Slim Siringo - Wind Digits (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798227033826)

Wind Digits, is considered gossip.

Hot air being expelled by wagging tongues. Women especially were prone to this disease. The barbershop, as well, was abuzz of the wind digits that seemed to declare the oncoming civil unrest. where sons and husbands who could go off to war, should it come, to never come home. And, yet, these aren't the only ones who were listening to the wind digits. Many people in America began to listen to these wind digits of a civil unrest, possibly even a civil war knowing it would be fought on American soil. It must also be said that the wind is ever on the move, even before the threat of war was in the eyes of men. These events written in this book are the actions of heroic men against a formidable enemy such as the Comanche, the Apache, the Caddo, and the Karankawa Indians in southeast Texas, and of course, Devlin Wade.

Wind digits is set during the 1860s just before Civil War was initiated in the southern states against the states in the north. States rights, and the institution of slavery against the Federal Government who is trying to make the south bend the knee to federal laws that are somewhat risky to enforce. From start to finish this book contains different events that could be construed as horrific, daring feats of heroism, inevitable loss of life, Indian, and white man. Plans made, fell through. Is it deceit? Justice, or revenge? Wind Digits is the rumors, and the gossip of the intending Civil War.