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According to the book description of
Shamus Ghillie US Secret Service In Medicine Hat, “After the Civil War, the country was growing
and growing quickly. By 1868, the nation had left infancy and was now toddling, fast and furiously, into Manifest Destiny.
Barring the American Indian, the West was wide open for this wobbling stroll. But, just as you must guard against potential
troubles for a new walker, so needed this emerging nation to shield against inherent dangers caused by rapid growth. Issues
such as national sovereignty, boundaries, settlers, and indigenous populations had to be handled with kid gloves so as not
to sully the hands of the nation. The country needed a special kind of man to facilitate these hazards, and facilitate them...
in a covert manner. This is a tale about such a man, the woman he saves, the youth he inspires and the Indian and soldier...
that he is. Shamus Ghillie is a half-Choctaw half-Irish former elite Confederate soldier, who is, likewise, a man of the wild
and untamed west. He’s imbued with rare, and unusual, skills as a hunter of both animals and...men. It is this man,
and his unique talents, that President Grant wants to secretly enlist to deal with trouble along the boundary of the newly
formed nation of Canada, just north of the Montana Territory. But, men like Ghillie don’t come easily, and, if they
come at all... they don’t come cheap. Shamus distrusts government any government but the money’s good, and he
has a kid sister to consider. Still, truth be told... he would’ve taken on this task to gain justice for the Blackfeet
free of charge had they not offered the fee. So, he becomes the nation’s first unofficial, yet official, spy with the
U.S. Secret Service. Thus begins an adventurous story that encapsulates a part of the nation’s early expansion westward
and the people white, red and blue-coated, alike who made American history.”
One reader of Shamus Ghillie
US Secret Service In Medicine Hat said, “Medicine Hat is the hallmark of a classic Western, interwoven
with historical truths unknown to most. The main character, Ghillie, is the epitome of the Warrior archetype, depicting honorable
values, raw grit, and charisma. The author, Walks-As-Bear, introduces American Indian spirituality and ethics through Ghillie,
whose larger than life persona and likability, draws in the reader. To me, the book has universal appeal and held my attention
from beginning till end. More than just a story, the book made me THINK about my own personal values and choices, wondering
whether I could live up to Ghillie's standards. A great read.”
According to the book description of
The Murmurings, “Ely Stone returns to the wilds of upper Michigan from the military. A jaded
and wounded warrior, he accepts a job as his tribe's special agent and sets off to trouble-shoot the ominous Muskcrat Island.
He finds love in the form of a beautiful girl, but things only go badly from there. Chinese agents, an old Russian spy and
secretive U.S. Air Force operatives are all after something on the island; and the former Coast Guardsman is right in the
way. Ely escapes death, but, at the end of his tribal mission, he finally hears the "The Murmurings" and must not
only face the fact that he is more deeply Indian than he ever realized, but also...that there's something more terrifying
about that island... than anything he's ever experienced in war. And that 'some-thing'... came to rest... smack-dab in the
middle of Indian country.”
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