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Pony Soldiers
Series · 11 books · 1988-2015

Books in series

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#1

Slaughter at Buffalo Creek

2014

Captain Colt Harding, grief-stricken and hungry for revenge, sets out to destroy White Eagle, the Indian who killed his wife and son. White Eagle roams the land raping, pillaging, and murdering, showing no mercy. Captain Harding takes it upon himself to see that this savage be fed to the scavengers. Only with the help of Pony Soldiers, some of the vilest people in existence, will Captain Harding be able to avenge the deaths of his wife and son and rescue his daughter from a life of servitude.
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#2

Comanche Massacre

2014

They killed for a living and died for a price. The Comanches had been pushed too far by the government in Washington, driven to anger by the whiskey traders and formed into a deadly fighting force by the cold blooded gun runners. THE PONY SOLDIERS were a dirty undisciplined rabble, but they were the only chance a thousand settlers had to see another sunrise. They were an unyielding rock in a sea of bloodshed, determined to fight to the last- each man swearing to kill ten Comanches before he died.
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#3

Comanche Moon

2014

When White Eagle kidnapped Major Harding's daughter, he signed his own death warrant. Every day he held the little girl in harsh slavery it brought him closer to the hour of his execution. For White Eagle was not up against an ordinary troop of cavalry, he was being hunted by remorseless men who lived only to kill, relentless men who would rather die than turn back. There was nowhere on earth White Eagle could run, nowhere he could hide from the brutal revenge of the...PONY SOLDIERS. The Comanche are fighting for their very existence...and the Pony Soldiers have to be in their gunsights if they are to survive. It's a battle of cavalry company against tribe, man against man, of the very survival of both. And their's blood on the moon, and soaking the prairie. Don't miss this exciting action adventure novel from America's premiere western author, Chet Cunningham.
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#4

Cheyenne Blood Storm

2014

The Cheyenne are running wild and no settler or sodbuster is safe. The Pony Soldiers must beat a trail into trouble if there is ever to be peace in the land, and blood must spill...the question is, whose? Another wild and wooly action adventure western from America's premier western writer, Chet Cunningham.
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#5

Sioux Showdown

1988

Seeking gold, the new white settlers block all Indian access to the Bozeman Trail; they are determined to kill any Indian who comes anywhere near the trail that leads to the gold fields. Red Cloud is not afraid. A Sioux leader, he moves toward the Bozeman Trail, determined to take back the gold fields for his people. A fierce fighter, Red Cloud is ready to stand up to anyone and anything. The settlers primary concern is no longer gold, but escaping death. The Pony Soldiers, their only hope, have the task of crushing an ensuing Sioux attack.
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#6

Sioux Slaughter

1988

With inhuman strength fueled by a fierce hatred of the white man, Running Bear's tribe began a bloody campaign to massacre every settler living near Fort Hays. Scalping, looting, and raping, they would not stop until every man, woman, and child had been tortured and brutally killed. Colt Harding was the unchallenged leader of the Army's tough bunch of misfits-the Lightning Troop. Harding and his men fought fire with fire, and demanded an eye for an eye, a death for a death. Fearless and proud, they would die before letting the Sioux warriors live to boast of their victories.
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#7

Boots and Saddles

2014

Clever and more cunning than any redskin, stronger and meaner than any white man, Colonel Colt Harding was called in to clean up Fort Wallace, Kansas, where a secret brotherhood of officers was torturing and killing soldiers who didn't cotton to their poisoned politics. The colonel had to move fast, because bloodthirsty tribes of Sioux and Cheyenne were surrounding the fort on nearby Breecher's Island, and only Harding and his Lightning Troop could stop them. Remorseless men who lived to kill, Harding's misfits sneered in the face of danger, for no one had yet survived an all-out attack by the Pony Soldiers.
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#8

Renegade Army

2014

Not content with bilking the tribes and the U. S. government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Saterlee recruited a ruthless, blood thirsty band of renegades to terrorize the territory. He was an Indian Agent hated by men of all colors, a burr in the tail of the... Outgunned and outmanned, but never outfought, Col. Colt Harding's Lightning Troop charged straight into the mouth of hell, determined to put Saterlee out of business and exterminate his private army of killers. They Were to fierce to live, too mean to die.
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#9

Battle Cry

2014

The Cheyenne are as tough and mean as they come, and the Pony Soldiers know what they're up against. Get captured and you may just be skinned alive, and what they'll do to your women folk can't be spoken about. This time the Pony Soldiers will ride into hell, and some won't ride out. Another great action adventure by America's premier western writer, Chet Cunningham.
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#10

Fort Blood

2014

it was late summer in southern Wyoming, but for Two Dogs Cheyenne tribe it was killing season; the season for murdering the white man. Stealing his cattle and taking his women for slaves before the long, cold winter set in. For years Two Dogs had attacked the helpless White Eyes without fear, but his merciless warriors had yet to face the Pony Soldiers! Led by Colonel Colt Harding, these were the deadliest misfits in the army, the die hard C Troop, thirsty for revenge. Each Pony Soldier was more than a match for the savages and each had vowed that no Cheyenne would live to see that winter.
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#11

Kansas Bloodbath

2015

Lt. Col. Colt Harding and his Lightning Troop come to a small ranch under attack by by Indians so the troop rides in and fights them driving them away. The troop is on its way from eastern Colorado to the middle of Kansas to help to put down a bloody rebellion by the whole Sioux nation. An estimated l,500 Sioux were butchering men, women and children on ranches stages, and small towns. The Lightning Troop is committed to ride in and take the fight to the Sioux.

Author

Chet Cunningham
Chet Cunningham
Author · 46 books

aka Jess Cody, Cathy Cunningham, Lionel Derrick (with Mark Roberts 2), Keith Douglass (with William H Keith), J.D. Bondie, Chad Calhoun, G.A. Carrington, Kit Dalton, Dirk Fletcher, Don Pendleton Since his first novel was published in 1968 Chet Cunningham has written and had published nearly 300 works of fiction and 15 non fiction books. He is equally adept on horseback, in the techno-thriller arena, or recounting military history. His output includes 125 westerns and 50 men's action/adventure novels.

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