James S. Kelly
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The Wounded Breed
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TRUE TO HIS WORD, Joseph Horn Cloud presented White Bird to the Pine Ridge Indian Council for a Trial on Behalf of the four soldiers. Their verdict, which Joseph and his brother feared, was a lifetime ban from the Sioux Nation and all its followers. It was to commence in ten days, White Lance and his brother had expected a similar fate for their younger brother, but not one of that length.
Their parting was one of sadness. They loved their white brother and would miss him forever. but they knew in their heart that this was just a verdict and not as great as the court in Santa Barbara had pronounced.
White Bird vowed to his brother that he would devote the remainder of his life to being a good man and one they could be proud of. He spent the next week in meditation at his parent's grave and at the monument at Wounded Knee. He then left the area and headed south toward Sidney. He found Rosita Riley in a dirty saloon on the outskirts of the town and asked her to forgive him. He learned that he had a son who was four years old.$10.25
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A Man of Breeding
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Tommy Sanchez, the son of Sitting Bull, the victor at the Battle of the Little BigHorn and his captive wife, found out early in life what prejudice was for a half-breed. Initially, he was able to overcome the stigma, but one fateful day his entire world turned upside down and he was pursued from town to town by a vengeful sheriff who forced him to continually move once he was established in a community.
Sarah Hansen was captured by Indians when she was a teenager and forced into a marriage with Crazy Horse, the war chief of the Sioux. Upon his death, she had to fend for herself and two children in a white world that treated her with contempt, viewing her as a white squaw and the widow of a savage.
Unaware of each other, Sanchez and Hansen began a quest for self respect, overcoming many obstacles and finally meeting in the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley in California.$12.25
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The Downtrodden Breed
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Hiram Bookers became disenchanted with his life on the east coast and sold his merchant fleet involved in the Slave Trade and bought a large parcel south of Santa Barbara. After he built his home, he advertised for a mail order bride. While on a hunting trip, Hiram was shot and left for dead. He was found and taken to the hospital by Tommy Sanchez, the son of Sitting Bull and his wife Sarah who'd been married to Crazy Horse, the Indian hero of the Battle of the Little BigHorn. When Hiram recovered, he was suffering from amnesia. Tommy Sanchez and his wife took him in and employed him at their ranch. The county sheriff, seeking reelection, sensed that Silas Smith, as Bookers was now called, may have been involved in a robbery of a special train, carrying thirty thousand in money for a new bank in Santa Barbara. The sheriff harassed Silas until he uncovered evidence pointing at him as one of the train bandits. It was Tommy Sanchez who found the clues pointing to someone else. He came up with a plan to free Smith, uncover his past and identify the actual train robber.
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A Breed Apart
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Jason Brown, a bank robber and killer, was comfortable taking anything he wanted. When he made a proposition to Sarah Sanchez and was rebuffed, he kidnapped her and made his getaway to the Santa Ynez Mountains. Tommy Sanchez, the son of Sitting Bull, reverting to his days as an Indian Brave, went in search of his wife. He used all his skills he learned at the feet of his famous father, to track down the two. The reader will be mesmerized at the final confrontation between the two men.
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The Inclusive Breed
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Franklin Sutter was born in Alabama prior to the civil war. His parents were Marsha Lee Sutter, the white daughter of Jesse and Carolyn Sutter and Odelle Jones a black slave on their plantation. However, Franklin is white. His father, Odelle is banished from the plantation and Franklin is raised by his mother. When his mother dies, he's adopted by her brother and becomes heir to the family fortune while still a teenager, with his secret intact. His future travels take him to the seat of the power in the US and thence to California where he meets the legendary Tommy Sanchez, gets involved in a land war and marries into a Spanish aristocratic family, who are not aware of his secret. The climax comes when he's forced to reveal his secret.
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