tag:bucktailsandbroomsticks.com,2005:/blogs/blogBlog2024-03-13T04:13:34-04:00William P. Robertsonfalsetag:bucktailsandbroomsticks.com,2005:Post/62409612020-03-07T14:38:21-05:002024-03-13T04:13:12-04:00New Facebook Page<p><span style="color:#2980b9;">Unfortunately, my William P. Robertson Facebook page got hacked. It took me ten years to build a following of over 2,000 friends but just a few minutes for a jerk to shut me out! That forced me to start a Bill Robertson page that will include my updates and new posts. I strongly urge everyone to unfriend William P. Robertson and instead follow me on Bill Robertson, my official Facebook venue</span><span style="color:#3498db;">.</span></p>William P. Robertsontag:bucktailsandbroomsticks.com,2005:Post/60981582016-07-02T21:55:57-04:002024-03-13T04:13:34-04:00THE ALLEGHENIES FRENCH & INDIAN WAR SERIES
<p>David Rimer and I have written three French and Indian War novels set in the Allegheny River Valley in Pennsylvania and New York State during the 1750's. The main characters are freewheeling long hunters who have a knack for getting into trouble. Here is a look at the individual novels:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">AMBUSH IN THE ALLEGHENIES</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"A mountain man's first duty ain't to no king," yelped Lightnin' Jack Hawkins. It's to survive!" That was enough justification for his fellow scouts, Bearbite Bob Winslow and young Will Cutler, when they fled from the massacre of General Edward Braddock's redcoats near Fort Duquesne. Yes, survival was an everyday priority in the primordial forests of he Alleghenies. Dangers lurked everywhere here in the form of ferocious cougars, scalp-stealing savages and white water rivers of immense fury. The woodsmen's worst nemesis, though, was Bold Wolf, the vicious Ottawa chief who brutally murdered Cutler's father and wanted to kill all the English like one pigeon. It was only through Bold Wolf's demise that Cutler could achieve inner peace. But would the resourceful lad be brave enough to meet the challenge when his cruel foe ambushed him in the dense hemlocks of the Alleghenies?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">ATTACK IN THE ALLEGHENIES</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"All I want is to see what's over the next ridge an' to hunt er trap it!" exclaimed Jack Hawkins when pressed to explain his philosophy of life. That was to change quickly, however, when the woodsman was captured by villainous rum traders who took him to the Indian village of Kit-Han-Ne to face certain torture or death. Instead, the Delaware adopt Jack into their tribe, and he develops strong relationships with his brother, Red Hawk, and his mother, Willow. He also finds love in the arms of Little Mink, the maiden who helps him escape back to his own people. After the bloodthirsty warriors of Kittanning set the Pennsylvania frontier ablaze, Hawkins leads Colonel John Armstrong's colonial army to the village to burn it to the ground. When the white men display the same cruelty as the Delawares in exacting their revenge, Jack undergoes yet another life-altering experience.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">ANNIHILATED IN THE ALLEGHENIES</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">"I'll take wolves an' panthers any day over men. 'Least ya know they wants ta gnaw off yer leg," growled Jack Hawkins after his family was annihilated by the worst sort of treachery. Now, he and his brother, Red Hawk, found themselves in a grim situation. Facing a winter without proper supplies, they return to civilization only to fight in Major James Grant's disastrous attack on Fort Duquesne. Retreating to Fort Ligonier, they later withstand two French assaults. In the second, Red Hawk is murdered in gristly fashion by the rogue Iroquois princess, Dark Star. Full of hatred and psychotic rage, she is a villain not soon to be forgotten! Nor is Doug Blood, the serial killer who befriends Hawkins. The age-old themes of wickedness and revenge darken this chapter of the French and Indian War set in the Pennsylvania wilderness of 1758.</p>
William P. Robertsontag:bucktailsandbroomsticks.com,2005:Post/60981572012-08-29T06:19:01-04:002024-03-13T04:13:34-04:00THE BUCKTAIL BROTHERS SERIES E-book
<p style="text-align: justify;">THE BUCKTAIL BROTHERS SERIES e-book written by David Rimer and me was just released by BookBaby, which has the largest distribution network available online. Our Civil War adventure is now for sale at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, the iBookstore, Sony, Kobo, Baker & Taylor, Copia, Gardner's, and eBookPie. Give THE BUCKTAIL BROTHERS SERIES a try and follow the entire, bloody history of the 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, also known as "the New Bucktails." The unit lost 80% of its men in two hours at the first day's battle at Gettysburg. It got <strong>worse</strong> from there for the survivors!</p>
William P. Robertsontag:bucktailsandbroomsticks.com,2005:Post/60981562010-11-12T09:24:09-05:002021-12-23T04:26:30-05:00Bucktailsandbroomsticks.com Gets a New Look
<p>Recently, my writing became so diverse that it was necessary to overhaul bucktailsandbroomsticks.com. This website will now focus exclusively on my historical fiction collaborations with David Rimer and information about my family and writing career. My horror writing has been moved to a new home, http://www.thehorrorhaven.com, where you can delve into all things Gothic and macabre. I've also created another website to publicize the new Viking series on which I'm collaborating with South African Author, Fiona Ingram, and Pennsylvania artist, David Cox. To learn more about the Dane Wulfdin novels, please visit http://www.viking-sagas.com. If you enjoy my Bucktail and French and Indian War stuff, stay right here! But have your musket cocked and ready, for the Rebs and Delawares are ready to spill out of the woods with ear-piercing shrieks and sharpened bayonets and axes.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>William P. Robertson</p>
William P. Robertson