Ninety-Mile Prairie
by Lee Gramling. Paperback, 288 pgs. Pineapple Press Publishing, 2002.
Cracker Westerns are rip-roarin’
adventures full of crackling action; authentic historical details; real bad guys
and tough, upright good guys, who both know how to use a gun; and women who have
what it takes to survive on the frontier. But this frontier is Florida, which
was six-gun cattle country wilder than the West.
Follow Gramling’s character
Peek Tillman, a cattle herder, as he sets out on an adventure with a fiercely
capable Indian, Chekita Joe, to rescue an archeologist and his wife from what he
believes is a doomed expedition.