From Roland's Bookstore
Bloody Merchants' War
Poor farmers and ranchers gripped in
bondage by an iron triangle of crooked merchants,
an oppressive military regime, and a corrupt Territorial government. Lincoln County
New Mexico was not a good place for a fugitive wanting only to blend peacefully, without attention, into his surroundings. Instead,
Jethro is ambushed by events beyond his control; those events spiral into a conflict without
clear distinctions between good and evil, right or wrong, friend or enemy. Eventually the
young fugitive chooses, but did he make the right choice? With Billy the Kid? For John Chisum?
It was indeed a
Bloody Merchants' War
5-1/2 X 8-1/2 12-pt. cover 288 pages $16.95
Roland Cheek crafted over 12
hundred newspaper columns and 16 hundred radio scripts, many from the back of a horse.
In addition, he's written hundreds of magazine pieces,
and 12 books. He claims to have "diarrhea of the keyboard" -- which means,
of course, that a keyboard sometimes played a role.
2nd book in the
Valediction for Revenge series
Actually the 4th and 5th books created in what became Roland Cheek's Valediction For Revenge series, Bloody Merchants' War and Lincoln County
Crucible chronologically became 2nd and 3rd in the struggling life of protagonist
Jethro Spring. What's even more pertinent to readers, however, is the fact that Bloody Merchants' War and Lincoln County Crucible portray the actual history of that violent period in New Mexico
Tales of the West that Was
and the West that Is
(or send check or money order for $16.95 to Roland Cheek, P.O. Box 1118, Columbia Falls, MT 59912)
