The Hunkpapa Scout: A Western Trio

by Will Henry

A Five-time Spur Award-winning Author

"Red Blizzard" is set in the Dakota Territory during the conflict between Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and the U.S. Army. Pawnee Perez is an army scout, distrusted by some of the officers and hated by the Sioux. He's also the only man who can make his way through the hostile Sioux surrounding the fort and ride for military reinforcements. "Tales of the Texas Rangers" is an account of the Forty Year War the oldest law enforcement agency on the North American continent waged against the Comanches, military invasions from Mexico, and pursuit of frontier thieves and murderers like John Wesley Hardin and Sam Bass. "The Hunkpapa Scout" is Sunkele Sha, a full-blood who was a trail guide for a wagon train before it was wiped out by the warring Sioux. Escaping with his life, he attempts to warn a U.S. Cavalry troop.

Henry Wilson Allen wrote under both the Clay Fisher and Will Henry bylines and was a five-time winner of the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Over a dozen films have been based on his work.

301 pages, Hardcover

First published March 2, 2004

About the author

Also wrote westerns as Clay Fisher.

Henry Wilson Allen (September 12, 1912 – October 26, 1991) was an American author and screenwriter. He used several different pseudonyms for his works. His 50+ novels of the American West were published under the pen names Will Henry and Clay Fisher. Allen's screenplays and scripts for animated shorts were credited to Heck Allen and Henry Allen.

Allen's career as a novelist began in 1952, with the publication of his first Western No Survivors. Allen, afraid that the studio would disapprove of his moonlighting, used a pen-name to avoid trouble.[3] He would go on to publish over 50 novels, eight of which were adapted for the screen. Most of these were published under one or the other of the pseudonyms Will Henry and Clay Fisher. Allen was a five-time winner of the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America and a recipient of the Levi Strauss Award for lifetime achievement.

Henry Wilson Allen was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Allen died of pneumonia on October 26, 1991 in Van Nuys, California. He was 79.