| Kisatchie:
The Big Thicket
Sitting
astride the old contraband trail that leads from the Natchez
Trade to the great plains of Texas, the Kisatchie became a
rookery for thieves and cutthroats, bushwhackers and
rogues. The mid 1800's sees a tribe Scots-Irish Americans,
hoping to find a peaceful home after generations of wandering,
settle there. They find, instead, a fiendish overlord
whose tentacles of power has penetrated every aspect of the life
of the settlement. He rules a veritable precursor of the
Mafia from his inviolate post as Magistrate and pillar of the
community. The lot of hero and deliverer falls to Daniel
Webster O'Shean, a disillusioned Civil War veteran whose tastes
run more to the quiet solitude of the wilderness than to
intrigues and shoot-outs. How he forges a drag-net to
catch the villain and his gang, and a bitter confrontation with
his childhood friend and only adult companion, makes for
provocative reading.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Genieva
Kolbaker is the great grand-niece of the real life hero of the
Kisatchie legend. She is the mother of seven children,
wife of a retired school administrator and an English-Art
teacher now retired.
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