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Oliver Colfax was standing at the bar of a St. Louis hotel when he heard the news, the one man he had ever wanted to call a friend had been killed. Colfax had once been hired to kill the lawman, but had stopped himself before carrying out his job. Now he sets out to avenge the murder of the only truly honest man he had ever known.

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Robert J. Conley was born in 1940 in Cushing Oklahoma. He is a Cherokee author and enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized tribe of American Indians. He is noted for depictions of precontact and historical Cherokee figures. He is known for a series of books called the Real People Series. The sixth show more of the series, The Dark Island (1996) won the Spur Award for best Western novel in 1995. He has also won two other Spur Awards, in 1988 for the short story "Yellow Bird", and in 1992 for the novel Nickajack. In 2007, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3553 .O494 .C65Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-

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