Chet Cunningham

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Chet Cunningham : Chet Cunningham, who makes his home in San Diego, California, is a prolific writer of both novels and nonfiction books. He comes from a newspaper background so is geared to producing writing every day and not "when the muse moves me." He said he doesn't believe in writer's block.

In 1950, he was drafted in the Army. After nine months in Japan Cunningham went to the front lines of the war in Korea. He participated in two battles and numerous line-crossing and prisoner patrols. Assigned to a heavy weapons company he served as an 81 mm mortar gunner, squad leader, and section leader. His service earned him the Combat Infantryman's Badge. After two years of service he was discharged in the rank of sergeant.

Cunningham was born in Nebraska, grew up in Oregon, worked in Michigan, and went to college in New York City. Now he lives in California. He works in an expanded den in his home and says he never gets to work late due to fog, rain or traffic jams. "Walk down the hall, turn left and I'm at work."

He graduated from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon with a BA in journalism, and after his hitch in the Army he received his MS degree from the Columbia University Graduated School in Journalism in New York City in 1954.

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Western Fiction 10 Pack: 10 Full Length Classic Westerns Nov 29, 2016

by Robert Vaughan , John Legg , Terry Grosz , Linell Jeppsen , L.J. Martin , Chet Cunningham , Gary McCarthy , Douglas Hirt , Frank Roderus , Michael Newton

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Rugged ranchers. Vengeful lawmen. Discover 10 full-length tales of old-fashioned frontier justice.

Can brothers torn apart by war make peace to find a lost treasure? Will an orphan turned sheriff fulfill his lifelong quest for vengeance? What will it take for deserters, decorated vets, and an Apache scout to pull off a death-defying rescue mission? When you live your life by the gun, it's only a matter of time before the past catches up…

From grizzly dens in the Rockies to no-man’s-lands teeming with outlaws, 10 of the top names in Western fiction explore how the West was won. After these true trailblazers track down fugitives, battle natural disasters, and ride into danger, who among them will be left standing?

The Western Fiction 10 Pack is an unforgettable collection of full-length, first-in-series page-turners. If you like gritty gunslingers, classic tales of frontier justice, and a rich variety of true-to-life backdrops, then you’ll love this action-packed anthology.

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Renegade Army (The Pony Soldiers Book 8) Sep 25, 2014

by Chet Cunningham

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Not content with bilking the tribes and the U. S. government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Saterlee recruited a ruthless, blood thirsty band of renegades to terrorize the territory. He was an Indian Agent hated by men of all colors, a burr in the tail of the...

Outgunned and outmanned, but never outfought, Col. Colt Harding's Lightning Troop charged straight into the mouth of hell, determined to put Saterlee out of business and exterminate his private army of killers.
They Were to fierce to live, too mean to die.

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Slaughter at Buffalo Creek (The Pony Soldiers Book 1) Jun 6, 2014

by Chet Cunningham

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Captain Colt Harding, grief-stricken and hungry for revenge, sets out to destroy White Eagle, the Indian who killed his wife and son. White Eagle roams the land raping, pillaging, and murdering, showing no mercy. Captain Harding takes it upon himself to see that this savage be fed to the scavengers. Only with the help of Pony Soldiers, some of the vilest people in existence, will Captain Harding be able to avenge the deaths of his wife and son and rescue his daughter from a life of servitude.

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Comanche Massacre (The Pony Soldiers Book 2) Aug 27, 2014

by Chet Cunningham

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They killed for a living and died for a price.
The Comanches had been pushed too far by the government in Washington, driven to anger by the whiskey traders and formed into a deadly fighting force by the cold blooded gun runners. THE PONY SOLDIERS were a dirty undisciplined rabble, but they were the only chance a thousand settlers had to see another sunrise. They were an unyielding rock in a sea of bloodshed, determined to fight to the last- each man swearing to kill ten Comanches before he died.

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Battle Cry (The Pony Soldiers Book 9) May 30, 2014

by Chet Cunningham

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The Cheyenne are as tough and mean as they come, and the Pony Soldiers know what they're up against. Get captured and you may just be skinned alive, and what they'll do to your women folk can't be spoken about. This time the Pony Soldiers will ride into hell, and some won't ride out. Another great action adventure by America's premier western writer, Chet Cunningham.

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Deadly Justice (Mr. Justice Book 1) Nov 17, 2014

by Chet Cunningham

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NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF ONE MAN…

Introducing Lance Logan who has built up a reputation as Mr. Justice, but only a handful of people know his true identity. Mr. Justice has one goal, and that is to bring justice to the common man in the west who cannot fight for himself, oh, and to keep his identity hidden all the while.

Mr. Justice finds himself defending a county sheriff who has been convicted of back shooting and killing a man. Lance goes to the town and finds a lying eyewitness, gets the sheriff cleared, then goes on three separate man hunts to bring the killers to justice.

His life and that of the accused killers hang in the balance when he blunders into a war between two feuding families. We don't know if he will survive, let alone get back to the county jail with his prisoner.

Deadly Justice is the first book in a real page-turning, classic western adventure series by best-selling author Chet Cunningham.

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Comanche Moon (The Pony Soldiers Book 3) Jun 18, 2014

by Chet Cunningham

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When White Eagle kidnapped Major Harding's daughter, he signed his own death warrant. Every day he held the little girl in harsh slavery it brought him closer to the hour of his execution. For White Eagle was not up against an ordinary troop of cavalry, he was being hunted by remorseless men who lived only to kill, relentless men who would rather die than turn back. There was nowhere on earth White Eagle could run, nowhere he could hide from the brutal revenge of the...PONY SOLDIERS. The Comanche are fighting for their very existence...and the Pony Soldiers have to be in their gunsights if they are to survive. It's a battle of cavalry company against tribe, man against man, of the very survival of both. And their's blood on the moon, and soaking the prairie. Don't miss this exciting action adventure novel from America's premiere western author, Chet Cunningham.

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Ride Tall, Hang High (The Outlaws Series Book 1) Dec 22, 2013

by Chet Cunningham

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There's nothing like a smoking six gun in your hand to make you grow up fast! They were the youngest-and some said the most dangerous-gang in the territory. They were just kids, but the savagery of the untamed West made men out of them before their time.

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The American West Box Set: Six Full Length Classic Westerns Sep 29, 2015

by Robert Vaughan , Frank Roderus , Gary McCarthy , Chet Cunningham , John Legg , L.J. Martin

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Six full-length classic western novels from six award-winning authors, and arguably the top western writers of our time.

Texas Glory by Robert Vaughan - Stillwater Smith by Frank Roderus - The Horsemen by Gary McCarthy - Wades War by Chet Cunningham - Nemesis by L. J. Martin - Sheriffs Blood by John Legg

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Boots and Saddles (The Pony Soldiers Book 7) May 30, 2014

by Chet Cunningham

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Clever and more cunning than any redskin, stronger and meaner than any white man, Colonel Colt Harding was called in to clean up Fort Wallace, Kansas, where a secret brotherhood of officers was torturing and killing soldiers who didn't cotton to their poisoned politics. The colonel had to move fast, because bloodthirsty tribes of Sioux and Cheyenne were surrounding the fort on nearby Breecher's Island, and only Harding and his Lightning Troop could stop them. Remorseless men who lived to kill, Harding's misfits sneered in the face of danger, for no one had yet survived an all-out attack by the Pony Soldiers.

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Arizona Gunfire (Chisholm Book 2) May 18, 2015

by Chet Cunningham

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The brutal rape and horrible murder of young Hannah Miller was nearly avenged. Wade Chisholm had already gunned down two of the killers and now he was hard on the trail of the third—Shipley Hart, leader of a small army of cutthroat ex-rebel soldiers. His vengeance leads him to the secret camp of Hart's Raiders where he learns they plan to bushwhack General Ulysses S. Grant. Chisholm knows he should warn Grant—but suddenly he finds himself face to face with the leering Shiply. His gut screams out to settle personal accounts first—and he hopes he'll still be alive to save Grant.

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Cheyenne Blood Storm (The Pony Soldiers Book 4) May 30, 2014

by Chet Cunningham

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The Cheyenne are running wild and no settler or sodbuster is safe. The Pony Soldiers must beat a trail into trouble if there is ever to be peace in the land, and blood must spill...the question is, whose? Another wild and wooly action adventure western from America's premier western writer, Chet Cunningham.

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Rugged ranchers. Vengeful lawmen. Discover 10 full-length tales of old-fashioned frontier justice.

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