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 [...]
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Book Review: The Leather Slappers
January 13, 2010 – 1:10 am
Book Review: Table Rock
December 30, 2009 – 1:09 am
This western story written by Les Savage Jr. was written in the late fifties and was at the time considered to far from the accepted model of western books. The Author died and his agent felt that it should not be published in the form I read it in. The agent supplied a [...]
Book Review: The Hart Brand
December 23, 2009 – 1:09 am
This western story is written by Johnny D. Boggs a spur award – winning author. The story is set in the New Mexico Territory beginning in the fourteenth year of young Caleb Hart. He would be sent by his parents over twelve hundred miles to work for his uncle, Captain Frank Hart, on [...]
Book Review: Bitter Wind
December 16, 2009 – 1:09 am
This western by spur award winning author Wayne D. Overholser tells a story of the lives of two men who were put together through strange happenings but then fell apart with the search for there own dreams. This story highlights the thought that we sometimes do not really want what we are vigorously chasing. [...]
Book Review: Hard Luck
December 9, 2009 – 1:09 am
Book Review: Hard Luck
This story written by Frederic Bean is a western tale about a cowboy who is down on his luck as he pushes through to El Paso. Dan Willis has heard that there are high-paying cowboy job in the New Mexico Territory. Arriving in Texas he is broke and near starvation. [...]
Book Review: Laughing Girl Creek
December 2, 2009 – 1:09 am
The western story written by Kent Conwell is the tale of E.J. Colter who liked life simple and easy. This was the way it was for him until the day this tough rancher was surrounded by three children, two boys and a young girl. They were the children of his brother that he [...]
Book Review: Wild Horse Gorge
November 25, 2009 – 1:09 am
This story by Duncan Ross is based around the maturing of a young eastern man as he is thrown into the jaws of western violence. Washington “Wash” Buchanan is heading for Wyoming and the ranch of his grandfather. When he arrives he find out that his grandfather has been murdered and nothing is [...]
Book Review: Raiders of the Valley
November 18, 2009 – 1:09 am
This western short story written by Tom Curry is about a land grab in the Salinas Valley of California. An outsider, Manfred Von Wohl, who was a Prussian immigrant to California, targeted the Californians who settled the land and built beautiful rancheros.
The bad things happen early and persist through the book. The first [...]
Book Review: Bendigo Shafter
November 11, 2009 – 1:09 am
This book is one of Louis L’Amour’s stories about how a young man comes into manhood on his journey into the early west. This story shows the spirit of the pioneers who moved west to establish new towns and in the intervening time placing their imprint on the country around them.
This story is about [...]
Book Review: The Californios
October 28, 2009 – 1:09 am
The story by Louis L’Amour highlights the people on the land and they’re easy going ways and they’re laid back attitude. These traits were severely tested when unscrupulous men come from the East and loaned money, using ranches as collateral. The interest was high and the men on the land did not understand [...]
