How can a bounty hunter ever be on the right side of the law? The story written by Ray Hogan has post war brothers struggling to survive in a one-horse town. Frank Garret took the course of bounty hunter because the skills he learned in the Civil War proved to be the most prosperous vehicle [...]
Category Archives: Western
Book Review: Cold Deck Hot Lead
December 21, 2011 – 1:11 am
Is there such a thing as a cardsharp who has a conscience? In this western story Frank Derringer is that individual. The story opens up as Frank arrives in the crooked town of Tribune, Kansas attempting to even out a score. His friend was cheated out of money that he had worked hard for. Cheating [...]
Book Review: Dodge City
December 14, 2011 – 1:11 am
From the back cover of the book the story is condensed to these few short sentence: “Between the Arkansas River and the Santa Fe Railroad was the Gateway to the west. The cattle trail from Texas to Kansas was long, hot, and dangerous. And by the time cowboys got there, they had the money and [...]
Book Review: The Territory
December 7, 2011 – 1:11 am
Well here I go moving away from the western stories that have always been my mainstay. This story won an award, The Tony Hillerman Prize. I read the story and felt that even though it was out of my designated time frame it did justify a review. This southwestern tale is a mystery written by [...]
Book Review: Deadwood
November 30, 2011 – 1:11 am
When you are famous specifically as a man hunter and killer of men you develop a group of people who would like to see you gone from this life. They wish you dead and someone has Luke Starbuck targeted for that fatal trip. Having accepted a job to find a way into the infamous Wyoming [...]
Book Review: Manhunter
November 23, 2011 – 1:11 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
