Jim Tarbert

The Cayuse Kid Jim Tarbert

Book One - The Joe Kiuse Fantasy Western Series. Bored! Fifty weeks a year I'm bored. Then Thelma and I take a vacation. Thelma goes to Reno for two weeks. I go to the woods. Joe Kiuse goes to the woods for another implausible adventure to combat the boredom of his daily life. This fall a flash flood carries him back to 1885 for a showdown with The Cayuse Kid to try to keep him from shooting Chief Joseph as cavalrymen escort the defeated warrior to exile on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington Territory. Since Joe looks just like the Cayuse Kid, odds are Marshal Runnels will hang him, Slick-Fingered Watson will deliver his head in a gunnysack to collect a reward, or The Kid's disgruntled gang members will shoot him in the back. Then again, Joe might survive if a profane saloon girl and an aging outlaw help him when he faces The Cayuse Kid in a fight to the death to save Chief Joseph's life.