The Black Harvest has been shortlisted for the Missouri Authors Award

The Black Harvest has been shortlisted for the Missouri Authors Award!

The Black Harvest

Ashby Marchbanks AKA "Preacher" falls in with William Clarke Quantrill's deadly bushwhackers who fight battles on their own terms without the sanction of Jefferson Davis and the impromptu Confederate government. Preacher becomes well acquainted with like-minded young rebels like Frank James and his seemingly charmed younger brother Jesse. They fight with many others who would become notorious in their own right under another violent young chieftain, Captain Bloody Bill Anderson, in the waning days of America's war. This is all out war in the western theater where the outnumbered guerrillas wear stolen Federal blue and fight by "bushwhacking" their enemies in a war fought at close range, bristling with Navy Colts. Theirs is a war for survival on the bloody border where violence had been going on long before Fort Sumter. Quantrill's men and his Captains fight for themselves and each other, as they realize each day brings them one step closer to eventual defeat, they continue to fight in the spirit of stubborn defiance the Show Me state became known for.