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. Talking [...]
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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 had not [...]
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 being done [...]
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 person [...]
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 these tactics [...]
Book Review: The Square Shooter
October 21, 2009 – 1:08 am
This story by Walt Coburn is quick and enjoyable to read. A young man named Boone learned that Jawbone Smith was not his father and this bit of information turned his known world back upon it’s self. The boy Boone stood up and declared the whipping that he had endured would end and he began [...]
Book Review: Once They Wore The Gray
October 14, 2009 – 1:09 am
This story by Johnny D. Boggs is a western set in the time of the Civil War. The story revolves around “Galvanized Yankees” the rebels that chose to kill Indians instead of dieing in prison. They would protect wagon trains and freight wagons on the Santa Fe Trail and help regain their inner self worth. [...]
Book Review: Rivers West
October 7, 2009 – 1:08 am
By Louis L’Amour This is a story about the movement west during a time when all was new and many men hungered for the power and wealth of the western land. The author begins the story with the mystery of a swamp and a young traveler going to the western rivers to ply his trade [...]
Book Review: The Sea of Grass
September 30, 2009 – 1:08 am
The author Conrad Richter uses his unique skills to place the reader in the time and setting of his story. This is a western story told over an extended period of time. The story is drawn from many people’s lives and their history in New Mexico. The story gives me the feeling of the [...]
