Short Cut To Red River
By Noel Loomis
1958
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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.
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Noel Loomis
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Noel Miller Loomis was an editor, printer, newspaperman, teacher and writer of western, mystery and science-fiction, winner of the Spur Award in 1959, President of Western Writers of America between 1954 and 1955, Director of Writers Workshop between 1963 and 1969, member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Association of University Professors, American Historical Association and PEN International.
