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Trying to prove his innocence after his most hated enemy is killed and he is named the prime suspect, Cheyenne warrior Touch the Sky faces the wrath of his entire tribe and the hatred of the woman he loves. Original.
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ENEMY FIRE
Wolf Who Hunts Smiling's Colt spat muzzle smoke. Touch the Sky watched as the lead freighter yelled and then sprawled in an ungainly heap in the middle of the road.
The freighters behind him had broken out their long guns and covered down when the attack commenced. Now Touch the Sky saw all of them excitedly point in his direction. The next moment slugs started buzzing past Touch the Sky's ear with an angry-hornet sound, forcing him to retreat. Clearly, they assumed he was one of the attackers.
Just as clear was the blood-soaked hair of the bullwhacker who lay sprawled in the road. Wolf Who Hunts Smiling's last shot had been fatal.
"You murdering, savage bastard!" one of the freighters shouted behind Touch the Sky. "Put at 'em, boys!"
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The Cheyenne Series: # 1: ARROW KEEPER # 2: DEATH CHANT # 3: RENEGADE JUSTICE # 4: VISION QUEST # 5: BLOOD ON THE PLAINS # 6: COMANCHE RAID # 7: COMANCHEROS # 8: WAR PARTY # 9: PATHFINDER #10: BUFFALO HIDERS #11: SPIRIT PATH #12: MANKILLER #13: WENDIGO MOUNTAIN #14: DEATH CAMP
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Cheyenne Giant Special Edition! Blood on the Arrows
Judd Cole
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A LEISURE BOOK
September 1995
Published by
Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc. 276 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10001
If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this "stripped book."
Copyright 1995 by Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law.
The name "Leisure Books" and the stylized "L" with design are trademarks of Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Printed in the United States of America.
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Prologue
The tall warrior named Touch the Sky had earned more coup feathers than any other brave in his Northern Cheyenne tribe. But his bloody struggles to protect his people could not defeat the many tribal enemies who constantly demanded his death, accusing him of spying for blue-bloused soldiers.
The ill-fated brave's tragedy began in the year the white man's winter-count called 1840. A U.S. Cavalry ambush killed the great Cheyenne peace chief Running Antelope and his wife Lotus Petal. Only one Cheyenne survived the Platte River massacre: Running Antelope's newborn son.
Pawnee scouts were about to brain the infant against a tree when the lieutenant in charge stopped them. The baby was taken back to the
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river-bend settlement of Bighorn Falls near Fort Bates in the Wyoming Territory. There he grew up the adopted son of John and Sarah Hanchon, owners of the town's mercantile store.
The Hanchons named him Matthew and loved him as their own blood. The first sixteen years of his life were happy ones. Early on he went to work for his parents, stocking shelves and delivering goods to the outlying settlers. Though some local whites hated this full-blooded Indian in their midst, many others eventually accepted and even befriended him.
Then his life's path took a fatal turn when he fell in love with Hiram Steele's daughter, Kristen.
The richest and most powerful rancher in the area, Steele caught the young lovers in their secret meeting place. He ordered one of his wranglers to savagely beat the youth and promised to kill him if he caught the couple together again. Fearful for Matthew's life, Kristen forced herself to a difficult lie: She told him she could no longer love an Indian.
Already humiliated and heartbroken, Matthew soon faced even greater troubles. A proud and arrogant lieutenant from Fort Bates, Seth Carlson, had staked a claim to Kristen's hand. He visited Matthew with a merciless ultimatum: Either Matthew pulled up stakes for good, or the Hanchons would lose their contract to supply Fort Batesthe very lifeblood of their mercantile business.
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Thus trapped between the sap and the bark, a miserable but determined Matthew said goodbye to the only life he knew and lit out for the upcountry of the Powder RiverCheyenne Indian country. But his white man's clothing and language and customs doomed him. Captured by braves from Chief Yellow Bear's tribe, he was immediately accused of being a Bluecoat spy and sentenced to torture and death.
Two young braves especially hated him: Black Elk, the tribe's war leader, and his cousin Wolf Who Hunts Smiling. Black Elk's loathing of this intruder deepened when Chief Yellow Bear's daughter, Honey Eater, took too keen an interest in the accused spy's fate.
Wolf Who Hunts Smiling was about to plunge a knife deep into his vitals when an authoritative voice stopped him. The speaker was old Arrow Keeper, the tribe's shaman and protector of the four sacred Medicine Arrows.
Arrow Keeper had just returned from experiencing a crucial vision at holy Medicine Lake. In that vision, a mysterious youththe son of a long-lost Cheyenne chiefeventually led the entire Cheyenne nation in its greatest battle victory. This mystery warrior would be recognized by a distinctive mark, and Arrow Keeper spotted it buried in the hair over the prisoner's right temple: a mulberry-colored birthmark in the shape of an arrowhead, the mark of the warrior.
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