This book is part of a western series highlighting the activities of the detective and man killer called Luke Starbuck. This story by Matt Braun targets the gang of bank and train robbers headed by the cold-blooded killer and confederate raider Jesse James. It was great to have a wealth banker wanting the James-Younger gang [...]
Category Archives: Book Review
Book Review: The Indian Fighter’s Return
November 16, 2011 – 1:11 am
This is a western story with a modern twist. What do you do when the job you held and trained for goes away because all the Indians are now on a reservation or peaceful? The obvious new job would be a town Marshall. This is where the story begins and the fly in the cream [...]
Book Review: Marshall of Medicine Lodge
November 9, 2011 – 1:11 am
This is a new author for me, Stan Lynde, and the book is an interestingly written exhibit of western story telling. The story begins with the U.S. Marshall for the state of Montana sending; Merlin Fanshaw to help the town Marshall in Medicine Lodge a town in the middle of the Crow Reservation. The need [...]
Book Review: Westward of the Law
November 2, 2011 – 1:11 am
In the old west, ranchers suffered from the plague of rustlers so to combat this scourge across the land. Ranchers hired stock detectives, they were charged to catch and put to justice these men who chose to take stock from the hard working ranches in a particular area. Newt Bascom and Sam Jordan were two [...]
Book Review: South by Southwest
October 26, 2011 – 1:11 am
This western story begins in the Civil War and travels into the time shortly after the surrender of Lee at a courthouse in northern Virginia. The only way to get out of the prisoner of war stockade in Florence was to die. Men were dieing right and left with out food and shelter the cemetery [...]
Book Review: The Switchback Trail
October 19, 2011 – 1:11 am
This book written by Terrell L Bowers is a western with a little bit of romance thrown in to keep the reader on his toes. Cullen Lomax is taking a vacation from what he really does but the handy man job for the Melbourne ranch is much more complicated than he originally thought it would [...]
Book Review: Rider on the Buckskin
October 12, 2011 – 1:11 am
This is a new author for me, Peter Dawson, and I was pleased by his effort. The story circles around Frank Rivers a pardoned murderer. After spending four years in the state penitentiary he was exonerated. His alibi witness was finally uncovered and the truth about where he was at the time of the murder [...]
Book Review: A Town Called Fury: Redemption
October 5, 2011 – 1:11 am
This is a western story written by William W. Johnstone with the able assistance of J.A. Johnstone there fourth book together . This tale is about a town and the marshal who helped forge and protect it even though he is young. He is able to help claim this piece of ground and wrestle it [...]
Audio Book Review: Dance Hall of the Dead
September 28, 2011 – 1:11 am
The story is by Tony Hillerman and performed by George Guidall. This is a mystery set in the southwest. The main character is Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navaho Tribal Police. Murder is the axe that swings and two Native American boys are the victims of the mayhem. One boy is a Zuni, Ernesto Cota, [...]
Book Review: The Deadwood Trail
September 21, 2011 – 1:11 am
This is a book thirteen written by Ralph Compton in a series on Trail Drives. Two separate ranches have heard the news that gold is discovered in the Black Hills. The miners are starving for beef and winter is coming. Nelson Story from Montana and his ranch are sending horses to the Army and Nelson [...]
