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 [...]
Category Archives: Book Review
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 [...]
Book Review: Deadwood Gulch
September 14, 2011 – 1:11 am
This is a new story involving two characters that have been previously written about in a book called “Sidewinders”. The two characters are Scratch Morton and Bo Creel, they are drifting across the western landscape getting into various adventures risking their lives on many occasions. William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone collaborated on this western [...]
Book Review: Massacre of Eagles
September 6, 2011 – 1:11 am
This is unusual but I have here a western story that disappointed me. The story has three man characters Falcon MacCallister, Buffalo Bill Cody and Means to His Horses a Cheyenne Chief. Being such a fan of all western writings I am struggling with the reason why this story failed to win me over. The [...]
Book Review: The Last Gunfight
August 31, 2011 – 1:11 am
I have always wondered why the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone Arizona was such a big and publicized clash. In this book by Jeff Guinn he highlights the days leading up to and threw the event that went on to change the western landscape into a picture that I could see and better [...]
Book Review: Kinch Riley
August 24, 2011 – 1:11 am
Matt Braun takes a true historical happening and generates a real western story that will captivate the reader. How can I keep telling you that this author has grasped the essence of western stories that have happened all across the western landscape? This story begins with Mike McCluskie showing up in Newton Kansas as railroad [...]
Book Review: Indian Territory
August 17, 2011 – 1:11 am
This classic western story as told by Matt Braun continues to make him famous. The main character is John Ryan who takes a job with the “Katy” railroad as they prepare to cross Indian Territory. John is a gun for hire and he assumes that he will be working on maintaining law and order. The [...]
