Legends from a small town come in many forms. Near Tsalagee, Oklahoma a monster lurks and an infamous 19th Century outlaw's booty lays hidden. When two renegade bikers ride into town looking to find the Lost Treasure of Belle Starr, local legends Hayward Yost and Socrates Ninekiller suspect the ruffians' involvement in the murder of a local farmer; a man rumored to have knowledge of the lost treasure's location...and its curse. As events unfold, others in the community are drawn into the hunt - a Wiccan who moves to town to pursue her New Age lifestyle; her bumbling, socially inept boyfriend women can't seem to resist; a young Iraqi War veteran home to heal his physical and emotional wounds; and a mysterious creature known in Native American lore as a forest demon whom they call "Hill Man who screams at night." Mystery, romance, comedy, and adventure await in Legends of Tsalagee.

Treasure Kills (Legends of Tsalagee)

Literature & Fiction

Truman, Phil

Humor & Satire

Deadly Niche Press

Year in and year out the football powerhouse Hert City  Trojans import a ringer to fuel their championship charge, but their luck is  about to change. In the small backwater town of Tsalagee, first-year coach  Donny Doyle knows the only way he can fulfill his promise to unseat the Hert  City juggernaut, is to beat them at their own GAME.  But in his own recruit, the mammoth and  powerful, yet troubled and ominous Leotis McKinley, Doyle finds more than he  bargained for. Truman's character-rich novel GAME spins an energetic  tale around the intensity of small-town high school football in America. And  yet, amid the fast-paced drive of the story, lies an account of the human  spirit struggling through adversity and finding victory.  Readers of any age or gender will feel the  triumph, honor, and glory that comes from the...GAME. "I couldn't put it down. [GAME] is really well written and the action kept me going until the end."  - Fred W.  Hoster, Executive Director, Dallas Fellowship of Christian Athletes "A masterly written tale of rural football.  Each character is richly portrayed...you feel like you are on the sidelines  with these kids. GAME goes way beyond the game of high school football."  - Brock  Sawyer, Editor, Vype Magazine "I thoroughly enjoyed [GAME]. I will tell other  coaches about this book."      - Gary  Sanchez, President, New Mexico High School Coaches Association

Game

Literary

Buoy Up Press

"Humor is one of the most difficult forms of writing. In addressing the prospective writer of humor, Phil Truman has penned a fun little book full of wit, wisdom and belly chuckles. The humor writer, he makes clear, must never be chicken in approaching his task." Charles W. Sasser

Writing Humor for More Than Laughs

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

AWOC.COM

He’s in it to win it. But when he brings in a troubled teen as a ringer, is the price of success too high?\nVietnam vet Donny Doyle has a job no one wants: coaching Tsalagee High’s basement-dwelling football team. And despite the school’s decade-long record of failure, he promises to deliver the backwater Oklahoma town a state championship. But the only way to do it is to recruit a terrifying, mammoth kid straight out of juvenile detention. 
Battling his own PTSD, Coach Doyle struggles to tame his ticking time bomb of a player into a disciplined gridiron beast. And after a fast five-win start, Doyle’s fears come true when a celebration-gone-wrong turns into a possible season suspension for his undefeatable star. 
Can the gritty former Marine engineer a drive to the Promised Land before his entire squad self-destructs? 
GAME, an American Novel is a fascinating insight into high school football. If you like deep character studies, winning against the odds, and the triumph of the human spirit, then you’ll love Phil Truman’s feel-good story.\nBuy GAME, an American Novel to play for the title today!

GAME: an American Novel

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Independently published

Runaway slave, Creek Indian, feared man with a badge.A railroad cuts across the heart of Indian Territory. They call it the Dead Line because, odds are, any lawman who crosses it won’t come back alive. No law exists west of it, only outlaws.
Ride with the toughest, smartest, best shooter – with both hands – Deputy U.S. Marshal who over put on the badge: Bass Reeves. Reeves isn’t afraid to cross the line to bring back bad guys, alive or dead.
To begin reading these Tales of an Indian Territory Lawman, buy this book today or download it through Kindle Unlimited!

West of the Dead Line: Tales of an Indian Territory Lawman

Genre Fiction

Will Rogers Medallion for Western Fiction “Red Lands Outlaw: The Ballad of Henry Starr is a well-conceived yarn about one of the last of Oklahoma’s horseback-riding outlaws. A good read.” -- Dusty Richards, Spur and Wrangler Award winning author “Author Phil Truman captured a slice of Indian Territory history and has woven it into an interesting period novel. Anyone who loves the history of the West will enjoy Red Lands Outlaw: the Ballad of Henry Starr.” -- Tammy Hinton, author and winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Unbridled "Truman’s storytelling shines throughout..." -- Kathleen Rice Adams, Western Fictioneers In the last years of the tough and woolly land called Indian Territory, and the first of the new state of Oklahoma, the outlaw Henry Starr rides roughshod through its midst. A native son of “The Nations” he’s more Scotch-Irish than Cherokee, but scorned by both. Never really wanted to journey west of the law, yet fate seems to insist. He’s falsely accused of horse-thieving at sixteen, sentenced to hang for murder at nineteen by Judge Isaac Parker, but escapes the gallows on a technicality. Given that opportunity, the charming, handsome, mild-mannered Henry Starr spends the rest of his life becoming the most prolific bank robber the West has ever known.

Red Lands Outlaw: the Ballad of Henry Starr

<h2>There's something precious hidden in the hills. But everyone who seeks it never returns...</h2> WWII vet Hayward Yost happily enjoys retirement in small-town Oklahoma, a million miles away from his war years. But when a buddy dies under mysterious circumstances and the police rule it an accident, the grizzled old-timer is convinced there's something terribly wrong. And as rumors resurface about the legendary lost treasure of Belle Star, he digs into the case that looks more and more like murder. With shifty characters circling the little community and a Cherokee fable of Bigfoot protecting the surrounding forest, Hayward vows to set a trap. But with the secret loot supposedly protected by a curse, he's not sure who--or what--they'll end up catching. Can the impromptu amateur sleuth sort out fact from fiction before he becomes the next victim of Oklahoma's weirdest crime spree? Treasure Kills is the first book in the quirky Legends of Tsalagee mystery series. If you like unconventional characters, twisted plotlines, and crackling dialogue, then you'll love Phil Truman's spirited yarn. <h2>Buy Treasure Kills to lift the lid off a deadly cursed tale today!</h2>

Treasure Kills: Legends of Tsalagee Book 1

Red Lands Outlaw: The Ballad of Henry Starr

Roots and Branches

This collection contains EIGHT episodes of the West of the Dead Line series.  1 - Bringing in Pike Cudgo 2 - Freed Men 3 - Runaway 4 - Redemption along the Red 5 - The Getaway of Cross-eyed Jack Dugan 6 - The Reluctant Posseman 7 - Dupery at Corncob Forks 8 - Last Will for an Outlaw  West of the Dead Line  The Dead Line, as it came to be called, was a railroad, the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas, cutting across the middle of Indian Territory. It ran straight south from Caldwell, Kansas to Fort Reno, I.T., then on down through the Cheyenne and Comanche and Kiowa lands, crossing the Red River into Bowie, Texas. It was a line on the map, a demarcation. West of it there was no law, only outlaws. On trails out there, notes would be put up on trees and posts, sort of reverse wanted posters, letting lawmen know they'd be killed if they continued their pursuits west of the Dead Line.  Throughout the 225 years of the U.S. Marshals Service, over 200 deputies have been killed in the line of duty. Of those, more than 120 lost their lives in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories between 1850 and Oklahoma statehood in 1907.  In the storied history of the American West, no place comes close to matching the dangers and mortality these federal officers faced doing their jobs. Their courage, resolve, and dedication to duty were beyond reproach... for the most part. Those who survived became titans in the legends of the West, particularly one man called Bass Reeves. These stories are fiction, but the encounters this lawman faced, and The Dead Line, were not.

West of the Dead Line

AWOC Westerns

2019 Will Rogers Medallion AwardHe’s been hot on an outlaw’s trail for months. But deep in Native American territory, he’s no longer sure who’s innocent and who’s a monster…
Quapaw tribal lands, new State of Oklahoma, 1910. Greenhorn Deputy U.S. Marshal Jubal Smoak knows he can either lay down the law or get stampeded. So after the gruesome murder of a young family, he relentlessly pursues the ruthless outlaw who gave him a bullet in the back. Trailing the man for months, he refuses to be put off the scent by foolish rumors of a mythical Native American monster.
Hunting his suspect through snow-covered trails, he learns the grisly string of deaths have also ravaged neighboring ranches. But when he gets a closer look at the mutilated carcasses and massive paw prints, he worries this case isn’t as cut and dried as he thought.
Can Smoak end the slaughter before more innocent lives are lost?
Dire Wolf of the Quapaw is the first book in the dark Jubal Smoak Western mystery series. If you like frontier settings, gritty characters, and Native American myths, then you’ll love Phil Truman’s twisted tale.
Buy Dire Wolf of the Quapaw to track down a butcher today!

Dire Wolf of the Quapaw: a Jubal Smoak Mystery (Jubal Smoak Mysteries)

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