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A Blazing Novel Of Men And Women Caught In The Navajo-Cavalry Wars — Based On True Events!Navajo Canyon is a good yarn which has nearly everything including an attractive love story. Chattanooga TN Daily TimesCivilian scout Rick Lindquist and ranch woman Micaela Castanada get caught between the Navajo who are being driven off their traditional farming and hunting grounds by the U.S. government and Col. Kit Carson's cavalry detachment assigned to quell the rebellious nation. A good deal of breath-taking western adventure spins itself through Navajo Canyon. Jefferson MO Post-TribuneRick Lindquist, scout under Colonel Kit Carson, is ordered to lead an Army of destruction against the Navajo driving them out—or killing them.Captured by the Navajo, Rick meets meets Micaela Castaneda, daughter of near-by rancher, who has grown up among them and argues the Navajo cause forcefully. This was their home, their country. And the U. S. government had signed a treaty granting the land to them in perpetuity.So Lindquist decides to help the Navajo stop Carson from driving them out. Carson brands Rick a traitor. That makes him a deserter in no-man's land. Now the Navajo will kill him on sight—and so will the Army!Now Rick and his friend Steve Grayson are alone in the middle of the sun-parched desert. Twenty yards away, two Navajos lean against the pull of taut bowstrings! One arrow is centered between Steve's shoulders. The other has Rick's name on it. Get rid of your gun, Steve, Rick says. Drop it to the ground—carefully.Rick isn't afraid to die, but he'd just as soon avoid it if he can. Suddenly the idea of death seems much more real—as real as the canyon walls that close him in, the vengeance-hungry tribe he faces, and the beautiful savage woman who stands with them .What did Rick Linquist learn while a captive of the Navajo that changed him into one of their strongest supporters? How does Micaela Castanada whose father owns a nearby cattle ranch fit in? Has Col. Kit Carson deliberately planned certain events? Navajo Canyon provides the answers. A refreshing story of the land of the Navajo spirit fathers. Columbia MissourianWith a special Introduction and Afterword about the locale and events on which the book is based.In this gripping adventure-romance you will meet....Rick Lindquist, Army scout, meant to help the Indians hold the canyon - even if it cost him his life.Kit Carson, assigned to clean the Navajo out of the canyon if it meant he had to kill every single one of them, man, woman and child.Micaela, beautiful and proud, was willing to fight to the death to help her lifelong Navajo friends.Juanito, Chief of the Navajo, his courage and integrity forced him to fight for his home.Capt. Pfieffer, a man determined that no mere Indian would make a fool of him.Spur award winner Tom W. Blackburn was a highly-successful western author having penned over 300 stories for magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Argosy, and the pulps. He came by his knowledge of the West honestly having been born in New Mexico and raised in the West, where his father worked at numerous jobs including town marshal. No wonder the Springfield (MO) News-Leader hailed Blackburn's westerns as authentic and realistic.
