Comanchero Blood

Lieutenant Gavin Ross and his US Dragoons were ordered to escort a wagon train of Russian settlers from Fort Leavenworth to their new spreads deep in the Kansas Territory. Expecting trouble from renegade Kiowa and Comanche war parties, Gavin had to move fast when ruthless Comanchero leader Guido Lazaro and his gang of killers attacked by surprise. Outnumbered and surrounded, the US Dragoons had to beat back the half-breed desperadoes before the territory was soaked in Comanchero blood! Patrick E. Andrews was born in Oklahoma in 1936 into a family of pioneers who participated in its growth from the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory to statehood. His father's family were homesteaders and his mother's cattle ranchers. Consequently, he is among the last generation of American writers who had contacts with those people from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Patrick's wife Julie says he both speaks and writes with an Oklahoma accent.He is an ex-paratrooper, having served in the 82nd Airborne Division in the active army and the 12th Special Forces Group in the army reserves. Patrick began his writing career after leaving the army. He and his better half presently reside in southern California. He has a son Bill, who is an ex-paratrooper and a probation officer, and two grandchildren. The adventures, trials and tribulations of the brave men of the U.S. Dragoons. In a land as savage as the Indians who lived on its vast prairies and burning deserts, the U.S. Dragoons were the only law. Short on rations but long on courage, they were the first cavalry soldiers to ride the great western frontier and fight to keep the peace.