Showdown at Sundown

About the Book

Outlaws escaping from Sheriff and posse have stolen ponies from the Shoshoni Indian Reservation and now terrorize a nearby town.

Bull Bear, the son of the Indian Chief, has come to the town to reclaim the ponies, but the locals turn on him after he further incurs the wraith of the outlaws.

Will the townspeople take out their anger on Bull Bear, or will they see past their ethnic differences and work with the Indian to fight the common enemy?

About the Author

William Hairston is an Author, Playwright, Poet and former actor. His books include: THE WORLD OF CARLOS (novel); SEX AND CONFLICT (novel); HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL/BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA; SPACED OUT! (A SPACE ADVENTURE. novel); SHOWDOWN AT SUNDOWN (Western novel); PASSION AND POLITICS (novel) POETRY AND PROSE OF PASSION AND COMPASSION (collection book); SWAN SONG (novel); IT?S HUMAN NATURE (story collection). His produced plays include: WALK IN DARKNESS (NYC); SWANSONG OF THE 11TH DAWN (NYC). DOUBLE DARE (Theatre Festival, Washington, DC); BLACK ANTIGONE, (N.C. Drama Festival). He has had poems published in anthologies and magazines. He developed, published and edited the DC PIPELINE (Washington, DC Government employees newspaper, 40,000 monthly circulation); National Radio News Editor and Correspondent (for the DNC Presidential Campaign of 1968?Nation wide); He wrote movie and TV scripts for the U.S. Information Agency, including; APOLLO-11 MAN ON THE MOON; TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; MEDIA HORA; JULES VERNE vs. REAL FLIGHT TO THE MOON; CHICAGO-PORTRAIT OF A CITY, and many more. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Grant, 2004 Creative Achievement Honored Alumni Award, Univ. Northern Colorado, and a Ford Foundation Theatre Fellowship. His play, IRA ALDRIDGE (THE LONDON CONFLICT), was the winner of the Group theatre?s Playwriting Award, (Seattle, WA, 1987-1988); He was an actor of Stage, Television and Motion Pictures. He played a featured role in MGM s TAKE THE HIGH GROUND, with Richard Widmark and Karl Malden (1953) and had the leading role in HARLEM DETECTIVE, WOR TV (1953). He graduated from the University of Northern Colorado, BA, (Greeley), and took additional writing courses at Columbia and New York Universities.