The Red Sabbath

by Lewis B. Patten

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Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Historical Novel. Victory or Death! General George Armstrong Custer was determined to find one or the other in the valley of the Little Big Horn - and so he led two hundred and twenty-five men of the 7th Cavalry into one of the bloodiest massacres in American history. In The Red Sabbath, told through the eyes of a hard-bitten civilian scout, Spur Award-winning author Lewis B. Patten vividly recreates the dramatic events that led up to the violent show more clash of arms on that blood-soaked Sabbath. show less

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Lewis Byford Patten was a prolific author of American Western novels, born in Denver, Colorado in 1915. He often published under the names Lewis Ford, Len Leighton and Joseph Wayne. He used the last two names when writing in collaboration with Wayne D. Overholser. He died on May 22, 1981. His novels included Trail to Vicksburg (1997), Death Rides show more the Denver Stage (1999), The Woman at Ox-Yoke (2000) and Blood on the Grass (2002). (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, Historical Fiction, General Fiction, Teen
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3566 .A79Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-

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