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The cobbler of Spanish Fort and other frontier stories, Johnny D. Boggs

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The cobbler of Spanish Fort and other frontier stories, Johnny D. Boggs

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eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The cobbler of Spanish Fort and other frontier stories

Oclc number

1337946309

Responsibility statement

Johnny D. Boggs

Series statement

THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE PRINT Hardcover Western

Summary

"Setting up shop in rip-roaring Spanish Fort, Texas, in the early 1870s, Big Eddie Hager outfitted many cowboys in boots as they headed up the Chisholm Trail. Hagers fame and his company grew with the years, turning Hager Boots & Company, Incorporated, into a global legend. But when a Dallas newspaper reporter arrives in whats left of Spanish Fort, an old-timer sets the record straight by telling the true story of the man behind the Hager legend-the real cobbler of Spanish Fort. The Cobbler of Spanish Fort, published for the first time, kicks off this collection of short fiction by Johnny D. Boggs, the most awarded writer in the history of Western Writers of America with nine Spur Awards and 14 Spur finalist honors. A Piano at Dead Mans Crossing-a 2002 Spur winner-tells the story of an Arizona frontier family from the viewpoint of an upright grand piano. A Comanche warrior imprisoned at Floridas Fort Marion attempts to paint his way to freedom in Comanche Camp at Dawn; Buffalo Bill Cody and his wife fight it out to save their marriage in The Cody War; and Wild Bill Hickok umpires a baseball game in Kansas City in Umpire Colt-all Spur Award finalists. Dont expect gunfights on dusty streets. Boggs fills these 21 Western, Civil War and Southern tales, old and new, with quirky cowboys, revenge, humor, heroes, baseball, teens coming of age, and even a kid playing cowboys and Indians with his mothers hair curlers"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

INTRODUCTION: The Cobbler of Spanish Fort -- AWARD WINNERS: A Piano at Dead Man's Crossing -- The Cody War -- Comanche Camp at Dawn -- Plantin' Season -- Umpire Colt -- The San Angela Stump Match of 1876 -- THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER: I am Hugh Gunter -- Electric Fences -- The Antioch County All-Star Game -- Massacre at Chest of Drawers Mountain -- THE EARLY YEARS: Irish Whiskey -- Blue Norther -- Gun on the Wall -- Crawford McGee -- CIVIL WAR TALES: The Water Bearer -- The Barber of Florence -- When I Rode with the Boys -- COWBOY STORIES: The Snoring Man -- The Time We Buried Caleb Ketchum -- Red River Crossing

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