Slocum (westerns)
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Slocum westerns are the longest running series of westerns ever written, encompassing over 317 books, all of which were published under the pen name Jake Logan. The books were written by a number of authors,[citation needed] at least one (Ride for Revenge) was written by Martin Cruz Smith. The books feature John Slocum as the protagonist.
John is a basically decent man who will do whatever it takes to survive what life in the western frontier throws at him.
A Confederate soldier who lost his ancestral home to carpetbaggers after the Civil War and never went back, Slocum is a tough man, as gunslick as they come.
The books are adult oriented, in fact were first published by Playboy press.
Slocum's adventures have taken him over a lot of the West. He has been a soldier, slave, stage driver, shotgun guard, bank robber, lawman, pioneer, cowboy, sheepherder, poor man, rich man, gambler, drifter.
