William Johnstone - A Good Day to Die

The braves fled north, taking Red Hand home. The remains would be buried in a secret place where the Texans would not find it.

In a camp hidden in the heart of Comancheria, two aging warriors sat around a low fire late at night.

“It is well,” Wahtonka claimed. “It was not fitting for the Texans to delight in the birds picking clean the bones of Red Hand.”

“He had a vision of great slaughter,” Laughing Bear remarked.

“The slaughter was of our braves, not the whites. The vision was false. It led Red Hand to his own doom.”

“Waugh! It is so.”

The fire burned very low. In its wan red glow, the faces of Wahtonka and Laughing Bear were like a pair of old ceremonial masks.

Laughing Bear threw some kindling on the fire. It flared up, burning hotter and brighter. All too soon it played out, the darkness drawing in, darker than before.

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Following the death of William W. Johnstone, the Johnstone family is working with a carefully selected writer to organize and complete Mr. Johnstone’s outlines and many unfinished manuscripts to create additional novels in all of his series like The Last Gunfighter, Mountain Man, and Eagles, among others. This novel was inspired by Mr. Johnstone’s superb storytelling.

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Notes

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See Savage Texas, the first volume in the series.