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With the nation abuzz over the defeat of Custer, journalist Carlo Nelson is assigned to follow an equally colorful cavalry colonel, Jefferson McClannon, into battle. But Carlo is about to discover that war on the Plains is like nothing he has experienced in his previous travels...
A short story by Peacemaker and Spur Award winner Troy D. Smith
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Troy D. Smith
Born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee, Mr. Smith has loved books even before he could read them. In 1995 his first short story was accepted by Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he has been published in magazines since then on a fairly regular basis. Author of numerous award winning short stories and novels, Troy is currently a Doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Illinois. He says, "I don't write about things that happen to people—I write about people that things happen to."
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Total War - Troy D. Smith
TOTAL WAR
By Troy D. Smith
SMASHWORDS EDITION
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Wolf Pass Books
TOTAL WAR
Copyright © 2002 by Troy D. Smith
Originally published in The Shootist
Cover: Frederick Remington’s The Trooper (public domain)
This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously
TOTAL WAR
Troy D. Smith
I did not relish my assignment. My own features must have betrayed me to my editor, for he stopped in mid-sentence and said, Is there some problem, Nelson?
I shook my head, trying to transform my errant sneer into something resembling a polite smile.
Really, though, Brinton,
I said. Another vainglorious army officer, setting forth to rout the red men. I would think Custer had that market cornered.
George Custer sold newspapers,
Brinton said, impatient with me as always. "George Custer’s corpse sold newspapers. Now
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