Huitt's Trail

About the Book

Unexpectedly, a loud crash came from the thick undergrowth. The bush parted, and a black charger leaped right into the middle of the makeshift camp. Mounted on the back of the snorting animal was a large man with a dingy boater on his head and a deep scar across his left cheek. In his left hand, he held the reins of the well-built animal, in the other a Colt revolver. Brit Smith pulled the trigger of the cocked pistol, and a flash of smoke and sparks flew from the barrel. Blood flew from the man’s chest, who had been sitting on the second wagon, as he toppled off of the seat backward. Smith steered the horse, and wielded the weapon at the man on the first wagon. Another loud roar, the man flew from his seat . . .

About the Author

Jeff Blackburn is a native of the South West. His mother’s parents migrated from Texas and Arkansas in the early nineteen hundreds to homestead Granath Mesa near Telluride Colorado. His father’s side hailed from Texas and Oklahoma and settled in the oil fi elds of Kansas. Blackburn’s interest in his families heritage between 1840 and 1890, in untamed America, is refl ected in the continuing saga of the Huitts. But he also has interest in more current history, as refl ected in his book Misguided Morals a fi ctional account of events surrounding the Kennedy Assassination.