This is the middle volume of trilogy about two brothers that went to Texas and survived during a time of conflict and strife in the Texas owned and controlled by Mexico. The
Main characters are brothers. They are like two peas out of the same pod with very minor differences except for the major [...]
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Book Review: The Raiders: Sons of Texas
March 10, 2010 – 1:10 am
Movie Review: Civil War II A Bloody Affair 1862
March 6, 2010 – 1:10 am
This second disc in two parts highlights the year 1862. The introduction of the Income Tax and the Inventions for making war show casing the Gatling Gun. This year highlights the fact that the weapons have surged far ahead of military tactics. General McClellan is in charge of the Union army but [...]
Book Review: Trail Hand
March 3, 2010 – 1:10 am
This western is a story about a traveling cowhand, Owen that is instantly enamored by a ranch owner’s daughter, Rosa, as he is attempting to be hired. The ranch is where every thing begins and it is south of the Mexican border. He is hired on as a scout to lead the trail [...]
Movie Review: PBS Documentary The Civil War Part 1
February 27, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a multiple part documentary movie series on the Civil War by Ken Burns. The coverage is from how the Civil War began to the end of the war. Part one is geared around what happened to get this scenario moving in such a direction and to cause so much mayhem. [...]
Book Review: The Smoky Hill
February 24, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is book two written by Don Coldsmith in a series of three books written by different authors. The book is about the western end of Kansas River called the Smoky Hill River. The book is divided into three parts. Part one is about the initial exploration and mapping of the river [...]
Movie Review: The Ox-Bow Incident
February 20, 2010 – 1:10 am
This movie is adapted from the novel of Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s by the same name. This movie is a tense drama highlighting the dangers inherent in the nature of man. The vision is that of a mob mentality that can and will replace reason.
Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan portray cowboys new into [...]
Book Review: The Trail up Old Arrowhead
February 17, 2010 – 1:10 am
Book Review: The Trail up Old Arrowhead
This story is a conclusion to an installment story of two parts that appeared in Five Stat Westerns. The story is about a gentle giant who sees deeply into the human soul. Bull Hunter is this man and he becomes romantically intertwined with a ranch owner’s daughter [...]
Book Review: The Finding of Jeremey
February 10, 2010 – 1:10 am
The book is a short western story written by Frederick Faust under the name of Max Brand. This story is about an eastern young man who is challenged by a woman to grow some backbone. She told him he could get this backbone by going west and being more like the men in [...]
Movie Review: Conagher
February 6, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a western movie from a Louis L’Amour story by the same title. The story revolves around the lives of two people of the west. We have a recently widowed Evie Teale, played by Katherine Ross, who is sticking to the land her husband brought her to. He then road [...]
Book Review: Werewolf
February 3, 2010 – 1:10 am
Yes this is a western story written by Max Brand from the trio collection book Men Beyond the Law. The main character of this story Christopher Royal is not beyond the law but the youngest brother of four. He is afraid that he is a coward because he does not want to fight [...]
