Some women are destined to break men's hearts,
others are destined to break men's balls. Rebecca Caldwell gets to do her fair
share of both in E.J. Hunter's notoriously revolting western series. Swearing
vengeance on the men who done her wrong, the part Sioux, part White heroine
isn't one to mince words "I want to kill each and everyone of them myself,
I want to cut off their balls and shove them down their throats. I want to set
fires on their bellies and listen to their screams as they die".
As this is an early entry in the White Squaw
series, Rebecca's main quarry is still her Uncle Ezekial, the man who sold
Rebecca into slavery, and Bitter Creek Jake Tulley, the leader of the Outlaw
gang that her Uncle is a member of. Rebecca rides alongside Brett Baylor aka
Lone Wolf, a white man who spent ten years living as a Crow brave and has now
turned his back on the white man's culture. Lone Wolf's real ethnicity however
means that he can blend back into white society if he and Rebecca's mission
dictates it.
Buckskin Bombshell follows the same pattern as
pretty much all the White Squaw series. Rebecca pursues some badmen who leave a
trail of rape and murder in their wake...gets short shrift from the law on
account of her being a woman and having Indian blood in her...wastes a few
secondary goons only for the main villains to usually give her the slip at the
end of the book...necessitating further White Squaw books in which the exact
same thing happens again. There's also lots of sex along the trail, with
Rebecca going through several sexual partners per book. The only exception
being Lone Wolf, who tortures himself by taking a strict vow of celibacy.
Buckskin Bombshell is notably big on fellatio, with Rebecca portrayed as the
Old West's equivalent of Linda Lovelace. Her advanced knowledge of oral sex
techniques having been drilled into her by her abusive former husband. In
another feather to her Indian headband, we discover that Rebecca is able to hum
a tune while going down on a guy "with lips and flying tongue, she worked
on his fat cock while her body vibrated with suppressed desire and she hummed a
pleasing Sioux love song".
The simplistic plot of Buckskin Bombshell sees
Rebecca tracking down her Uncle Ezekial to an outlaw town where she hopes to
finally geld him. Elsewhere young prostitutes, who've been kidnapped by Tulley,
are forced to work in Ezekial's brothel 'The Bloody Gash' named for obvious
reasons. In order to infiltrate a town full of raping wrong ‘uns, Rebecca has
to perversely pass herself off as a sex crazed young boy "I've been
wettin' my pecker since I was eleven". While US Marshal Rex Taylor,
Rebecca's main love interest in this book, adopts the identity of Slim
Garfield, an outlaw he'd personally slain. Only for Rex to be asked to literally
prove his manhood to others in order to pass as the big dicked outlaw
"Slim's supposed to have a cock that hangs down to his knees. You reckon
you could show that much".
The White Squaw series is strong meat both in
terms of sex, which is written on the level of hardcore pornography, and
violence, which is on par with a splatterpunk novel. Heads are sliced into with
tomahawks, balls cut off, entrails yanked out of people and limbs blown off. In
short, you'd have to be as think skinned as a cigar store Indian not to be
shocked by these books. One booktuber had planned to cover the entire 24 book
long White Squaw series over yonder on YouTube, complete with Joe Bob Briggs
style Drive-In Totals of each book's carnage count. Only to throw in the towel
after a few entries. The unsettling aspect to the series- namely E.J. Hunter's
fixation on child abuse- means these books don't really lend themselves well to
Joe Bob type raucous, good time curation...there is too much 'Nonce-Fu' going
on in these books for that.
At its mildest, the book features a young boy- who
Hunter seems keen to describe as 'naked to the waist and barefoot' being
violently slapped into unconsciousness and left in a dung heap. At its worst,
the book establishes the villainy of Tulley's men by having them gang rape and
butcher a young Native American girl called Shee-nah-ah. The first of three
rapes in the book, all of which are described in an increasingly gloating
fashion. While one of Jake's men dies at Rebecca's hands while regretting that
he didn't take the opportunity to rape her while she was underage.
It is difficult to be around a White Squaw book
for long without finding yourself asking questions like 'just what was wrong
with this author', 'did he spend his spare time sniffing the seats of young
girls' bicycles' and 'just who was the man behind the E.J. Hunter pen name'.
Several online sources have pointed to Hunter being a pseudonym for Mark Kelly
Roberts, who wrote numerous entries in 'The Penetrator' series of Men's
Adventure books. Such is the morally suspect nature of the White Squaw series,
you wouldn't want to point the finger at an innocent party, but all the
evidence does appear to suggest that Roberts and E.J. Hunter were one in the
same. The Penetrator series was a joint effort, with Roberts writing the odd
numbered entries and another author, Chet Cunningham, writing the even numbered
ones. Although that entire series is credited to the pen name 'Lionel Derrick',
the odd entries contain a 'special acknowledgement to Mark K. Roberts' and the
even ones 'special acknowledgement to Chet Cunningham'. Buckskin Bombshell
continues this trend with its 'special acknowledgement to Mark K. Roberts'
credit, indicating this was the publisher's coded way of crediting the real
author. While I've yet to read any of The Penetrator books, they do appear to
share some themes with the White Squaw series, namely a part White, part Indian
protagonist and a knowledge of Native American culture that appears to hold up
under close scrutiny for once. Going by the reviews of The Penetrator books on
the glorious trash blog, the author's other specialist subject raises its ugly
head in that series a couple of times too. The Penetrator #41: Hell's Hostages
features an 'explicit flashback detailing Katrina's rape...at age 11' while in
The Penetrator #43: Rampage in Rio 'a fat Nazi molests one of the captured
children'. All of which sounds like E.J. Hunter up to his usual tricks.
Still to give credit where it is due, Hunter was a
writer of some talent. The White Squaw books feel on the money in terms of
period authenticity, are fast paced and ultra violent... I've yet to encounter
a dud in the entire series. The books could have easily withstood losing their
deviant aspect, yet when it comes to inappropriately writing about children,
Hunter unfortunately seems like a man possessed.
Roberts' entries in The Penetrator series are said
to be right leaning creations and there is spillover evidence of that in the
White Squaw series. Rex Taylor has no time for chicken livered types who want
to do away with the death penalty, spitting out contempt for "all the
spineless, the weak willed and the cowardly, who would rather try to work out
some kind of accommodation with the predators in our world". Tough, manly
talk that has Rebecca puckering her lips and getting ready to hum another
pleasing Sioux love song. As a lawman though, Rex insists on playing by the
book, putting him at odds with Rebecca's growing need to take an eye for an
eye. Rex's stance sending Rebecca off on some soul searching about whether her
lust for revenge could be robbing her of her humanity. A reoccurring theme
throughout the series. The politics of the White Squaw series are a little more
complex than they first appear. Hunter doesn't quite fit the mold of your
typical conservative author, given the series' sexual excess and highlighting
of the injustices faced by Native Americans. There's also a surprisingly
passionate outburst of feminism here, caused by Rex refusing to deputize
Rebecca on account her being a woman. A decision that leaves Rebecca fuming
"How dare he! A new form of passion flared her nostrils and set her heart
to racing. Only a woman! Only an object to possess and to place aside on a
shelf like some delicate keepsake of precious china! Damn him!".
Less anyone think that Hunter was some chicken
livered liberal though, the White Squaw series does seek to distance itself
from the inherent anti-whiteness of the revisionist western genre. Not all the
whites who Rebecca encounters turn out to be bigots or hostile towards her. At
one point in Buckskin Bombshell, Rebecca jumps to the defense of white men
telling Shee-nah-ah that it is unfair to judge all of them on the actions of
Tulley and his men "not all whites are like this. Kiyuksa...they break their
own customs". Although as Rebecca tells Shee-nah-ah this while Shee-nah-ah
dies in a pool of her own blood and the men's semen, Rebecca's words were
probably cold comfort there.
Buckskin Bombshell also teaches us that the term
'White Squaw' is actually highly offensive to Rebecca. Her preferred term, and
the one she's referred to by Native American characters being 'White Robe
Girl'. Of course this didn't stop Hunter from going with the offending, but
much more catchier White Squaw as the series title, after all sensitivity was
never high on his list of priorities.
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