Author Description

Western stories. Spur Award-winning author. "Cushman displays a well-honed ear for dialogue and a sense of place enlivened by much actual history and period detail." - Publishers Weekly. Comanche John is a notorious road agent. If he has a last name, no one knows it. Yet his legend precedes him in the form of frontier ballads sung by teamsters and stagecoach drivers. His life is filled with danger and conflict, and although his activities often place him on the wrong side of the law, more often than not he ends up defending the innocent and fighting for what's right. The Adventures of Comanche John brings the reader into the thrilling world of Montana mining camps, wagon trains on the Oregon Trail, and stagecoaches everywhere. Dan Cushman grew up on the Cree Indian Reservation in Montana. In the early 1940s, his stories began appearing in magazines, and in 1953, he had his first commercial success with his bestseller, Stay Away, Joe, about the mix and occasional clash of cultures between Anglos and Indians.