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WINNER OF THE 2025 SPUR AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL WESTERN NOVEL
Inspired by the shocking true story of the Gunfight at Hide Park, this blazing Western novel by Spur Award–winner Johnny D. Boggs takes readers back to that fateful summer in 1871—when Newton, Kansas, became “the wickedest town in the…
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The author enriches his tale, based on the Tuttle's Dance Hall Massacre of 1871 in Newton, Kansas, with parallel stories of a family of Texas cowboys, a woman restauranteur struggling to set up shop in Newton, and a newspaper woman from the Wichita Times, more-or-less exiled to Newton in order to get her out of the editor’s hair. As the individual stories build, they are braided together toward a fascinating climax. The period detail is well rendered, the characters are believable and distinct, and the violence is rendered so masterfully that it can cause chills.
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