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 [...]
Category Archives: Western
Book Review: The Raiders: Sons of Texas
March 10, 2010 – 1:10 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Book Review: The Fence
January 27, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a western story written about that big ranching family that has had the power and respect it always wanted but a chink in the armor results in a disappearance of these things and the death of the patriarch and his son. Everything is thrown up in the air. The sheriff has [...]
Book Review: Rainbow Rider
January 20, 2010 – 1:10 am
This is a short story written by Wayne D. Overholser about a small town marshal who had tamed his town but wouldn’t leave because he had fallen in love with the banker’s daughter. He wanted to marry her and prove that he wasn’t a Rainbow Rider. The pressure her aunt was placing on her [...]
Book Review: The Leather Slappers
January 13, 2010 – 1:10 am
Book Review: The Leather Slapper One story out of three.
This is a western short story in a trio of stories from the book Rainbow Rider by Wayne D. Overholster. This story is about a gunman who is working for a large land company working out of northern New Mexico and it moves to press [...]
Book Review: Soldiers Farewell
January 6, 2010 – 1:10 am
This western story is written by Johnny D. Boggs who has won a spur award for one of his western stories. This story was interesting but I had a hard time getting involved while reading it. The style that it was written, made it hard to get into the flow of the story. [...]
