Professional troubleshooter James Stark (The Peacemaker) and his wife, attorney Prudence McKay, are asked by black lawyer, Thaddeus Jenkins, to aid his Uncle Caleb who owns a freight line in the lawless Indian Territory town of Beaver.

Caleb and his two partners, all former Buffalo Soldiers, are under attack from greedy town boss Morg Hagen, who doesn’t want an independent business operating in the town he controls. They are also being persecuted by the insidious Ku Klux Klan, with its bloody lynchings and ominous burning crosses.

Stark signs on with the Buffalo Brigade out of admiration for the role the fearless black soldiers played in settling the West.

Once in Beaver, Prudence and Thaddeus begin a legal battle to safeguard the soldiers’ civil rights, while Stark and the freighters wage an ongoing gun war to keep the line operating.

Hagen has unlimited resources and an army of gunmen to do his bidding. Will the Peacemaker’s fighting skill and resolve to see justice prevail be enough to win over such overwhelming odds?

Clifford Blair, prolific AVALON author, passed away unexpectedly on April 28, 2001 at the age of 47. In his remarkable writing career, Blair published 25 western and adventure novels, 22 of which were for AVALON. A native Oklahoman, Clifford lived all his life in the Oklahoma City area where he practiced law in the field of trusts and estate planning.

Clifford’s hobbies included archery, swimming, reading westerns and pulp novels, and doing humane work with animals. He was active in his church and served as a teacher of adult Sunday school classes. He also traveled extensively in Europe, South America, and Africa. He held belt rankings in four martial arts, including a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Clifford is survived by his wife, Alma, also an AVALON author, three adult children, and five grandchildren.

Peacemaker: Buffalo Brigade was retrieved from his files and published posthumously. It is the eighth in the Peacemaker series.


Avalon Westerns by Clifford Blair:

The PeaceMaker Western Series
PEACEMAKER: CONQUISTADOR'S GOLD
PEACEMAKER: BUFFALO BRIGADE
PEACEMAKER LEGACY
PEACEMAKER PRIZEFIGHT
PEACEMAKER PREY
PEACEMAKER RAWHIDE
PEACEMAKER FOR HIRE
PEACEMAKER BOUNTY
PEACEMAKER LAW