published: 2005

Dead Man's Hand

Judd Cole

Marshal, gunfighter, stage driver, and scout, Wild Bill Hickok had a legend as big and untamed as the West itself. No man was as good with a gun as Wild Bill, and few men used one as often. From Abilene to Deadwood, his name was known by all—and feared by many. That's why he was hired by Allan Pinkerton's new detective agency to protect an eccentric inventor on a train ride through the worst badlands of the West. With hired thugs out to kill him and angry Sioux out for his scalp, Bill knew he had his work cut out for him. But even if he survived that, he had a still worse danger to face—a jealous Calamity Jane.

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Published: 2010

Death Chant

Judd Cole

When Matthew Hanchon returned to the Cheyenne people after being raised by settlers, he did not find the acceptance he sought. For the Cheyenne could not fully trust anyone raised in the ways of the white man. Forced to prove his loyalty, Matthew faced the greatest challenge he had ever known. And when the death chant arose, he knew if he failed he would not die alone.

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Published: 1998

Gun Law (A Wild Bill Western Book 8)

Judd Cole

Leland Langford, owner of the Overland Stage and Freighting Company, had a dangerous but essential job, and he knew there was only one man for it—the legendary Wild Bill Hickok. Leland knew that only Wild Bill could ensure that an important gold shipment travel safely by stage from the Black Hills to the U.S. Mint in Denver. With Wild Bill as the driver, the stage had to make it through. But there was an even more important part of Bill's mission. Bill had to break up one of the cleverest and most vicious gangs ever to terrorize the west, and send one message loud and clear—steal gold from the U.S. Treasury and you'll face the harshest law in the west ... gun law!

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Published: 1999

The Kincaid County War

Judd Cole

Wild Bill Hickok was a legend in his own lifetime. Wherever he went his reputation with a gun preceded him—along with an open bounty for ten thousand dollars for his arrest. But Wild Bill was working for the law when he went to Kinkaid County, Wyoming. Hundreds of prime longhorn cattle had been poisoned, and Bill was sent by the Pinkerton Agency to get to the bottom of it. He didn't expect to land smack dab in the middle of an all-out range war, but that's exactly what happened. With the powerful Cattleman's Association on one side and land-grant settlers on the other, Wild Bill knew that before this was over he'd be testing his gun skills to the limit if he hoped to get out alive.

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Published: 1991

Santa Fe Death Trap

Judd Cole

All Wild Bill wanted as he set out for Santa Fe was a place to lay low for a while, to get away from the fame and notoriety that followed him wherever he went. But fame wasn't the only thing that stuck to Wild Bill like glue. He'd made a lot of enemies over the years. And one of them, Frank Tutt, had waited a good long time to taste sweet revenge. He knew Wild Bill was on his way to Santa Fe and he was ready for him ... ready and eager to make him pay. But he was in no hurry. After all these years he could wait a bit longer, long enough to play a little game with his legendary target. Oh, he would kill Wild Bill, all right—but first he wanted Bill to know what it was like to live in Hell.

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Published: 2012

Blood on the Plains (A Cheyenne Western Book 5)

Judd Cole

A Cheyenne youth who had spent his whole life among frontier pioneers, Touch the Sky was hated and feared when he returned to his tribe. But suddenly Touch the Sky's life was in greater peril than ever. For greedy land-grabbers wanted to swindle his people out of their hunting grounds, and they would soak the plains with the blood of many warriors if Touch the Sky couldn't stop them.

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Published: 2010

Black Hills Hellhole (A Wild Bill Western Book 6)

Judd Cole

Deadwood, South Dakota, held a place in the pantheon of frontier hellholes. Even to a man like Wild Bill Hickok, it was the toughest town in the west, a town where only the strongest and most daring could survive. But that's exactly where Bill had to go, whether he liked it or not. He was sent there by the Pinkerton Agency to investigate reports of stealing at a particularly dangerous mine—dangerous even by Deadwood standards. The mine was guarded by Regulators, vicious hard cases who made sure no one interfered with their plans. Three Pinkerton men had already been killed when Bill went up against the Regulators—and he was determined not to be the fourth!

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Published: 1994