In The Best Tradition

About the Book

A ROUSING HISTORICAL WESTERN YARN.  THE SIOUX AND THE U,.S. CAVALRY MIX IT UP IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING THE CIVIL WAR.  A YOUNG COLONEL, WITH A COMMAND OF MIXED BLACK TROOPERS FROM THE 9TH AND 10TH CAVALRY AND SOME GALVANIZRED REBS AND OTHER WHITE TROOPERS, MUST FIGHT A YOUNG SIOUX CHIEF HE GREW UP WITH AND IS BLOOD BROTHER TO.  HE MUST ALSO STOP SOME GUN AND WHISKY RUNNERS, AVOID BEING KILLED BY A MAN HE HAD COURT-MARETIALED DURING THE WAR, DODGE AN OLD ROMANCE WITH THE WIFE OF A MAN HE NOW COMMANDS, AND WIN THE GENERAL’S DAUGHTER.  FILLED WITH HUNDREDS OF HISTORICAL FACTS, THIS IS ONE WORTH HAVING WHETHER YOU ARE JUST A WESTERN FAN OR A HISTORY BUFF.

About the Author

Born in east Texas, raised largely in New York City, Rick White spent some ten years living and writing abroad. He sold his first short story nearly fifty years ago, and has spent most of his life writing. He has owned and edited small town newspapers, regional magazines, a book publishing company and a very successful advertising agency in Florida and the Bahamas. Today he and his wife live in central Kentucky where he is busy on another novel about the Larkin family.