The Cherokee Trail By Louis L’Amour The ravages of the Civil hit a family hard by wiping out their home in the East then the killing of the husband after they are in the West. This western story happened in several ways over and over again before and after the Civil War. The families of [...]
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Book review: Over on the Dry Side
September 16, 2009 – 1:08 am
This is a western story highlighting the life of a western boy who is following his father from one spot to the next. They came upon a well-built cabin with a lone dead man on the front steps. Not an Indian killing, the remains of his clothing still covered the dried up flesh and bones. [...]
Book Review: The Quick and the Dead
September 9, 2009 – 1:08 am
This is a classic western story written by Louis L’Amour telling the tale of a college educated man, his wife and son as they push out into the west trying to set up a homestead around Cherry Creek. Colorado (Denver). In the opening of the story Duncan McKaskel has self-doubts about their move west. It [...]
Book Review: Ride to Hell’s Gate
September 2, 2009 – 1:08 am
This western story written by Ralph Cotton, unfolds in a dusty town south of the Rio Grande River. Lawrence Shaw, the fastest gun alive, is standing up, too drunk to draw a gun in the middle of a gunfight. The body of this gunman has soaked up the liquor to shut off the pain [...]
Book Review: The Open Range Men
August 26, 2009 – 1:08 am
I liked the movie so much that I searched out the book, written by Lauran Paine. This western novel was the premise for the movie Open Range. The movie is what attracted me originally to the book. The book was a quick read for me and I enjoyed hearing new terms and seeing the [...]
Book Review: The Chili Queen
August 19, 2009 – 1:08 am
The story is a western, written by a gifted writer who spins the tale through many twists and turns. The story begins unsuspectingly on a train from Kansas City to Nalgits, New Mexico. The Madam of the Chili Queen, Addie, shares a seat with Emma an old maid who is an apparent mail order bride [...]
Book Review: The Searchers
August 12, 2009 – 1:08 am
The Searchers as a novel ranking among the top of all westerns. The author Alan LeMay placed his intensity of words into the vivid and stark images of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. His dialogue has the reality of the time and the flavor of the people, caught up in the things that were happening, [...]
Book Review: Deadly Road to Yuma-Blood Bond Series
August 5, 2009 – 1:08 am
William W Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone continues a series of western stories with Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves getting involved in all manner of western troubles. This series story gets the two blood brothers involved in the capture and transporting of a notorious gang leader, Preacher Joshua Shade. The happenings that drive the story [...]
Book Review: Bugles in the Afternoon
July 29, 2009 – 1:08 am
The author Ernest Haycox was a critical Western history buff. This story was the first of his works published in The Saturday Evening Post. He died in 1950 at the age of 51. This is a story within a story. The beginning introduces you to two of the main characters as the travel by train, [...]
Book Review: Shane
July 22, 2009 – 1:08 am
Shane by Jack Schaefer This book was adapted to a movie by the same name. This is a reread for me. I first read the book in the early fifties and I was greatly enamored by any story about the west. I was looking for cowboys and gunfighters at the time. I did not remember [...]
